Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , remembering the way the wretched man had kept his finger on the bell , ‘ He could n't have been that lucky — to pick on the one flat you were in out of all the others — purely by chance . ’ |
| 2 | So we were off er after that we were off and landed down in erm Bishop 's Wharf er in the woods there and we , the next morning we were off down to Gosport and we were embarked on the ships there and er landed in Normandy at the beach it was . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd be surprised if we were back in before the end of this Parliament , ’ he said three weeks ago , almost emphatically enough for the majority of Tory MPs who want to steer clear of the Bundesbank for as long as possible . |
| 4 | Which meant you come home from your double er shift , went to your bed , had about four hours sleep and were back out for your normal shift again . |
| 5 | ‘ Childbirth ’ our local priest called it , but I did n't really understand what he was on about until several years later when I came up against the problem again . |
| 6 | It was down round about the forty two , forty five horsepower mark . |
| 7 | Any sign of Men and he was off out of sight using the dead ground between rises to stay hidden , and he was careful to rise when he could over ridges where rocks or trees broke the skyline and so camouflaged his presence . |
| 8 | Goodbye , Miss — er — ’ And she was off back down the corridor . |
| 9 | Chen was up out of his chair at once . |
| 10 | Since nobody on the summit of the Ben required a ticking off , except perhaps by the fashion police , it was back on to the tourist path for the descent . |
| 11 | By 1900 it was back up to 148,263 and rising again . |
| 12 | A week later , responding to an OPEC decision to cut production , the Brent price was back up to $15 . |
| 13 | Then it was back down to ground level to celebrate over a bottle of champagne with Zoe 's mum , Pat , and husband Joe . |
| 14 | I had the photocopy stashed in a chart drawer and was back out with it in moments . |