Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills . |
| 2 | Well the next morning I was up at the top gate on picket and erm came with his van and he he spelted up through and the lads jumped one side well , I 'm nearly sixty five I did n't jump so quickly . |
| 3 | But I was up against a big , strong lad called Eddie Evans in the Canada game and that was very hard work . |
| 4 | Yeah , I know th th th there 's three floors of it and I was , I was on like the bottom floor so |
| 5 | I enrolled for ‘ Art for Beginners ’ and later went down to the centre where the tutor had obtained a model for us from whom to do quick sketches — so I was in at the deep end . |
| 6 | Most of the Labour front bench , including Neil Kinnock , were in their places and the predictions were that I was in for a stormy time . |
| 7 | Too soon , I was out on the other side , dazzled , like a man leaving a cinema in the afternoon . |
| 8 | So so really you 've got er I was out on the medical practices so I know how successful that can be . |
| 9 | Yet she would have been upstairs with the old man before I was out of the moonlit yard . |
| 10 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 11 | I thought I was off on the usual , rather tedious type of assignment ! |
| 12 | Ten minutes later I was down on the private beach . |
| 13 | The hour winged past and it seemed no time at all before I was back on the top road waiting in the gathering darkness for the Scarborough bus . |
| 14 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 15 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 16 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 17 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 18 | I thought you were up with the latest fashions . |
| 19 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 20 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 21 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 22 | ‘ She was up for the entire morning , and this afternoon she must rest . |
| 23 | Nutty thought she was on to a good idea and went home happily , taking over from her mother in the shop as she usually did while her mother started to get the tea . |
| 24 | Then a whoosh , and she was out in the painful , bright light . |
| 25 | Louisa arrived in time to hear this and to see , a moment later , the tears start to Frere 's eyes , then she was down beside the unconscious woman , holding her head . |
| 26 | All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side . |
| 27 | She was back in the other chair watching me , a curiously intent look on her face . |
| 28 | She was back in the abandoned warehouse . |
| 29 | She was back in the proper life . |
| 30 | Clare was told she was in for a long stay in bed , and Mother moved in a divan to sleep next to her . |