Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were up early the next morning at 06.00 to go up to the station to catch the 07.19 Leighton - Euston train , which is a semi-stopper , it took an hour to get there . |
| 2 | Oh , he was down here the other week , you know . |
| 3 | I do n't know our , our , very rare we 'll ring em John was down well the same day as she dropped that little potty off for our Kay |
| 4 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 5 | He was out there the other night hanging about a lot so . |
| 6 | It was so funny Fiona was saying that Brian was out there the other night and he said that , she said where 's Kathleen ? |
| 7 | It was around then the following formulation took hold : radical meanings required radical forms of musical expression . |
| 8 | Alright I can revise still in maths but it 's not the same cos when he was round here the other night he 's like in a way like the teacher . |
| 9 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |