Example sentences of "[adv] they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one knows what these carved objects might have been for , so perhaps they were n't for anything , but a heartening prehistoric example of art for art 's sake . |
| 2 | But perhaps they were always like this . |
| 3 | On the following day , the day of their return ( only they were not to be expected until the late evening ) Franca , who was so used to being by herself , was unable to perform any ordinary activity . |
| 4 | We were in this theatre watching The Crucible ( no great significance about that , the Sixth Form had tried out their exam text on us ) only they were n't on a stage , they were up on tight-ropes , and it was our job as audience to keep them up there , and we did that by holding our breaths . |
| 5 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |
| 6 | Watford though were a tough bunch … they were n't going to lie down and die and sure enough they were back with an equaliser from Ken Charlery … |
| 7 | So they were there for me to see as they came in , etc . |
| 8 | But Ianthe seemed not to know how to answer Sophia 's remark and soon they were on to another topic — the strangers in the parish and whether it was likely that they would come to church . |
| 9 | And er they were just they were just in the in the act of of of tapping of tapping a couple of these barrels , and er i it was unfortunate that the that the police showed up . |
| 10 | Individually they were always at pains to stress the provisional nature of the conceptual apparatus , and their flexibility can be seen in the way in which the theory evolved to include new topics such as narrative and literary history . |
| 11 | Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom . |
| 12 | At once they were all around her , perching up on their hindlegs like scrawny otters in black leather and chrome earbands . |
| 13 | The 1861 census enumerator had caught the family at the height of its expansion ; 10 years later they were down to two children , one of whom would be leaving home very shortly . |
| 14 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |
| 15 | Anyhow , the next morning I got up they were all over the deck , they crawled out of the bloody bucket . |
| 16 | You did n't have to be a genius to work out they were n't from the Lord 's Day Observance Society . |
| 17 | By now they were upstairs in the front bedroom , and Gloria was pouring hot water into the washbasin , preparing the shampoo . |
| 18 | Now they were on to stones . |
| 19 | Chorlton , mhm , he examined me , erm , he , he said now they were on about a slide on my heart . |
| 20 | Now they were practically in the afterlife , and here it all was again … . |
| 21 | Back at my desk I sat thinking about our East End hospitals , now they were out of action . |
| 22 | There would be further set-backs as one lean spell caused the factions to surface again , but now they were truly under way and in due course their supremacy would become complete . |
| 23 | Now they were down to living on his salary alone , this was an important factor . |
| 24 | And now they were back to one of their major problems , she thought a little grimly . |
| 25 | Now they were back among the sodium , passing yellow pre-war flats — Keeps , Courts , and Mansionses , with yellow gables and yellow weatherboarding . |
| 26 | Now they were back in the Lowlands again , once more bound to the rivet-gun and the crane , the furnace and the foundry . |
| 27 | By now they were in among thickening crowds of people , nodding to acquaintances and looking out for their own key men from down the valley . |
| 28 | Often they were just on the edge of being happy . |
| 29 | Cos I mean presumably they were n't between eighteen fifty and nineteen fifty they were n't practising excessive birth control |
| 30 | and had one on New Year 's Eve or Christmas Eve or something , they came in , a couple were passing , well they were only on holidays and they were looking , well our house is different I mean |