Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the North West Division Two Deeside were also without a full squad but came fourth at Crewe and now lie sixth overall . |
| 2 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 3 | He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room . |
| 4 | In 1973 Kylie was off to the local school , Camberwell primary . |
| 5 | He stressed that GRE was back in the black due to significant improvement in its non-life insurance business , particularly in the UK . |
| 6 | There was no reply to the phone , but as we were going that way to spend the night at Sandspit , we called at the neighbours ’ and found that Pat was away for a few days . |
| 7 | MacLane was still on the running board , his arm wedged into the squashed wreck of the car . |
| 8 | Ellen was also in the winning team last year which will make it a hat-trick if the 1993 season brings her another win . |
| 9 | Dana was more like a human being than my agent . |
| 10 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 11 | The times spent in Cape Town were certainly among the happiest highlights of my cricketing travels . |
| 12 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 13 | Carole Swan was back in the Grand Hotel around midnight . |
| 14 | She saw with disappointment that Rupert Stonebird was not among the little group that Sophia was now bringing into the room . |
| 15 | But , come the morning , Ronni was in for a rude awakening . |
| 16 | Kubitsky was below on the main bay deck . |
| 17 | The only thing holding them back was the fact that the next available date to tour England was not until the mid-1930s . |
| 18 | Sam was going to a tutorial college , where the staff tended to keep a close eye on their pupils , being moderately well paid to do so , while Camille was still at a local comprehensive where the teachers no longer cared much about anything . |
| 19 | ‘ You have not enquired as to the size of the fortune , ’ Colonel Moore said , in a tone which suggested that Hope was somehow in the wrong for this negligence . |
| 20 | Where he differed from Darwin was mainly on the critical issue of evolution , i.e. , the proposition that one species could change over time into another species , but his arguments on these matters were by no means obscurantist or naive . |
| 21 | Fergus was also in the right field , which was literary theory . |
| 22 | After lunch , Graham Lloyd reached 34 before falling to Parsona , but Wasim Akram hit only five and Mike Matkinson was out for a lively 16 . |
| 23 | Rodney was not in the best of tempers because ( he kept saying ) he could n't see out of the rear window with that damned bicycle in the way . |
| 24 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 25 | Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names . |
| 26 | Now , the RD 's electronics is where things get a bit tricky , and probably where Gibson were ahead of the average bassist of the time . |
| 27 | After an even start Oxford led by quarter of a length at the mile but Cambridge were ahead by the same distance at Hammersmith Bridge . |
| 28 | BR and ASLEF were still at the old game and each other 's throats , with rebel train drivers complicating the whole thing . |
| 29 | Burke was not in the best of condition and had lost his fighting spirit because of his troubles with Byrne and O'Rourke . |
| 30 | Gedge agrees that Solowka was almost like a part-time member of the band for a while but feels Charman flatters himself to consider there was any kind of parity between them in terms of power . |