Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | About three months before the actual event took place all leave was cancelled , even 24 hour passes , and Bomber Command was operational nearly every night , bad weather or good . |
2 | Rather it suggests that intercourse was normal once a couple began to " keep company " and considered each other " promised " . |
3 | If the actor was real then the film was real and it worked . |
4 | It was nearly four in the morning by now , and Boy was ready to sleep ; not exhausted , but content , knowing that the night was perfect just the way it was . |
5 | er I thought your chain was loose there the way it was hanging |
6 | His voice was hearty yet the answer did not convince her . |
7 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
8 | No , no , no , wait a minute , wait a minute , let me think , this was somewhere , do n't forget they come from all over the bloody country the South of England Show erm , this scrumpy was all somewhere a bit farther north , Cotswolds or |
9 | If the market was efficient then the model could not produce above normal profits for the user . |