Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this was up by Bridge End and up |
| 2 | Screws just at the front underneath here This was in a bad state cos er this was this was up like er like that . |
| 3 | All this was over by 10:30 . |
| 4 | This was over in Gloucestershire , at Prescott Hill , home of the Bugatti Owners Club . |
| 5 | THIS WAS ON OF BERNARD 'S EARLY ATTEMPTS AT SELF-TIMING SHOTS . |
| 6 | For whilst other industries could relatively easily dispose of their waste materials , this was out of the question for most of the nuclear industry 's leftovers . |
| 7 | This was out of the 850 000 or so collisions the UA1 apparatus recorded towards the end of last year from a total of about one thousand million actual collisions . |
| 8 | This was out of the question . |
| 9 | This was out of character . |
| 10 | This was out of 329 volumes which were left after 150 titles were reported missing at the time of the 1865 review . |
| 11 | But this was out of character with Zurich 's later history . |
| 12 | And this was out of a you know er I mean they were only what Oh could n't be more than about six eight people working in the Well not actually fitters but er you know , they were involved within the shop sort of thing . |
| 13 | Well they 've got the depot at Rochdale which services up to Blackpool and this was out on a limb . |
| 14 | This was out in the street afterwards . ’ |
| 15 | By the 1992 election , this was down to 95.3 per cent . |
| 16 | Of the seats , 5% deviated from the electoral quota by 20% ( though this was down from the 39% of seats that had deviated by that much on the 1982 register . ) |
| 17 | I showered , shaved — shaved my legs — like I said this was back in sixty-six , the world was a more innocent place , those days no one accused you of anti-feminism if you were caught with a tube of Immac . |
| 18 | After interviewing Susannah ( this was back in 1980 on the set of The Awakening ) , I had the good fortune to meet and interview John Huston and I challenged him on Susannah 's story . |
| 19 | This was back in 1988 , when Enrico Platter , head of children 's and youth programmes for WDR in Germany , proposed a 13-part series to the European Broadcasting Union ( EBU ) , and Ms Cann , then acting on behalf of Heinemann Young Books ) , publisher of the original Farthing Wood title , drew up a straightforward rights deal with WDR . |
| 20 | This was back in 1986 when Canute Express won the Janneau Mersey Novices Hurdle under Lorcan Wyer . |
| 21 | There was just because there was n't enough money within all unions , not forget that there was n't such a thing as a T U C then , this was in at the infancy when the unions first started , there was n't such as a T U C , Trades Unions Congress . |
| 22 | This was along with their miscarried philosophy of private sector good , public sector bad . |
| 23 | ‘ As I was saying , ’ Patrick Milligan continued , once his youngest was out of the house , ‘ if the best came to the best , and your sister married the old codger , we could be in clover . |
| 24 | The publicity given to the company in the Seventies was out of all proportion to its size ; but magazine and newspaper editors recognized that Ashley shops and their products offered something quite new . |
| 25 | By now it was clear to Coetzee 's superiors that , even in the freewheeling world of secret police work , their Section C stalwart was out of control . |
| 26 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
| 27 | We arrived here yesterday from Flinders at which place I was especially gratified to [ word not clear ] my acquaintance with the Natives and other things , and I should have left the island with a light heart and proceeded to Kings had [ not ] a fatal accident happened to one of the men who shot himself dead by incautiously pulling the gun from the boat with the muzzle toward his chest , the cock of the gun caught the seat of the boat and all was over with the poor fellow in half a minute . |
| 28 | All was about to be revealed as we tracked down madcap Jenny Hanley , the woman at the heart of a million schoolboy fantasies . |
| 29 | A year later the figure was 4,948 , or 10pc , and by January 1992 was up to 5,229 , or 10.5pc . |
| 30 | But while levels of so-called special wastes outside chemical sites for 1992 was down on the 1990 total , the 231,800 tonnes figure for 1992 was higher than the 213,700 tonnes figure in 1991 , because company closures had led to high waste disposals . |