Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [noun] was " in BNC.

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1 The association between the nature of the referral and whether the referral was received in or out-of-hours was explored for any interesting patterns .
2 I suddenly started thinking that he knew , he knew all along that Elsie was n't dead at all , that she was still alive .
3 He was boxing her in and Lisa was starting to panic .
4 Alain Prost , France 's triple world champion , had moved in and Mansell was unwilling to play second fiddle .
5 And so that means erm he come in he come in and Danielle was lying across my arm like that and he
6 A psychiatrist was called in and Max was given the treatment he needed , but only after serving a month in Brixton .
7 When the tumult died down and Seb was able to hear himself speak , he asked Noah , ‘ Do you really know the Duke of Marlborough ? ’
8 Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft .
9 The Northern Rebellion began with a march upon Durham cathedral , where Protestant furnishings were torn down and mass was celebrated .
10 Elizabeth Woodville 's voice was unusually stern — her defences were down and attack was the better part of defence .
11 The rain sheaved down and Snowdon was wreathed in cloud .
12 And they want to come and see the factory , they want to go to yeah , it fell down cos Richard was too busy at the end of last year , fine get that sorted and i Sally was dropped in the crap by right at the end of last year , came on five sets of bearings , I could 've done 'em in two weeks .
13 There was speculation that former Sunderland manager Denis Smith could be ready to step in if Gray was ousted .
14 I 'd go in if Marie was with me , but I 'm on my own and I might have a bit of difficulty with the menu .
15 We were all going to go to Mark called in because Daniel was ill .
16 Shakespearean editors are showing considerable innovation in moving away from the view that Shakespeare had a fixed conception for his plays , where variants between texts are ‘ error of transmission ’ , corruptions which crept in because Shakespeare was not involved in preparing his plays for print .
17 ‘ After all , he and Bishop Jon were brought in because Malduin was n't doing his job .
18 Nails concentrated hard and found the stride about once in every two circles , but could not keep with it for more than two or three strides before he lost his balance and came down while Midnight was coming up .
19 He went straight out , went to four families , whose names immediately suggested themselves to him , checked his facts and figures , got in while discussion was still on and flatly contradicted the great John and gave him the facts and figures to prove it , to tell him that he was wrong .
20 Francis drifted in while Jay was changing .
21 The loss of confidence which set in after Stalingrad was not least a consequence of the totally misleading and outrightly mendacious German propaganda which had preceded the catastrophe .
22 The more conservative Viktor Chernomyrdin was voted in after Yeltsin was pressured into withdrawing his support for Gaidar .
23 Coventry manager Bobby Gould , who moved in after Quinn was transfer-listed earlier this week , would have to pay about Pounds 200,000 to land him .
24 He brushed aside charges that the Government had reneged on its election promises last year by comparing the Government borrowing crisis with the early years of the Thatcher Government in which , he said , taxes had to rise before they could be brought down after borrowing was stabilised .
25 Paul used to turn the thermostat down when John was not looking .
26 He came in when Sophie was giving her booster injection to her client 's dog , and as soon as she had finished with them he confronted her .
27 On one occasion Zborowski came in when Modigliani was painting a standing nude .
28 The latter came in when Paul was halfway through ; he was a gentle Scot in the late twenties , with slanting blue eyes , a fresh skin , and thinning light-brown hair .
29 ‘ We have one or two players of that age breaking through and Kevin was the one who got the opening , ’ Jordan said .
30 The First World War was over and Europe was once again open for pleasure .
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