Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 2 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 3 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 4 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 5 | But in the country as a whole , the number of skiers was down for the third year running , and was no higher than 12 years ago ( see chart on next page ) . |
| 6 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 7 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 8 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |
| 9 | It was back to the 2nd XI after that , but the memory will tingle for a while yet . |
| 10 | he was back with a second midway through the first half … and that was that … 2-0 … |
| 11 | But in an hour , with the bridge awash , Harriet was back with the second cub . |