Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd tried it once or twice before , a coupla times when I was younger , but I was n't over keen on it because of the , y'know , just 'cos of the name it 'd got really , y'know , having to inject it and that . |
| 2 | It 's puppyfat , it 's just a phase , Madeleine had hummed to her unhelpfully : I was just like that at your age . |
| 3 | France with Tom last year I was still like that at first , until … |
| 4 | I was far from sure about my own appearance . |
| 5 | At the time , I was far from alone in wondering if he had not wandered further down that path than he knew , whether the playboy and gilded youth had not taken over from the redoubtable fighter . |
| 6 | Inexorably Rose moved on through the entremets and coffee , sending eight people scurrying in all directions as he masterminded the performance , the objects of which were far from clear to Auguste . |
| 7 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 8 | In nine cases a subject described a situation which was not at one of the 40 junctions of interest , these were either descriptions of junctions on the practice route or events which occurred between junctions on the route , these were not coded . |
| 9 | Another mile revealed a track going up to the plateau and a sign pointing straight ahead to ‘ Hamouda ’ — a village which was not on any of the maps . |
| 10 | There were two old linebacked bulls and seven bull calves at the time to help fix the colour , which was not unlike that of the Longhorn , an English breed which had been widespread in eighteenth-century Ireland ( there was said to be a ‘ hornless Longhorn ’ in Cumberland in the nineteenth century ) . |
| 11 | A profound transformation took place , one which was far from obvious to the casual outside observer . |
| 12 | Fortunately their late arrival did not seem to have aroused the usual hostile chorus of hushing , the majority of the audience consisting of French soldiers who were far from particular about such matters . |
| 13 | You were n't of afraid of me but the accent that I had at that time . |
| 14 | You were away for all of it ? |
| 15 | You were never like this to me . |
| 16 | If you were in for 9 in the morning , you were out at 9.30 and the other fellow must not book in till 9.31 a.m . |
| 17 | and you were there for half past five . |
| 18 | No , you said you were there for half past five , because you had to get there before half past five in order to book it . |
| 19 | But , Debbie was just getting to the stage where she was just to same on the shift , erm , but yes , you need , like , th , the , you get certain people that , they just need the challenge , but then you can find yourself erm , getting into a situation where you 're giving them those extra things to do but you 're taking them away from somebody else , so they 're like just going into the background , you know . |
| 20 | Whatever else Liza Tremayne was or was n't , she was n't at all like Eleanor Fuller . |
| 21 | She was n't like some of her friends who needed sex like they needed food and drink . |
| 22 | But she was not at all like any of these people , and the experiences in the book are theirs and not hers . |
| 23 | She was only like this in response to Lear 's perverted claim : the rest of the play shows that there is no one more loving . |
| 24 | She was down to 99 in two hours . |
| 25 | She was there with some of her girlfriends from Van Cleef and Arpels ; that 's where she used to work . |
| 26 | But I also knew that she was far from pleased with the arrangements . |
| 27 | She was far from indifferent to me , I felt sure of that , but neither would she contemplate carrying on an affair with a married man . |
| 28 | She was directly over one of the pebbles and could see that all the others were moving away from hers . |
| 29 | Margaret Baxter was a godly woman who was completely at one with her husband in the concerns of the Gospel . |
| 30 | The economic depression had bitten deeply into European morale , in practice governments were reluctant to extend the powers of Community institutions , and the Plan itself was both over ambitious in its general aims and too vague on specific actions . |