Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he 'd got inside , I 'd taken Martin 's arm and we were down the alley outside the Pontefract Castle just as the doors opened . |
| 2 | ‘ My first year at the club was tough when we were down the bottom of Division Two , but this is the biggest challenge I 've faced . |
| 3 | And when I went and got him up this morning his legs were out the bottom of the cot again ! |
| 4 | The only access to the basement was down a flight of steep steps , and involved ducking under a low ceiling . |
| 5 | The door to Raynor 's room was down a flight of steps and through a narrow archway . |
| 6 | It was down the pasture near Lartington on a day during the last war , when the weather was very bad and I was going for the bus to Barnard Castle . |
| 7 | — He was down the prom on Sunday . ’ |
| 8 | The most impressive wound was down the length of the upper part of his right arm , where the flesh had been sliced away . |
| 9 | I was down the market with this other girl , and we saw her mum there . |
| 10 | When that time was up an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Paris had been violently beaten up when he called at the shipowner 's apartment . |
| 11 | The next minute I was up the tree with him . |
| 12 | Sitting there , above him , watching him slowly keel over and close his eyes , Marie was remembering something else : ‘ Our Mam said Simon 's Dad was up the factory on Friday , did n't she ? |
| 13 | Mrs Goreng was back a couple of days later , with some excuse about a plug malfunctioning . |
| 14 | Before 1905 was out the spectre of social upheaval thus enabled the Tsar 's government to regain the initiative . |
| 15 | made with all milk you see , and I put this on the other day , it was Monday , and I put it on for a cup of coffee , well Jim was out the front with Tom cos Tom fixed the front door |
| 16 | Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon . |
| 17 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 18 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 19 | The last time I was going out seriously was around the time of Shoom , which was very exciting . |
| 20 | It was around the time of ‘ Strange Town ’ and he was starting to think that punk rock had had it and he was getting very emotional . |
| 21 | It was around the time of Eric Verrico 's disappearance that the three Bernard brothers — Bruce , Oliver and Jeffrey — came into Minton 's life . |