Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , when the battles were over and Ireland was whole once more , they would return , but perhaps they would simply remain in the hill-farms and the distant mountains , forging their own cultures , making their own legends , weaving their strange secret stories into the fabric of Ireland 's history . |
| 2 | The light was on and Phoebe was sitting on the bed with Maggie 's arms wrapped convulsively around her , her scarlet and sparkling body thus partly hidden from her grandmother . |
| 3 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Dalziel , ‘ Morgan was on because Felstead was off . ’ |
| 4 | Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket . |
| 5 | This was long after Rol was dead . |
| 6 | Of course , that was long before Tina was born . ’ |
| 7 | At last it was over and Lori was getting up . |
| 8 | The First World War was over and Europe was once again open for pleasure . |
| 9 | Perhaps it was just that Gildas was closest , he understood most , and although their friendship was impregnable , they could still hurt each other . |
| 10 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 11 | The issue was not whether Ho was a communist but whether there was , in principle , any possibility of voluntary , autonomous communism . |
| 12 | That was not because Bill was Bill , but because it would have been such an outrageous lie , as Bill 's father would realize . |
| 13 | The stench grew worse , making her gag , but it was not until Isabel was standing over the motionless form that she realised why . |
| 14 | But if you have a reasonable cross section of the country and your result was still that Birmingham was looked down upon as a low status accent , then at least you can your results so . . |
| 15 | It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas . |
| 16 | Fiji 's disappointing display at last year 's tournament , according to Simpkin , was simply due to infighting within the Fiji camp and was mainly because Simpkin was n't the only coach this time around . |
| 17 | He complained publicly , and the word was out that Rourke was turning difficult . |
| 18 | When I got indoors Mum was out but Frankie was sitting in her chair by the fire warming his toes on the fender . |
| 19 | Nothing was amiss so Matthew was asked for a semen sample . |
| 20 | They were far more likely to be concealed in one of the buildings round about and it was here that Owen was concentrating the search . |
| 21 | Regular post natal classes were started by Kent County Council Health Department at Sidcup , KENT in 1943 on the recommendation of Dr. Anni Knoll ; it was here that Molly was persuaded to teach again in 1947 , starting the snowball which led eventually to nationwide representation . |
| 22 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 23 | It was n't that Katherine was n't enamoured of Paris . |
| 24 | It was n't that Amy was dirty ; she was continually washing herself , her hair , her few clothes . |
| 25 | It was n't that Nisodemus was stupid . |
| 26 | It was n't until Juliet was sent to lunch that she remembered her rendezvous with David at three o'clock . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 28 | In fact it was n't until Anna was here , and we were watching a programme about Romania , that I burst into tears and cried for hours and hours . |
| 29 | Her parents were a benign though distant presence and it was n't until Charles was seven that he actually sat down to a meal with his father in the downstairs dining-room . |
| 30 | Perhaps it was there that Roger was born or brought up . |