Example sentences of "[adv] [det] was [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence .
2 Oh aye right , right that was for your x-rays Robert .
3 On the Tuesday I went in and they said that a letter would follow right that was on the Tuesday the twenty first something like that , then I never heard nothing from them until this came lunchtime post this Monday recorded delivery .
4 Did the first one right this was on er Wednesday afternoon you see ?
5 Apparently that was on television last week , they were , did a programme about tigers do n't know whether anyone saw it .
6 So that was on her
7 And then we liked it so that was for ever more .
8 So that was to be her by-name — the Rose ?
9 So that was to be the landing place , on July 4th .
10 that 's disgraceful that yeah and so that was from erm Street down to the and down the back so it would n't take , did n't take him a couple of minutes down to the mission
11 So that was after the purple carpet ?
12 so that was like one week
13 So , so that was in her share of the management .
14 Naturally this was like a red rag to a bull and I refused to even consider such a course of action .
15 It was said that um when he was a baby his nurse used to masturbate him in the cradle t to calm him to stop him crying and er apparently this was at that time , so it was believed , quite a common way of of keeping infants quiet .
16 Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover .
17 At that time the navigator and bombardier starting going on missions because evidently they were short so by the time the Gdynia mission came around the bombardier and the , and the er navigator had missions under their belt so this was to be my first mission .
18 Yes so this was through the
19 raised area there , so this was like a piano bar
20 In 1811 most mule spinners could earn only half of their peak earnings ; even so this was in most cases more than the earnings of fully employed weavers .
21 So much was at stake that jokes were few and far between .
22 That was especially true of his championship year , when so much was at stake .
23 She 'd done it before and she could do it again , especially as so much was at stake .
24 The best that was on offer from the National Refugee Service in New York was cooperation to ‘ get in touch with American relatives and affiants and attempting to secure the steamship fare , or as much of it as possible , from them ’ .
25 Perhaps you brought out the best that was in me and I was grateful for that .
26 Soon this was to be entered and then only Tibet and Ethiopia would remain for a time unresponsive to European politics , ideas and technology .
27 Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines .
28 General de Gaulle wrote to Ho Chi Minh on 8 February 1966 , stressing that peace could only be restored by a return to non-intervention ; the United States was not named , but clearly this was in de Gaulle 's mind .
29 Of this , comparatively little was from Walter Machin himself , and some of these Greg had already seen in the Sunday paper articles .
30 Well now it was largely , I think as a result of all that that three years later , now that was in nineteen twenty seven towards the latter of nineteen twenty seven , there was an opportunity for a detective to be appointed on a series of promotions .
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