Example sentences of "[was/were] [pron] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , now : were you at home with the children all evening ? |
| 2 | The 141 totals achieved by Page and Maguire were one under par for the 36 holes , Page managing a 69 before lunch and Maguire following with a 69 . |
| 3 | Nor were they in control of the young hooligans of the Bogside or the Paisleyite counter-demonstrators . |
| 4 | Many of today 's parents were themselves at school in the 1960s , the height of the ‘ horticultural ’ era of education . |
| 5 | ‘ There was nothing but love in the teaching of the Aten , ’ said Huy quietly . |
| 6 | The room was tidy enough , after a fashion , but there was nothing of value on the mantelpiece and not one stick of furniture that would n't have been better employed on a bonfire . |
| 7 | There was nothing on contraception in the Masterpiece but new information from the radical proponents of birth control was available to the working class from the 1820s onwards , much of it aimed at dissuading women from having abortions . |
| 8 | There was plenty of land around the site which would allow easy expansion when that became necessary ; , |
| 9 | It was a six-man heat , so there was plenty of scope for the wily strategist . |
| 10 | In all this there was plenty of scope for an awareness and endurance of contradiction . |
| 11 | There was plenty of scandal about the Australian and Canadian troops being out with other men 's wives or , worse , being seen in doorways or entries with them while the blackout was on . |
| 12 | CLOWNING ABOUT — there was plenty of fun during the staff open day . |
| 13 | Even before the debate got underway in the council chamber there was plenty of discussion on the subject outside : |
| 14 | As it was Friday night , nearing the end of our tour of duty , there was plenty of traffic on the road as people came home from pubs and dances . |
| 15 | There was plenty of room on the course and it was relatively easy to lengthen it enough to test the professionals . |
| 16 | There was plenty of cash in the bank . |
| 17 | ‘ There was plenty of flak over the target area , and I kept looking at my useless chute , yet at the same time it was treated as a huge joke by us all , with the rest of the crew saying that no way was I going down with any of them if need be ! |
| 18 | There was plenty of game in the desert if you looked . |
| 19 | The Australian professional took 7–103 , bringing his tally of league wickets to 35 and , although the home side made 187–8 , there was plenty of time for the Middlesbrough batsmen to knock off the runs . |
| 20 | I did the business with my camera , now there was plenty of light with the barn doors open , and was in the process of replacing the tarpaulin when the alarm bells went off and scared the hell out of me for the second time in five minutes . |
| 21 | Yet although Haydon mocked his ‘ passionate timidity ’ there was plenty of action in the amatory field — no ambiguity there , even if his style fell short ofByronic . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps there was somebody on lookout in a car or something . |
| 23 | Karadjordje 's dictatorial tendencies came into conflict with the older tradition of peasant democracy , which was itself in conflict with the patriarchal structure of Serbian village life . |
| 24 | The term ‘ regionalism ’ was itself in vogue in a number of related disciplines , particularly geography and sociology . |
| 25 | This was something of bonus for the Williams since it had learned next to nothing during practice thanks to niggling problems associated with a new car . |
| 26 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 27 | It was , for all that , quite a struggle for Ballesteros before he at last got his game together over the closing holes for a halfway total of 143 , two ahead of Olazabal , who was one over par for the 36 holes . |
| 28 | The elliptical phraseology of the law , amounting in places to ambiguity , obscures the cut-on point for gentility , if indeed there was one in vew of the presence in the musters and subsidy rolls of a not inconsiderable number of gentlemen of extremely limited means . |
| 29 | Robert Green 's card of 1752 is more explicit , leaving nothing to chance ; but he had a reason , for not only was he in business as a furnishing undertaker but also provided a wholesale service to the trade in general . |
| 30 | His aunt and her daughter stayed to hear if there was anything of interest in the will which she had left in a drawer , but they went disappointed , giving Tim a couple of moist hugs on their way out . |