Example sentences of "[adv] was [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The harvest I had seen gathered a few kilometres away was back on the stalk .
2 She was so worried and scared of me that I could n't reward her when she did something right and , obviously , telling her off was out of the question .
3 Then suddenly I had a phone call , which really was out of the blue because if anything I had been expecting a letter .
4 Schafer , who by then was back in the United States and running a military supply business called Minihawks in the Atlanta area .
5 The harvest had started , everyone else was out in the fields , afraid it would rain , and for the next few days Libby and George joined in , stooking and carrying sheaves which they could seldom get to balance .
6 Erm I I 'm speaking from recollection sir at having looked into this in the context of planning appeal which is now a little while ago , but it did strike me at the time that er there was a definite feeling that the agricultural issue was very strong protection of ag agricultural land throughout was a strong issue up to er the mid nineteen eighties and certainly was up to the time in late seventy nine early nineteen eighty and er therefore there was a feeling that Policy E three simply er was supplementary to those other policies .
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