Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was right out in the open and the wind was blowing towards us . |
| 2 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 3 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 4 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 5 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 6 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 7 | It was down round about the forty two , forty five horsepower mark . |
| 8 | Finding myself in the coal bunker at the back of the bungalow I did nothing till the morning of dawning when maximum light was to be utilised for a rather essential cold water wash under an outside tap , and I was soon back on the solid road remarking that the hedgerows ' newborn leaves utter great things . |
| 9 | But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley . |
| 10 | That he did not was largely down to an opening seven-frame blast from Parrott . |
| 11 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 12 | When Fagin left her , Nancy was already back in a drunken sleep , her head lying on the table once more . |
| 13 | It was just out of the blue really . |
| 14 | The leading British driver is Malcolm Wilson , whose Opel was just out of the top 10 last night in 11th place , two minutes ahead of Gwyndaf Evans in his Ford Sierra in 12th place . |
| 15 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 16 | Kasper was just back from an hour-long agonising on Swiss television about the disaster in store for the winter sports industry . |
| 17 | Michael Banks knew that The Hooded Owl was not up to the required standard . |
| 18 | Young Charlie — who was always up to no good as far as I could see — nevertheless had what Tata called ‘ a future ’ . |
| 19 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |
| 20 | Although fighting in Slovenia continued in early July , it was quickly over after a successful campaign of resistance by the well-organized Slovenian Territorial Defence Force against the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) . |
| 21 | He was also back to the daily pile of paperwork and would be closeted with secretaries for much of the day . |
| 22 | She made her way across the factory floor and it was when she was nearly back at the occupational health centre that she heard a whistle . |
| 23 | So it was partly out of an illogical sense of obligation that she began to read his book on Aurae Phiala . |
| 24 | If he was really up to no good the situation might have turned awkward — though as it happens he was perfectly civil , and I was n't nervous . ’ |
| 25 | The tide was far out over a wide plain of sand but you could see its many colours silvering towards those reaches where sky and horizon misted together . |
| 26 | He had been shunted into a side-line and was now out of the mainstream traffic for good . |
| 27 | Corinth could afford to be indifferent to the vengeance Athens took against Samos ; Megara was what mattered to Corinth , and Megara was now back in the Peloponnesian camp . |
| 28 | Anyway that thought decided me to make for the bedroom but I was late starting and had only just reached the top of the stairs when he was half-way up with the big brown teapot held in his pelting position . |
| 29 | By eight o'clock , when the first pair was due to tee off , the sun was well up in a clear sky . |
| 30 | He was well in with the new dynasty and very anxious to establish his good standing with the king . |