Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were on in the funfairs on the prom |
| 2 | Every week they were out on the streets of Highgate or Chalk Farm preaching , and Eva belonged to the cadet 's singing brigade . |
| 3 | ‘ This was when you were out in the wilds of Oxfordshire , right ? ’ |
| 4 | With that settled , they were back by the outbuildings near the house when she again remembered her car and thought she had better find out where it was garaged before she again forgot to bring it up . |
| 5 | When both worked , it was down to the skills of the two drivers and there seemed very little to distinguish them . |
| 6 | Zak said Nell was along with the passengers in the reception area , and that he wanted to go and see how things were shaping . |
| 7 | She was off up the stairs without another word . |
| 8 | And then he was off up the stairs with Wilson , panting behind , trying to fathom the significance of his relief . |
| 9 | Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was |
| 10 | Mary was up on the fells with her flock of sheep and goats , she said , perhaps over Buttermere way or maybe towards Robinson . |
| 11 | Scotland was kilt-deep in it ; it was up to the lorry-axles on Shap , up to the bus-steps in London . |
| 12 | Bunting ( 1978 ) in more general terms disclaims this responsibility and states that with the introduction of high-yielding paddy it was to be expected there were social problems but it was up to the politicians to ‘ do something about it ’ . |
| 13 | He set barns on fire , was up before the magistrates for theft and by the time he was thirteen he was stealing cars . |
| 14 | So it was back to the hooks in the faith that something must turn up . |
| 15 | But as a model prisoner he was back on the streets within three years after remission for good behaviour . |
| 16 | She was back in the offices of the business services agency . |
| 17 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 18 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 19 | Darcy was out on the links in Jersey yesterday and unable to come to the phone , but a member of the team of architects working on the project dismisses fears that the site will be ruined . |