Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov . |
| 32 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 33 | If they were down to the last dregs of their confidence after their Hillsborough defeat it did not show and it took Kelly 's superb reflexes to deny Newell after only three minutes . |
| 34 | They were down to the last roll of flowered wrapping paper– The shop had the look of a battlefield the morning after . |
| 35 | With only two weeks to go they were down to the cosmetic touches . |
| 36 | The corresponding carbon dioxide emissions were down by a similar amount . |
| 37 | Surprisingly , nablab sales in the off-trade , which is traditionally less affected by recessionary pressure , were down by a third . |
| 38 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 39 | She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen . |
| 40 | Studies were over for a few months . |
| 41 | Arsenal were through to the next round , and it was the turning point in the club 's history . |
| 42 | The RSM brought everyone to attention , ‘ By the right , quick march , ’ barked the Officer and we were off to a jaunty 6–8 time , Blue Bonnets Over the Border , as I got under way . |
| 43 | Then they were off with a loud revving of the engine . |
| 44 | She and Sebastian were off on a long honeymoon , to spend two months in Tuscany in an old farmhouse belonging to friends of Deborah and Stephen : it was temporarily in need of a caretaker . |
| 45 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 46 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 47 | yeah , it was , the bit I saw was that policeman when he goes although those two were up to no good |
| 48 | If it were up to the faithful in Blackpool , Margaret Thatcher would go ‘ on and on ’ . |
| 49 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 50 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 51 | I thought you were up with the latest fashions . |
| 52 | They were up against the absolute certainty of guilt expressed by all the parties weighed against them . |
| 53 | ‘ It was funny to see those agents ’ faces when they discovered they were up against the famous Marc Vila ! |
| 54 | We were not alone in our dilemma , for all the other prahus in the fleet around us were up against the same deadline . |
| 55 | Each time Rugby Canada were up against the big names . |
| 56 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 57 | At Penguin , trading profits were £26.3m — and increase of 101% or , if the impact of the Smithmark and New York lease problems of the previous year is excluded , of 31.5% — while at Longman , operating profits were up by a hefty 38% , to £23.5m . |
| 58 | In turn I told her a little about my own background , as though we were out on a first date . |
| 59 | Soon Jacob and I were out on the lonely , snow-covered hills . |
| 60 | The Firth was much broader here than at Dalmeny and , if it had not been a clear day , Corbett could have almost believed they were out on the open sea . |