Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 2 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 3 | Somebody was out of town for two days , he explained , somebody who would block any proposal for her release as a matter of course . |
| 4 | It would only be if somebody was off on long term sickness or |
| 5 | Before I put her on the plane for London I told her everything was over between us and I 've just reiterated that . |
| 6 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 7 | It was n't that money was being stolen or sneaked — everything was down on paper . |
| 8 | How come , all of a sudden , everything was out of control ? |
| 9 | Everything was out in the open — political resistance , management failings and just sheer inertia . |
| 10 | Everything was out in the open now and the dream she had had for so long was about to turn into reality . |
| 11 | But in Edinburgh , where 48 hours of non-stop rain led to sandbags being distributed early on Saturday , a Lothians and Borders police spokesman said everything was back to normal . |
| 12 | Everything was back to normal . |
| 13 | Everything was back to normal again now . |
| 14 | Except that not quite everything was back to normal . |
| 15 | He decided to write home asking his mother how everything was back at Gibbet Hall and if she could come to visit him , or even better take him away . |
| 16 | When everything was back in place , |
| 17 | And , miraculously , there was little resistance and I stared in disbelief as the great organ disappeared gloriously and wonderfully from sight I was right behind it with my arm , probing frantically away up to the shoulder as I rotated my wrist again and again till both uterine cornua were fully involuted Ben I was certain beyond doubt that everything was back in place I lay there for a few moments , my arm still deep inside the sow , my forehead resting on the floor . |
| 18 | Everything was back in place , cloths wrung out , sink shining . |
| 19 | The alarm rang out in the temples of hell that something was up in Judea and that there was a baby born in Bethlehem who posed a threat to the rebellious empire . |
| 20 | That something was about to be revealed that she did n't want to see . |
| 21 | something was out of phase . |
| 22 | five hundred million or something , four hundred and thirty of that or something was out of his pension or were n't it ? |
| 23 | I think one was out at Caister . |
| 24 | No one was about except a black and white cat asleep in the sun . |
| 25 | No one was about in the suburban roads and avenues . |
| 26 | Then I was down at the Chough last night and everyone was on about it . |
| 27 | Everyone was up on the sun deck in the early morning as we approached the magnificent twin peaks of this imposing looking island . |
| 28 | It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year . |
| 29 | No none of you do now but when he first suggested it everyone was up in arms and he poor old soul I remembered he said , I 've had enough change I I believe in this I I 've I 've tried I 'm too old now and out he walked . |
| 30 | Fortunately everyone was back in time for the grand procession into the arena , when the members of the Society are introduced , in character , to the audience . |