Example sentences of "[adv] and [pron] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was eight o'clock and everybody was at dinner . |
| 2 | Well it was shut on er Thursday , Saturday till four o'clock and nobody was in there and that was half past two ! |
| 3 | It was seven o'clock and she was in Tingle 's Wood , waiting for Rob . |
| 4 | The morning was wasting away and I was on a promise to deliver women for Simon down in Southwark . |
| 5 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 6 | The two men were alone together indoors and I was on the terrace . |
| 7 | So she went outside and she was in the act of pulling the shutters closed when a voice to her side said , ‘ What you up to ? ’ |
| 8 | If all went awry and there was to be a last ditch fight for the city , this is where it would take place . ) |
| 9 | In front of everyone else he was the same as always and it was like those nights were a bad dream . |
| 10 | We had a terrible time administering the company , which we had bought very cheaply and which was in disarray . |
| 11 | I got home and it was like , glowing and I 'm thinking oh my God ! |
| 12 | A few reassurances later and she was on her way to do battle at the bridge table . |
| 13 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 14 | God there was like a ra , I was on the computer today and there was like weeee really ringing sort of noise erm , I thought it was just you know , when you 're ears ring ? |
| 15 | It finishes tomorrow and it was for fifteen days . |
| 16 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 17 | He had the respect of all the players four years ago and everyone was behind him . |
| 18 | We had a lady pass away not very long ago and she was on my unit . |
| 19 | It was the air raid shelter then and we went down there and we was in the shelter and er we 'd been down there ten minutes to quarter of an hour oh there was such a bang outside we thought this is it , you know , all the bits and stones and rubbish and er that was stuck on the ceiling was disturbed you know and it down it on top of us , you know , all bits and plaster and water th it was er shi close . |
| 20 | ‘ We went to visit her there and she was like a trapped animal . |
| 21 | Spid I remember when me and my Mum had to catch one in a fishing net and throw it down the toilet cos my Dad were n't there and it was about that big ! |
| 22 | It 's of course always privilege to play over there and I was over there with a national team a few times , it 's a big occasion for the players , for the managers and for the big tournaments too . |
| 23 | Look at that time my dad did that lady over there and left me on the phone and told me to stay there and I was like that . |
| 24 | Now talking bout the Cosmo , I 'll come back to that again because there was a lad there and he was in the Independent Labour Party , and er his name was Eric and er this pamphlet will tell you said he answered more questions when he spoke , and at nineteen he was he spoke , he answered more questions than any other speaker had ever answered at the Cosmo you know he got a record for answering questions . |
| 25 | But they took her away instead and she was in gaol for a day and a night ; they released her because the State of Emergency ( 1960 ) which allowed the government to detain political prisoners without charge , had not yet been legally declared . |
| 26 | In fact , immediately after the launching she was hauled out of the water again and it was to be the following September before she was actually ready , even though an optimistic delivery for June had been promised . |
| 27 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 28 | The trio had abseiled down the shaft at about 12.30pm and it was after 9pm before Richard raised the alarm . |
| 29 | Tamar always seemed to be in a bad mood recently and he was at a loss to discover the reason . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw him quite recently and he was in a lot of pain , lying on the floor . |