Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning next to a time for my ‘ house call ’ we realised that , in golfing terms , we were only a drive and five iron apart . |
| 2 | Five year apprenticeship yes and er it was more or less labourer work you were just a boy and run and did messages and carried whatever the journeymen bakers wanted . |
| 3 | You were just a child and I knew there was nothing serious between you . ’ |
| 4 | There were just the mist and the empty roads , and the far-of crowing of cockerels in the dawn . |
| 5 | There were just the whitehorn and brier of the hedges , the green ridge of the lane inside the wheel tracks , the wild strawberries starting to darken on the banks . |
| 6 | THOMPSON : ‘ The thing with Bill Shankly was that we were always a family and everyone knew each other from the cleaning lady to the girls in the ticket office . |
| 7 | We were nearly a mile and a quarter out , the set was another quarter away from us , and already it was fleecy at the top , throwing up spray a hundred yards in the air . |
| 8 | Section C operations , though secret , were mainly the bread and butter of spy work — patient surveillance . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , it was something like a castle , and he 'ad tons of servants and a butler as well , and a sister who was secretly a witch and tried to make the poor girl worship Satan , but — ’ |
| 10 | Horses were his speciality , and although he was rather a stout and shortish man-he sported a moustache - he was quite strong . |
| 11 | Daly , hitherto Bishop of Down and Connor ( including Belfast ) , was theologically a conservative and an outspoken critic of the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) . |
| 12 | In the front line Vlasov was noted for wearing the plainest of khaki uniforms without decorations or insignia ; this was presumably the gymnastiorka and sharovari . |
| 13 | My Mam was ‘ the boss ’ at home but outside that house she was merely a wife and mother , never a person in her own right . |
| 14 | The Profumo affair was merely the focus and catalyst for the coming to a head of that revolution in the mood and character of English life which had begun to show itself in the late summer of 1955 . |
| 15 | This was perhaps the final and clinching element of a strenuous programme of persuasion on the part of Gordon Thomas , for shortly after came the committee 's decision to go ahead at Foxton . |
| 16 | They caved in ; I mean it was only a sister and a niece , and they 'd both been provided for during his lifetime and the niece got a couple of hundred thou in his will . |
| 17 | That was really the reassurance I most wanted , the knowledge that what was going to happen was only a beginning and not just an incident . |
| 18 | But he was only a mile and a half from Little Knoll . |
| 19 | The baby was only a sign and could only have been understood later in the light of the life of the person who was to be the Saviour of the world . |
| 20 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 21 | He 'd done some dreadful things , but my father was only a boy and this man took care of him . |
| 22 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 23 | ‘ Stefano reckons he sacrificed his own life for his daughter 's career but he was only a waiter and a boxer and stuntman before that . |
| 24 | Yes , there was only the sea and the sky light carnival . |
| 25 | The High Street had been left to the pimps and the down-and-outs , and in the ancient College grounds where once the Black Friars had taught and studied in a universe made of crystal spheres , there was only the clang and clatter of brake couplings and buffers . |
| 26 | For a moment there was only the stillness and the boy watching , the soft soughing of the wind in the trees across the water and the faint , lulling call of pigeons in the wood . |
| 27 | The German soldiers — who had learned their fighting on the Russian Front , at Monte Cassino and through the hedgerows of Normandy — had proved a match for the guerrillas , and it was only the indifference and boredom of the French public to a war which proved astronomically expensive in financial and human terms which led the French government to seek a political settlement . |
| 28 | And there was only the maidservant and me . |
| 29 | The traffic along Western Avenue had been quiet , and it was only an hour and a quarter after leaving Oxford that Lewis was speaking to the Night Sister on the third floor of the hospital , a neat , competent-looking brunette who appeared rather more concerned about the unprecedented police interest in matters than in the medical condition of her most recent road-casualty , now lying behind a curtained bed in Harley Ward . |
| 30 | For an instant I thought I saw his face behind the mask — it was only an instant and then it was gone , but I nearly fainted . |