Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon we were down to our last lumps of coal . |
| 2 | The crew , from Crook , Co Durham , were off to their annual dance when the bus filled up with smoke . |
| 3 | Coffee and a stroll up to the nearest AVIS and we were off to our next destination . |
| 4 | They were off on their seventeen years of Tristan and Isolde . |
| 5 | Ed and Matthew stayed at Peter 's for only a week and then they were off on their own . |
| 6 | The cartoons were hilarious , Guttersnipe was at the height of his form , Hind and Mosco were up to their mischievous tricks . |
| 7 | Do you feel ambitious enough to attain goals that previously you might have thought were out of your personal reach ? |
| 8 | Her eyes were back to their natural shade of flint . |
| 9 | ‘ Ju , ’ Anne realised they were back to their little kid names now , ‘ Ju , I do n't really think it matters any more . ’ |
| 10 | how we were back to our best and they were extremely lucky not to get a good hiding . |
| 11 | How she wishes she were back in her snug little house , tapping away on her word-processor , dissecting the lexemes of some classic Victorian novel , delicately detaching the hermeneutic code from the proairetic code , the cultural from the symbolic , surrounded by books and files , the gas fire hissing and a cup of coffee steaming at her elbow . |
| 12 | One game later , Probyn and his mates were back in their rightful position and flankers , nursing and cursing their unfamiliar bruises , were back in theirs . |
| 13 | Of these 5,478 were back in their own countries . |
| 14 | If you were back in your own house and subject to the same old strains you might end up getting into the same sort of scrape again . |
| 15 | She was aware that her mother had already had her first drink , and was on to her second , if not third glass of wine , if the bottle was anything to go by . |
| 16 | Soon it was on to our second garden of the day ; Hodges Barn at Shipton Moyne . |
| 17 | His father would now and again telephone me saying that David was down to his last few pounds and that he worried about money . |
| 18 | He contemplated a few drags until he realized he was down to his last three matches , and reluctantly put the cigarette back in his pocket . |
| 19 | When he looked for his money , he found that he was down to his last few shillings . |
| 20 | His wealth is a matter of awestruck tabloid speculation ; his parsimony a thing of show-business legend : " Andrew was almost broke when he was down to his last £3 million , " one friend remembers . |
| 21 | In other words , it was n't very deep , it did n't have a filter , and any informality was down to my indifferent building skills , rather than intentional . |
| 22 | One irate caller promised : ‘ If I was down to my last spoonful of petrol , with a hundred miles still to go , I 'd drive past an Elf station . ’ |
| 23 | This was along with their miscarried philosophy of private sector good , public sector bad . |
| 24 | Linighan was through on his own to shoot past Flowers for a somewhat overdue first goal of the season . |
| 25 | And then he was off at his usual Nelson pace , shaking off sophistication eagerly . |
| 26 | In a swift mindless moment , and one CTRL-Z later , the message was off on its merry way . |
| 27 | He was off on his own a good deal , playing with his tortoises , or , next door talking to Mrs Sargent . |
| 28 | But I was off on my own a lot . |
| 29 | But the Megarian decrees were seen , with justification , as Athenian aggression , and Corinth , remembering the 460s , must have thought Athens was up to her old intrigues . |
| 30 | ‘ Then we heard she 'd lost her job and was up to her old tricks , going out to dances and things . ’ |