Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] was [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's working very hard I mean , wh yesterday she was here at six o'clock , so I was long home and Wendy rang from here and she was still here . |
| 2 | So I was half way there then was n't I |
| 3 | Perhaps she was confusing Massis — as he referred to Great Ararat — with the volcano far to the south which the Turks called Sippan Dagh . |
| 4 | Well , nothing is real , we are fortunate to have been reminded by Candy Flip , so who was that quote referring to ? |
| 5 | Perhaps there was another route he would choose — after meeting the scribe again , Huy had little doubt who the rich client at the City of Dreams had been , and knew why his profile , fleetingly glimpsed , had seemed familiar . |
| 6 | Perhaps there was some amount of crafty deception here , as he explained to the National Defence Association : ‘ By not insisting on military drill we catch a lot of boys who would otherwise have no idea of coming into the education that we are trying to give . ’ |
| 7 | Then suddenly there was cool air on her face and light that hurt her eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ We came off the M4 and suddenly there was this maniac in the middle of the road , flagging us down . |
| 9 | We were eating off silver plates and suddenly there was this toad . |
| 10 | Then suddenly there was this group of people who asserted that not only could you commit yourself to a member of your own sex , they were actually doing it . |
| 11 | Apparently there was some kind of unscheduled launch in progress , an experiment under preprogrammed control . |
| 12 | Also , apparently there was some kind of bug which the whole party got to some degree … which was why Deane was ruled out completely . |
| 13 | The conventional response : If only there was some way I could help … rose to his throat and was half uttered before he realized its implication . |
| 14 | He changed it to : ‘ If only there was some way I could … illustrate it for you . |
| 15 | If only there was some backing evidence for the Foxbat report . |
| 16 | If only there was more time to think . |
| 17 | Obviously there was new school clothes that was needed . |
| 18 | Obviously there was some kind of partnership involved , but it seemed to her that Adam did most of the running of the outfit . |
| 19 | In all fairness I saw some beautiful work from other members of the class , so obviously there was some virtue in the course , but not for me . |
| 20 | It was the school 's belief that the creation of special units would not solve the behavioural problems which we encounter and furthermore there was little likelihood of re-integration into mainstream schooling ( a view largely substantiated by the available evidence of many of the existing units ) . |
| 21 | Furthermore there was considerable pessimism among mid-century political economists about the future development of the productive forces of capitalism , and marked optimism among later economists and reformers about a future in which the economy was better understood , the population better educated , and greater co-operation among classes would emerge . |
| 22 | enough There was This Barrier we never got |
| 23 | The principles were sound but none the less there was great fear amongst mental health service professionals about the Report 's practical implementation . |
| 24 | In the period after 1945 the Liberals were at a very low ebb and had significant support only in rural areas of Scotland , Wales and South-West England where industrial development was largely absent and so there was little trade union activity . |
| 25 | You see if There is going to be a war , and God 's people had also to be warriors and so there was that element of religion as well that that we had to be trained as warriors for the Lord . |
| 26 | So there was that allocation of system design responsibility right at the outset and that determined who would write the specification for what . |
| 27 | And so there was this campaign to persuade women to change . |
| 28 | And so there was this sort of propaganda campaign that was done through advertising to insist that women should n't have off days any more . |
| 29 | So there was bad feeling from the start : the tourists resentful of the Swedes , who looked down on them as a bunch of grubby anarchists . |
| 30 | What could you do to make it so there was less dirt in your bucket ? ’ , children were nearly always correct . |