Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 2 | The words were not like music to Doreen 's ears . |
| 3 | It had occurred to Cecilia as soon as the words were out of her mouth that five minutes to twelve , which was the time when she had seen Jasper , was rather early for a lunch hour to begin . |
| 4 | As soon as the words were out of her mouth she regretted them . |
| 5 | He 'd regretted the invitation as soon as the words were out of his mouth . |
| 6 | The moment the words were out of her mouth Leonora could have kicked herself . |
| 7 | The words were there inside Jezrael , programmed by the cold machines of the night before . |
| 8 | But its characteristics were more at the level of perception than of narrative : peripheral vision ; proximity to the image ; and massive amplification of sound . |
| 9 | So you see the commercial aspects were still in there in those days as they are today . |
| 10 | As it turned out , the Machins were there in force , solemn in the church , gloomy by the graveside . |
| 11 | In Gloucestershire break-ins were up by 30% , second only to Cheshire . |
| 12 | A UN Security Council resolution adopted unanimously on Nov. 25 noted that the meetings had not achieved their goal " in particular because certain positions adopted by the Turkish Cypriot side were fundamentally at variance with the Set of Ideas " , and urged the parties to adopt a series of confidence-building measures recommended by the Secretary-General . |
| 13 | The determined Cranleigh side were far from downhearted and they almost got a quick equaliser when Chris Lamboll , having beaten 'keeper Paul Cann , saw his shot booted off the line by Steve Buckingham . |
| 14 | And although Phil Simmons earned his first Test wicket by bowling David Boon just before stumps , the home side were still in control with an overall lead of 188 . |
| 15 | After the opposition were out for 171 , the CCG team reached the required total with two overs to spare , largely thanks to an opening stand of 95 by Jeremy Hook and Philip McKenna . |
| 16 | It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke … |
| 17 | I thought they were lucky in their officials — executive leader Ali Bacher , ANC official Steve Tshwete , manager Alan Jordaan , and coach Mike Procter — and hoped they would enjoy to the full this honeymoon period of World Cup cricket in which their national fans were firmly behind them . |
| 18 | The success of Carry On Nurse in America did n't alter the fact that the fans were mostly in Britain and the Commonwealth , but the mail poured in from places as far apart as Kenya and Hong Kong . |
| 19 | Not surprisingly , mean concentrations of DDT and related compounds were up to seven times higher in the blubber of male common dolphins from the southern California area than from any species sampled elsewhere in the Pacific , including Japan . |
| 20 | Her legs were still on his shoulders as she pulled his head down to lightly kiss his lips . |
| 21 | Her legs were out to the side like that |
| 22 | I ca n't describe it , she had , her legs were out to the side , but they were pointing down like that |
| 23 | My legs were all over the show and I 've got to stand tall tomorrow . ’ |
| 24 | In the North West Division Two Deeside were also without a full squad but came fourth at Crewe and now lie sixth overall . |
| 25 | I thought you and David Fairfax were n't on speaking terms , " Sara said . |
| 26 | So , although the North Koreans were soon to be backed by 250,000 Communist Chinese troops , officially there was still no hot war — only a cold one , in two versions , foreign and domestic . |
| 27 | Reg took over as caretaker-manager but after only ten minutes of their second match realised that Athletico were out of their depth in Division One and , sure enough , the club was bundled into the Second , finishing the season fifteen points adrift at the bottom . |
| 28 | Arnold , Williams and Douglas scored second half tries for Gosforth , Johnson adding a conversion and a penalty , but Morley were always in control . |
| 29 | Second best were the grammar schools , deemed to be a kind of honorary public schools ; secondary modern schools were not in the running . |
| 30 | The double answer — schools are different from but they are also the same as other organizations — was confirmed when Handy and Aitken ( 1986:34 ) asked whether , in their essentials , schools were just like other organizations . |