Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [adj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well yeah you can tell her , tell her that Andy was sick all over her but you do n't have to say he slept over . |
| 2 | And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill , not with its legal technicalities . |
| 3 | The southern colonies , in the islands or on the American mainland , offered tobacco and other products that could be exchanged for English exports or help the London re-export trade , but the agricultural products of New England were similar enough to those of England to mean that there were not many openings for trade , and this meant that the differences caused by religion were not healed by close commercial relations . |
| 4 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 5 | Eva was halfway home in their hearts . |
| 6 | Only Korea was close enough to Japan to command a formal relationship of any significance , but this , too , was virtually halted during the Tokugawa period , when the kingdom of Korea , like Japan , adopted a seclusion policy . |
| 7 | Whether that means that we are currently re- inventing the wheel , or that the Aeronca was half-a-century ahead of its time , I leave for you to decide . |
| 8 | ROSS was impressed too with England 's performances in recent months and felt they scored some superb tries . |
| 9 | Michael Schumacher was fifth fastest in his Camel Benetton Ford and shares the third row of the grid with Jean Alesi 's Ferrari F92A , ahead of Martin Brundle in the second Benetton and Pierluigi Martini 's Dallara Ferrari . |
| 10 | Michael Schumacher was third fastest in a Benetton . |
| 11 | There was a strong babble of concerned voices , a thicket of hands reaching out to steady him , but Li Shai Tung was conscious only of the way his skin stung as if it were stretched too tightly over his bones — how his eyes smarted as if hot water had been thrown into them . |
| 12 | A second congress of the All-Russian Peasants ' Union in November was satisfied neither by the Manifesto nor by the announcement that redemption dues were to be phased out altogether , and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907 . |
| 13 | Stephen was close enough to his fellow evangelical , the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval , to be allowed to draft an order in council for a registry in the Crown Colony of Trinidad in 1812 . |
| 14 | It is actually a very good performance of the piece , so it is possible to conclude that Ravel was present only in an advisory capacity , if at all . |
| 15 | Coleridge 's first meeting with Tom Poole lasted less than a day , but in that short time Coleridge was expansive both on the subject of himself and his plans for the future . |
| 16 | She could almost hear the tick of its works , that and the beat of her heart ; for , if Rab was young enough to be her son , then her husband was old enough to be her father . |
| 17 | Bristol Crown Court heard that Jason Levy from Cheltenham set fire to a house in the town after breaking in , while Chloe Robinson was asleep upstairs with her parents . |
| 18 | Deprived of the support of the ruler of the eastern Angles , Eadwine was vulnerable also to undercurrents of restlessness in other parts of the Anglian world . |
| 19 | THAT 'S Life presenter Paul Heiney was shamefaced yesterday after forgetting to attend a charity cheque presentation . |
| 20 | The antes were at the $10,000-$20,000 level , and Dastmalchi was well ahead in chips when the crunch hand came . |
| 21 | In 1971 the UK was second only to the USA as a home base for multinational companies ; overseas production by British-based multinationals as a proportion of domestic output in 1977 was , at 40 per cent , higher than the corresponding figure for any other national economy except Switzerland ; and in 1971 nearly 20 per cent of UK output was produced by overseas based companies . |
| 22 | Not all economists accept that investment in the UK was sluggish even in the 1970s . |
| 23 | This conjures up the picture of Thomas the disciple who refused to believe that Jesus was alive again after being killed and buried unless he could see with his own eyes the evidence of the injuries Jesus 's body had received . |
| 24 | But on the whole , Soho was quiet enough for choir practice these days . |
| 25 | As soon as the infant Arthur was old enough to be propped against the proscenium arch , he was included in the turn . |
| 26 | Lee was cold suddenly as if she were sitting in a seawind . |
| 27 | Yet MacLeod was guilty only of falsely raising a nation 's hopes . |
| 28 | Already by the mid 1970s it appeared , however , that neutralisation under Great Power guarantees as elaborated by Malaysia was acceptable neither to the majority of Southeast Asian states nor to the external powers that count . |
| 29 | Bangor 's new coach Duncan Dysart was happy enough with the first sight of his charges last week and he will have a good opportunity to identify some grey areas when they make the trip to a high-scoring City of Derry tomorrow . |
| 30 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |