Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of items required on an everyday basis such as food , clothing , building materials , fuel and water , were either to be found locally or were produced on the farm . |
| 2 | So far as Orientalism in particular and European knowledge of other societies in general have been concerned , historicism meant that one human history uniting humanity either culminated in or was observed from the vantage point of Europe , or the West … |
| 3 | Farrell pushed the agent inside and was joined by the other intruder . |
| 4 | He had come in and was leaning against the closed door , surveying the chaos with an expressionless face . |
| 5 | Although she and Robert arrived at their London hotel quite late , and admittedly she was somewhat tired from the journey , the strain of the ceremony , she was all the same a little surprised when they booked in and were shown to a suite which Robert explained was hers — alone . |
| 6 | We went in and were ushered into the hall where a number of other new children were looking at books of photos of school trips and events . |
| 7 | They had their heads down and were pounding across the ground with one aim in mind . |
| 8 | Mr. Crowther had his offices in an old house farther down the High Street on the other side , and in five minutes he and Sara and Matthew had walked down and were standing outside the big black door of Moorlake House . |
| 9 | Oliver finished his speech and sat down and was slapped on the back . |
| 10 | ‘ The swinging signboard fell down and was left in the garden for 14 months . |
| 11 | Andrew Beattie knew some of them personally and was drawn into the work of finding new homes and dealing with the problems of the young , sick and old . |
| 12 | First take-off was made at 8.02pm and was followed by a faultless landing ten minutes later . |
| 13 | He attended Mass every morning at four o'clock and was moved by the solemn dignity of the services . |
| 14 | Eden was so angry at having been made a fool of that the Director General of MI6 , Sir John ‘ Sinbad ’ Sinclair , was obliged to retire prematurely and was replaced by the head of MI5 , Sir Dick White . |
| 15 | Usually , they had a single mast stepped amidships and were rigged with a single square sail . |
| 16 | At least there was room on the floor of the gallery — which curtailed Nigel 's ‘ pacing space ’ somewhat but was counterbalanced by the advantage of more than adequate free labour for harvesting . |
| 17 | More bad luck was to follow a minute later ; Steve Jenkins hit a cross shot which Spencer Creedon parried across the six yard box , Kenny Clark followed up and desperately slid in but was denied by the post , and in doing so , dislocated his finger , but was luckily allowed back into the action within minutes following treatment . |
| 18 | It dawned on him that this was precisely the wrong thing to say , but Hrun had already pushed Twoflower away and was reaching for the Luggage … |
| 19 | The plum-pudding model passed instantly away and was replaced by the solar system model of planetary electrons encircling a central positively charged nuclear " sun " . |
| 20 | Entry was eight pounds today or four pounds for O A Ps and young people , Tufnell comes in now , past John Hampshire , and that one slightly faster one and edge away and was fielded by a falling Lewis at that backward point position , both in there let slip and er I do n't think any of the batsmen , I think er not happy at all against Tufnell , er in , remember his very good figures at the Oval and now he 's following up with some very steady bowling here , with the pitch does help him . |
| 21 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 22 | In 1857 the whole of the jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts in Probate and Administration was taken away and was vested in a new court — the Court of Probate . |
| 23 | But Merrill had backed away and was standing at the door . |
| 24 | Yoash ran away and was returned to the hostel . |
| 25 | It was sent by the museum to Skinner 's where it slipped through and was bought by a dealer who also failed to recognise its quality and sold it to a young couple for $550 . |
| 26 | I felt I was n't appreciate anymore and was suffering from the normal jealousies that a father has when the child monopolizes the mother 's attention . |
| 27 | It was from here , I reflected , looking through the windows at a small scattered town , that the despatcher had spoken to George and me the previous evening : and while I watched , George appeared outside and was met by a man who came from the station . |
| 28 | They were allowed ashore but were kept in the sixteenth-century São Lourenço fortress during their stay . |
| 29 | He was educated locally and was apprenticed at the Solihull nurseries of Messrs Hewitt . |
| 30 | She listened to cicadas and breathed the pervasive liquorice which grew locally and was processed in a factory on the Nîmes road . |