Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were on to Dead Lib again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When you were on about that love , what pa was saying about , you know , like every night , that our kids , when , they had their pyjamas on , and they 're like , to get hold , I 'm lying watching television , I 'm usually falling asleep , but I put the kids , you know . |
| 4 | I , he asked me the one , you know , we were on about this morning , the only one we looked at , fifty miles an hour and he asked me that one and I knew it . |
| 5 | We could hear them banging about , shifting things and wondered nervously if we were in for another move . |
| 6 | I thought we were in for some stability . |
| 7 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
| 8 | So you were in for ten minutes and rushed them out and out again then |
| 9 | Theodora got in exactly at nine every day and punctiliously greeted whoever of the clergy were in at that hour . |
| 10 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and her friend Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 11 | Karen Reilly ( 18 ) and Martin Peake ( 17 ) died when soldiers opened fire on the stolen car they were in at Upper Glen Road . |
| 12 | The chief executive , Partick Dromgoole , said sales in September were down on last year . |
| 13 | Initial reports suggest that visitor numbers were down on previous years , but that the quality of enquiry was high , helped by the positive reaction of visitors responding to specific areas of business on display . |
| 14 | And right at the death , when Bangor were down to 14 men with scrum half Stephen Matchett receiving treatment , McMaster finished off a fine move sparked by McCall 's half break . |
| 15 | At one stage in the game they were down to 11 men , but their shortcomings should not be allowed to detract from Warrington 's impressively positive performance , the home side contributing much that was memorable in a thrilling and thunderously received encounter . |
| 16 | The tiny protection parties for these three squads were down to 10 men through casualties before landing , but they led the way , stifling small arms fire from near the burning Forge de l'Ouest , then clearing an enemy trench in a skirmish round a dockside crane . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And then we were down to five shillings a week , there was four of us you see , five shillings a week relief . |
| 19 | It has taken eighty years for the red kite to recover from near-extinction at the end of the last century when numbers were down to four pairs in a remote part of Wales . |
| 20 | And we were down to sixty seconds when the referee did Watford another favour spotting an elbow in the face and sticking to his guns . |
| 21 | By then Cambridge were down to ten men after skipper Danny O'Shea had been sent off in the 70th minute for a second bookable offence . |
| 22 | Up to this point as I said Leeds had been on top — this included a period when Hodge was off the field after colliding with a Crewe player and injuring his wrist , thus Leeds were down to ten men . |
| 23 | The youngster 's display was the only plus in a 2–1 defeat ; Ellison missed a penalty when the scores were level , and Mitch Cook was sent off for swearing at a linesman ironically Pickering scored his first goal for the club when Quakers were down to ten men . |
| 24 | ‘ I am very proud of what he and the rest of the team did in the second half when we were down to ten men , ’ said Smith . |
| 25 | He pointed out that on 3 March 1942 , his original recruits were down to three officers and thirteen men , and if brought up to strength they could be far better employed as a raiding force than as instructors for the proposed Indian units . |
| 26 | Operating costs in 1992 were down by some £29 million ( 22% ) compared to 1990 , partly achieved by the continuing redundancy programme which cost the company £1.7 million to implement last year . |
| 27 | Industry estimates are that sales were down by 12 p.c. on the year at about 140,000 . |
| 28 | Masts , sails and cordage were down in tangled confusion , the proud ships suddenly mere lumbering hulks of wreckage emitting the screams of injured men . |
| 29 | To think that during the Blitz , families , stout-hearted folk , were down in these caverns holding hands beneath blankets and whistling the stirring refrains of Dame Vera Lynn . |
| 30 | Both missed and the underdogs were through by one hole . |