Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Luckily we were on to their plan and switched off the power before we moved in . ’ |
| 2 | I thought you were on about your husband coming out of hospital ! |
| 3 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning , erm I originally gained the co-operation of the headmaster — he allowed me to come into the school — and then I found the teachers enormously co-operative , in fact , far more cooperative than I had a really had a right to expect . |
| 4 | The teachers were in on my research from the beginning . |
| 5 | I were down at their house and she 'd got these and she 'd |
| 6 | His arms were down at his sides . |
| 7 | The first one was community and I know , erm that Catherine was n't very happy about the community side of things and I 've looked at the the pamphlet things and it needs updating a little bit so I took the fact that the Royal Quay 's were down at our doorstep and contacted Linda who was extremely helpful and she 's put together erm , a package of things along with me , I went down last week and the first week the ninth is going to be explaining to the classes what we 're going to be doing , each form teacher will be able to do that and the sixteen and the twenty third there are visits down to the Royal Quay 's Education Centre erm for which |
| 8 | All were down on their luck , all had been drinking and all had decided on an easy way out . |
| 9 | ‘ One minute she were up by the carriage , the next she were down on her back like a tumbled ewe . ’ |
| 10 | IF YOU were down on your luck in Devon in the early 18th Century , you could count on a hot meal at Bowden House , near Totnes . |
| 11 | Soon we were down to our last lumps of coal . |
| 12 | The crew , from Crook , Co Durham , were off to their annual dance when the bus filled up with smoke . |
| 13 | Coffee and a stroll up to the nearest AVIS and we were off to our next destination . |
| 14 | They were off on their seventeen years of Tristan and Isolde . |
| 15 | Ed and Matthew stayed at Peter 's for only a week and then they were off on their own . |
| 16 | The cartoons were hilarious , Guttersnipe was at the height of his form , Hind and Mosco were up to their mischievous tricks . |
| 17 | Jill and her mother were up to their elbows in flour . |
| 18 | Aj was directing the action as though he was a producer in charge of a play , and Hugh , Mike and Debby were up to their thighs in stinking lake water ; Debby was fetchingly attired in green chest waders and looked like a cross between Jeremy Fisher and a model in kinky rubberwear . |
| 19 | Yeah , yeah , oh yes of course a lot of the people were , that were in the we were in under the balcony but they were up to their knees in plaster and goodness knows what that had come out of the roof they could n't move it all dropped round them . |
| 20 | We were up to our necks in running the gallery and it was always ‘ next year ’ . ’ |
| 21 | Somehow those confounded binoculars were up at her eyes . |
| 22 | LEICESTER went into the match against Charlton hoping to equal the best winning run in the club 's history … but they were up against their bogey club for the past two years . |
| 23 | They were up in their dormitories by 5.45 p.m. , where they often played cards . |
| 24 | Then he 'd driven round to the surgery of Drs Singh and Gupta , with whom he was registered , only to find that both were out on their rounds . |
| 25 | Certainly people in Shippenhall were out on their roofs for boats to rescue them , and still there was no let up in the rain . |
| 26 | Even if you were out on your feet , and fell as a dead weight , your arms would n't drop tidily by your sides . |
| 27 | when the boys were out with their flannels and sports jackets and |
| 28 | She was sobbing hysterically because her children 's friends were refusing to play with them when they were out with her Rottweilers . |
| 29 | erm which a friend in London very kindly made for us because we were out with her , her mother |
| 30 | 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 . |