Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 2 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 3 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 4 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 5 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |
| 6 | We were down at the main road . |
| 7 | In particular , the Home-Grown Cereals Authority reports exports of wheat 30 per cent were down on the previous harvest — mostly due to dearer prices . |
| 8 | The sharply lower rhodium price depressed revenues in the chemicals and refining business and profits for the year were down on the previous period . |
| 9 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 10 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 11 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 12 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 13 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 14 | She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen . |
| 15 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 16 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 17 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 18 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 19 | I thought you were up with the latest fashions . |
| 20 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 21 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 22 | We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline . |
| 23 | Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names . |
| 24 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |
| 25 | Estates like ours were out on the urban edge , the new boundary between town and country . |
| 26 | In fact , the coach — drawn by two grey horses — was only called into service once the couple were out of the public gaze . |
| 27 | Before they were out of the English channel a severe storm washed a man overboard and left Mrs Dutton so ill she had to be taken ashore in a pilot boat when the storm dropped . |
| 28 | Down there in the dunes , they were out of the offshore breeze and out of the sun . |
| 29 | Both Benjamin and I wisely kept our mouths shut until we were out of the main hall . |
| 30 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |