Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the prospect was alarming enough and it was a gloomy festival at Christmas 1978 . |
| 2 | ‘ We were under a great deal of pressure in Paris , the ball was not coming out quickly enough and it was a very poor playing surface . |
| 3 | When you first performed Too Much Love Will Kill You at Freddie 's tribute concert at Wembley , you played it solo and there was a point where you paused and the audience went a little wild . |
| 4 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 5 | He had a tremendous gift , some of it a little theatrical but we all loved him very much and he was a great popular success . ’ |
| 6 | People are doing it for him because they loved him very much and he was a very funny guy as well as a kind person . |
| 7 | Jesus , Saint Peter and James and John had just been on the mountain top at the site of the transfiguration , a high point in the gospel story , and right on the heels of that they descended into the valley below and there was a crowd with Jesus ' others disciples . |
| 8 | He was a man to whom fair dealing came naturally and he was a just , if firm , master . |
| 9 | I did so and I was the one who bought the half-bottle of brandy at the off-licence on the way back . |
| 10 | Although several quite good photographs of the original clock existed these were in plan elevation only and there was no indication of the dimensions , particularly the depth . |
| 11 | She spoke very nicely and she was a very nice person but she was a little bit er you know , It 's disgusting , she used to say . |
| 12 | Sadly , Marks did not last very long and he was the first of the Commanding Officers of the four founder squadrons to he lost in battle ; this was flat only great loss to the squadron , hut certainly to the Pathfinders . |
| 13 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 14 | Put all these together and there was a struggle for faith . |
| 15 | It lasted longer and it was a better hit as well . |
| 16 | My little boy Connor , who is five , took to Gemma straight away and we were a really happy family . |
| 17 | It was the magical hour after the lunch shift , when everyone had gone away and there was no sound louder than the hoover . |
| 18 | The shed was at least twenty yards away and there was no cover . |
| 19 | Today I got away and there was no way I was going to let my lead slip . |
| 20 | He needed his car to get to work as the factory was 16 miles away and there was no public transport . |
| 21 | The sidings were situated about half a mile away and there was a water-tower nearby . |
| 22 | But Blattern muttered and walked away and there were no letters that morning . |
| 23 | and the last time he said take it away for a week and see if it 's any better , so he took it away and it were no better so he took it down to Paul and somebody from come and had a look at it and said it 's injector problems |
| 24 | Well Pete walked in on them and apparently they were butt naked and shagging away and it was a load of crap . |
| 25 | Sister Bernadette , one of the eight travelling , said : ‘ We had to give our answer straight away and it was the unanimous yes . |
| 26 | With increased duration of follow up , the number of patients who either did not require any dilatation or needed only one dilatation in six months , increased progressively and there was a simultaneous reduction in the number of patients requiring two or more dilatations . |
| 27 | I was going out anyway and I was a bit surprised to find nobody there . ’ |
| 28 | Destination boxes were not fitted until just before their transfer elsewhere and there was a deck lamp on an upright stanchion near the stairheads . |
| 29 | It was next , it was next to H & T Hornes and erm I , I think they used to do the casting there and then all the castings had to come into , for us to file and it was hard work but er there was erm a big bell to tell us when to stop work and that was outside and there was a big notice in the department , wait for the bell or |
| 30 | All of us had been hit several times already and there was a correct way of dealing with it . |