Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When both worked , it was down to the skills of the two drivers and there seemed very little to distinguish them . |
| 2 | Zak said Nell was along with the passengers in the reception area , and that he wanted to go and see how things were shaping . |
| 3 | She was off up the stairs without another word . |
| 4 | And then he was off up the stairs with Wilson , panting behind , trying to fathom the significance of his relief . |
| 5 | Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was |
| 6 | Mary was up on the fells with her flock of sheep and goats , she said , perhaps over Buttermere way or maybe towards Robinson . |
| 7 | Scotland was kilt-deep in it ; it was up to the lorry-axles on Shap , up to the bus-steps in London . |
| 8 | Bunting ( 1978 ) in more general terms disclaims this responsibility and states that with the introduction of high-yielding paddy it was to be expected there were social problems but it was up to the politicians to ‘ do something about it ’ . |
| 9 | He set barns on fire , was up before the magistrates for theft and by the time he was thirteen he was stealing cars . |
| 10 | So it was back to the hooks in the faith that something must turn up . |
| 11 | But as a model prisoner he was back on the streets within three years after remission for good behaviour . |
| 12 | She was back in the offices of the business services agency . |
| 13 | Just for the first few seconds she was back in the days after Hugh 's desertion . |
| 14 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 15 | Darcy was out on the links in Jersey yesterday and unable to come to the phone , but a member of the team of architects working on the project dismisses fears that the site will be ruined . |