Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 2 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 3 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 4 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 5 | but you can do it because you know you can go back home as it were in to the other area . |
| 6 | ‘ Told you you were in for a nasty surprise , ’ Rex smirked awfully . |
| 7 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 8 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 9 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |
| 10 | Ken and Maggie were in for a long run . |
| 11 | The first outsiders were in for a real treat . |
| 12 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 13 | They continued riding through the afternoon , by which time the dull cloud above their heads had become unbroken , and it looked as though they were in for a wet night . |
| 14 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 15 | If the Maltese expected the match to have the friendly atmosphere of a schoolboy international , however , then they were in for a rude awakening . |
| 16 | Dean Hodgson was first to go … caught behind … for 9 and then in the next but one over Broad was leg before for 14 … at 26 for 2 the Gloucestershire folk must have thought they were in for a hard day but Mark Alleyne came to the rescue … he made 73 … |
| 17 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 18 | We were in for the worst . |
| 19 | The omens were bad , and when the Hammersmith show eventually got going it seemed we were in for an all-time rock ‘ n ’ roll disaster . |
| 20 | They were in for an interesting night . |
| 21 | I knew we were in for an enjoyable day as soon as I heard Nick Faldo say , ‘ Have you heard this one , Nick ? ’ |
| 22 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 23 | ‘ Then when Warnaeera and Muralidaran got New Zealand out for 102 , we knew we were in with a great chance of beating them . ’ |
| 24 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 25 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 26 | We never saw Chilete until suddenly we were in among the grey ghosts of houses , the road rutted now and full of mud . |
| 27 | We were down at the main road . |
| 28 | In particular , the Home-Grown Cereals Authority reports exports of wheat 30 per cent were down on the previous harvest — mostly due to dearer prices . |
| 29 | The sharply lower rhodium price depressed revenues in the chemicals and refining business and profits for the year were down on the previous period . |
| 30 | Even after Aulef , the only food I had with any meat content , the meat puddings , and beans and sausage , were down to a dozen tins each . |