Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember we cleaned it all up , and it was right on the boundary wall between property and . |
| 2 | It was right outside the Rose Bowl , and I had the lease and everything in my briefcase . ’ |
| 3 | He was rather like a 12-inch gun with no gunlayer ; he always turned up to meetings late and disoriented , although he had a middle-aged secretary who used to follow him about with his diary and try to keep him in line . |
| 4 | It was rather like a mid-West movie , as pleasant as that . |
| 5 | Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard . |
| 6 | Then it was on to the Salvation Army old people 's home where one resident remarked : ‘ How beautiful you are . |
| 7 | For the next picture , it was on with the stage makeup and into something a little more outrageous — Betty 's turn , in other words . |
| 8 | The television was on in the living room . |
| 9 | When I first went in , I was on like an assessment unit . |
| 10 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 11 | Mr Taylor said he had no forwarding address for the woman , but knew she was somewhere in the London area . |
| 12 | My parents could only afford to give me some small change on Sundays , but it was enough for a cinema ticket and an ice cream . |
| 13 | This was enough for the Home Secretary to send the case back for a fourth hearing to the Court of Appeal , with the recommendation that they summon Mathews as a witness to test his credibility . |
| 14 | ( According to some opposition-inspired reports he had fled the country and was in hiding , while according to others he was merely on a business trip . ) |
| 15 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 16 | They three boys — and Sara — was all brought up at Trebyan and they was all at the village school . |
| 17 | It helped enormously that he also happened to enjoy affairs with women , and that when he was acting on stage , his sexual proclivities were not such a problem as he was less in the public eye . |
| 18 | So this person thought he was terribly towards the electricity board , and I needed to get through in an emergency , and you ca n't . |
| 19 | ‘ And you think Parks was in on the Livesey case too ? ’ |
| 20 | I 've got a lot of interesting stuff-after all , I was in on the ground floor . |
| 21 | We was together at the village concert . |
| 22 | She was constantly at the telex machine , her old wartime training coming into its own , and was more adept than those the company hired as telex operators . |
| 23 | Thereafter his war service was entirely as a staff officer . |
| 24 | It was down to the practice ground in the gloom for Jack and myself but I managed to get a message to Sally to meet me an hour later than planned . |
| 25 | I think I would have to give the biscuit to him because one day I was down at the bankruptcy court and I discovered that he had 130 petitions on the file and I do n't think mine reached 100 ! |
| 26 | But five minutes into the film he was as possessed as when he was down at the football stadium watching a match . |
| 27 | Their favourite walk was down across the waste ground along Deptford Creek . |
| 28 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 29 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 30 | ‘ I had some time off while I was working in Los Angeles and I was down by the hotel pool . |