Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fairy lights were on and a machine was belting out smoke two frail pure white eight year old coach men stumbled out onto stage desperately trying to heave a massive structure around the stage , containing one very beautiful princess who seemed very heavy indeed . |
| 2 | We both knew only too well because of the business we were in and the sort of people we were what could happen . ’ |
| 3 | Operating expenses were down and the company has $1.1 billion in cash . |
| 4 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 5 | The spies were about and a Dominican in some way unknown secured a copy and sent it to the Inquisition at Rome . |
| 6 | I had to be escorted because the curfew was on and the village was heavily guarded . |
| 7 | Only the room she was in and the company she was among marked the difference . |
| 8 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 9 | An agent said Daniels realised the position he was in and the seriousness of the his actions . |
| 10 | The sun was down and the night wind boomed in the great hollow shell of the estuary . |
| 11 | ‘ Then suddenly the car appeared and swerved around the barrier , which was down and the warning lights were flashing . |
| 12 | CHRISTMAS was over but the war was not . |
| 13 | After the quarantine was over and a course of protective injections had been given , the older orangs were gradually introduced to the forest and then allowed to live freely all day . |
| 14 | The rain was over and the night was now clear . |
| 15 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 16 | Damn Miles for wanting the information suppressed until the crisis was over and the shock could be minimized . |
| 17 | In 1649 the war was over and the king executed , but that summer a surprising turn of events took place in the Fens . |
| 18 | The immediate strike threat was over and the union had demonstrated its ability to control the men ; the formal establishment of the National Maritime Board remained . |
| 19 | I realised that once the tour of the assembly area was over and the lunch began my chances of nosing around would be minimal . |
| 20 | By 1818 , when the War of Independence was over and the Republican Revolution can be said to have been won , America had rejected both the Crown and religious establishment , and had accepted a creed that granted religious toleration and the ‘ natural rights of man ’ . |
| 21 | For years , he had pitted himself against it , aware that it would mean the time for worrying about the future was over and the time for action had arrived . |
| 22 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
| 23 | Once the meal was over and the thanksgiving intoned , Corbett whispered to Ranulf to return to their chamber while he sought an interview with the Prior . |
| 24 | The honeymoon was over and the reality of what she had taken on began to dawn . |
| 25 | The battle was over and the future she had dreamed of lay all about her in hopeless ruins . |
| 26 | The war was over and the Empire had won — or that is how the politicians presented the result of the match between Britain and Germany . |
| 27 | The party was over and the house was in darkness when he pulled up in the courtyard and accompanied her through the front door into the hall . |
| 28 | In more than one crunch game when the pressure was off and the ball was in the opposition 's half , Frank would climb on to the bar and endear himself to the Celtic faithful by pretending to sleep on the woodwork . |
| 29 | The ham , which everyone ate avidly , and which Sally-Anne forced down , was off and the butter was so rancid that she almost choked over it . |
| 30 | but my time was up and a car came for her . |