Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett suddenly realised he was in the corner of the hall . |
| 2 | In the bucket in the cupboard Barry the Time Sprout woke suddenly to find he was in the wrong chapter . |
| 3 | Oxford the red hot favourites have made 3 changes to their lineup in the run up to this year 's race and Sam was only told she was in the boat at the weekend . |
| 4 | Not outstanding success , for I was still missing nine out of ten bites , hut enough to suggest I was on the right track . |
| 5 | Yet the polls show that most voters want inflation stopped , and the main opposition , the Workers ' party , while formally denouncing the plan as ‘ authoritarian , demagogic , privatising and favourable to foreign capital ’ , may merely wish it were in a position to do likewise . |
| 6 | That might sound a ludicrous attempt to escape paying for a colour TV licence , but he obviously thought it was worth a try . |
| 7 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |
| 8 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 9 | The guy was probably dead when we tipped him into the shaft — we just assumed he was at the time though the older I got the less sure of that I was — but even if was n't , he must have been killed when he hit the bottom ; it 's thirty metres at least . |
| 10 | When he did finally speak it was with a studied calm to smother his irritation . |
| 11 | When she did finally speak it was in a whisper . |
| 12 | Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’ |
| 13 | He was just like he was in the very early days ; he asked us to come out to his house and have dinner . |
| 14 | I somehow thought I was in a state of full ordeal readiness . |
| 15 | In a taped interview which was played to the jury , Paul said : ‘ I just thought it was like a little tap on the head and that he would be all right . |
| 16 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |
| 17 | Of course , it was useful to both Romania and China to let Moscow know how deeply involved they were with the Americans , because such knowledge could deter Moscow from interfering in their internal affairs . |
| 18 | The greatest compliment Mark Knopfler ever paid me was in a magazine when he was asked to list the members of Dire straits . |
| 19 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 20 | I trekked the length and breadth of Charing Cross Road and the surrounding area when I bought mine in ‘ 68 , and I still remember it was in a different league to everything else , although it crept into the £50 plus bracket , rather than the £40 I had saved . |
| 21 | The trouble with Ben was , he still thought he was in the police force and was constantly leaving scribbled messages about procedures for patrolling the yard and checking the padlocks and bolts . |
| 22 | Even if displaced through three time zones eastwards , it would still infer it was over the Atlantic , and home in the wrong direction . |
| 23 | ‘ In fact I always thought he was in the DTI . |
| 24 | It was a strange action by someone totally convinced he was in the right . |
| 25 | Lunch-hour came and went , but with Merrill 's stomach still churning she was in no mood to eat . |
| 26 | ‘ You always said it was in the trunk , gran . |
| 27 | Oliver had not loaded their things into it , but she still hoped he was in the flat rather than the café . |
| 28 | The quality of workmanship is what you 'd expect on an instrument costing just under thirteen hundred pounds and even if it was n't a limited edition I 'd still say it was worth the money . |
| 29 | He would n't miss her right away , and even if he looked up and saw the empty stool he 'd probably assume she was inside the hut . |
| 30 | Ok roger I was at the Fav and I guess you were but there were two guys fitting your description ( I never knew that sheepskins were so popular ! ) |