Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 2 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 3 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 4 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 5 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 6 | As they walked to the hotel car park across the road , two young art student types , thin girls with long black hair and western eyes , stopped and asked him if he could help them work their camera , they were out on an assignment and it would n't go at all , and Rory fiddled something on the side and gave it back and said : ‘ That should be it now , the poor ould thing should be in a museum ’ , and as they went away looked back at him , and back again . |
| 7 | Well everybody thought we 'd be out for a week or so , but we were out for a month or er more when these scabs started going back . |
| 8 | " Take these ; an annotated Gray 's Anatomy , some Freud — at least it 'll prove you were here for a reason if nothing else . " |
| 9 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 10 | they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar |
| 11 | The sentence was somewhere between a question and a statement . |
| 12 | ‘ Their first goal was down to a mistake and the second was so easy for them it defies belief . |
| 13 | The breakdown was only for an hour and a half the lorries turned up and the breakdown was happening . |
| 14 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 15 | Heaving over to one elbow just in time not to drown in her own effluent , Jezrael was so involved with her physical self that it was only after a moment that she noticed the base of one wall oozing forward to cover her vomit . |
| 16 | Nicky Henderson 's Mr Gossip justified favouritism and made a winning debut over fences in the second division of the Misletoe Novice Chase but it was only by a head that he got home from Bit Of A Clown , with Bronze Final a head away third . |
| 17 | ‘ In fact it was only by a miracle that my sister and I survived at all : we took shelter with our youngest brother in the Jama Masjid area . |
| 18 | But to be late again , even if it was only by an hour or so , was just the start she did n't want . |
| 19 | The deep voice was at once familiar and yet strange and Jenna was utterly at a loss as to how to answer . |
| 20 | The fighting was over within a minute and they were able to make their way down to the cells . |
| 21 | The whole incident was over within an hour and the patrol was able to return to their base . |
| 22 | ‘ And it was just like a miracle because no body , none whatsoever , got hurt during the whole operation . ’ |
| 23 | But of his courage , though it was not of a kind that Hotspur admired , there could be little doubt ; and of his ability and calculating detachment , none . |
| 24 | One horse had detached itself and ambled towards the line of protesters but it was not for a moment that Meredith realised , with a pang of dismay , that it was Blazer carrying Harriet . |
| 25 | In this labyrinth the Friar was not at a loss but strode on purposefully . |
| 26 | In contrast , the secular clerk , the clergyman who was not under a rule or monastic discipline , was often an inveterate wanderer . |
| 27 | It was not until a decade or so later , when the Junior adventure story was beginning to examine the nature of heroism more searchingly , that Richard Armstrong ranged beyond the frontiers of his documentary adventures into a world of greater hazards , a more exacting world for the writer to describe . |
| 28 | How , after such an accident , its limbs managed any speed at all was a miracle , but it was off at a pace that Marlin could n't hope to match . |
| 29 | Charles 's own inclination was always towards a pro-French and anti-Dutch policy , though marriages between the Stuart family and the ruling Dutch House of Orange slightly restrained him and by the 1670s most Englishmen were beginning to be a little worried by the increasing power of France . |
| 30 | He was always at a loss when people acted like this . |