Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buxton was initially in despair at Stanley 's proposals but , judging that total rejection ran the risk of abandonment of emancipation , refused to divide the House on the principles of the bill on second reading and hoped for amendment at the committee stage . |
| 2 | When Tuesday arrived Shiona was still in the dark . |
| 3 | Immediately on his return from Gosol , while Gertrude Stein was still in Italy , he repainted the face , using the conventions of Iberian sculpture , although , since he was anxious to achieve a likeness , they appear in a slightly modified form . |
| 4 | ‘ But Kylie was not at all affected by it , ’ he added . |
| 5 | In 1973 Kylie was off to the local school , Camberwell primary . |
| 6 | Even Bert was not in his cubbyhole , but Flossie was and gave a languid thump of her tail . |
| 7 | ‘ We have a real big production screen , and as Jeff was in on the design of the set , I still feel him with me . |
| 8 | Jeff was obviously on at least a second drink . |
| 9 | Although the light was still clear , Hawkbit was not to be seen anywhere on the upland . |
| 10 | If Gharr was there for any reason to do with me , I 'd have to wait and find out . |
| 11 | Last week , Barratt returned to profit-making , and consequentially Sir Lawrie was back on their payroll . |
| 12 | In summer the smell of Flit was always with us . |
| 13 | Dr Neil was not in any way surprised at McAllister 's reaction to his lovemaking ; he expected such modesty from a well brought up young girl , and her arms around his neck , her timid responses , fluttering though they were , told him that she felt for him what he felt for her , and further inflamed his own passion , while warning him to go gently . |
| 14 | I really wish Marie was n't in Scotland . |
| 15 | But Marie was already inside the room . |
| 16 | But the conversation between Kelly Connor and Nick Morley was not of matters of the heart , but of life , death and horses . |
| 17 | AN inquiry is underway at the Serious Fraud Office following a leak suggesting that former boxer George Walker was about to be arrested . |
| 18 | David Adams was out of work and money was tight . |
| 19 | Schellenberg was already on his way . |
| 20 | Lady Eleanor was already at Godstowe . |
| 21 | She knew Donna was up to something . |
| 22 | Picasso was also throughout his life astonishingly prolific and during the Cubist years produced between three and four times as many works as Braque . |
| 23 | HEATHCLIFF HAD GIVEN me a letter for Catherine , but I decided not to show it to her until Mr Edgar was out of the house . |
| 24 | Meredith was not to be led away from the point at issue . |
| 25 | Turning , Meredith was just in time to glimpse a man standing by one of the loose-boxes . |
| 26 | Meredith was still in the parlour , and Bunny . |
| 27 | Dick Hansen was also in love with this aircraft since childhood . |
| 28 | Joyce Barr was again in commanding form as she lifted the ladies ' title bearing Margaret Holligan of Economics . |
| 29 | Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu . |
| 30 | Ceauşescu was not after all Pol Pot , though in his last hours on earth perhaps he wished that he had been . |