Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 2 | ‘ We got our scores at crucial stages and it was always difficult for England when they were only level at half-time having played with the breeze . |
| 3 | It seemed to me that hardly any left the building in those weeks of May without murmuring apologetically that they were only leaving in order to get some baking done at home ! |
| 4 | Now obviously the you could see the cars in that fast lane there , they were just nose to tail , nose to tail . |
| 5 | Also on the surge , they were quickly face to face with Mallachy and Rory . |
| 6 | Pallister were always jumpin on Lee 's back if you remember , at least Lesley were better lookin' . |
| 7 | The pollarded trees you see in old woodland and hedgerow are clear evidence that they were once part of boundaries formed to enclose stock as well , maybe , as parish boundaries . |
| 8 | Although the four of them were practically knee to knee , he made as if speaking in a vast auditorium . |
| 9 | And we were also way off beam about unemployment being the greatest political force of the 1980s in the Third World — we predicted riots among the urban unemployed all over the world which simply have n't happened . |
| 10 | These verses do not appear in all early manuscripts and there is some doubt as to whether they were originally part of Luke 's Gospel . ) |
| 11 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 12 | Important though these duties were , they were fairly routine in character ; they did not bring Clanvow to the notice of a wider public . |
| 13 | Incorporated into the new group are a number of established businesses that were previously part of ICL 's Associated Services Division . |
| 14 | The wealthy farmers were either Church of Ireland in religion or pro-O'Neill in politics and , for either or both of those reasons , were not attracted to Free Presbyterianism . |
| 15 | The two minders were either side of Marcus now and the floor jumped at him . |
| 16 | The public gave it early notice : the critics were again kind to Burton . |
| 17 | Indeed , the nineteenth century English philosopher , Herbert Spencer , had already constructed theories of human society based on Darwin 's evolutionary ideas and his writings were again part of Park 's reading . |
| 18 | Yet these coffee producers were primarily waChagga from Kilimanjaro or waHaya from Bukoba , on Lake Victoria . |
| 19 | Well I I was in the east end and of course where my mum and my aunt worked it was mostly sort of cleaning and scrubbing and charring and turning mangles in the back garden and all sorts of things . |
| 20 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 21 | Incidentally , Tommy had a dog of 57 varieties called Sammy who was predominantly Spaniel by looks and devoted to him . |
| 22 | Although modern research has pointed out that women 's paid employment is underestimated by the available records ( in particular the census ) , since it was more irregular and less likely to be recorded than that of men , women 's choice of work was certainly in practice severely restricted , first and most crucially by what was effectively segregation by sex , secondly by local opportunities . |
| 23 | She said it like it was somewhere south-east of Sodom . |
| 24 | That Jesus was personally kind to women there is no reason to doubt . |
| 25 | In the event , as we saw earlier , this did not appear ; there was merely condemnation of attacks on shipping moving to and from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
| 26 | So she was especially kind to Janice . |
| 27 | This was obviously anathema to Ricardou , in particular , and a fairly acrimonious exchange erupted during the conference sessions surrounding this question of referentiality . |
| 28 | But there was only misery for Middlesbrough as their treble hopes went up in smoke with a 4–2 defeat at home to Portsmouth in their replay . |
| 29 | Because erm even when radio came er there was only sort of chamber music on the radio you know . |
| 30 | ‘ I was only thinking of Elizabeth , ’ she said , with some indignation . |