Example sentences of "was come [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In my wildest dreams the most I expected was to come on and get maybe a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | The whole lot was to come down and make way for a million square feet of office space , and the company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner . |
| 3 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 4 | As I gazed around the orchard the sun was coming up and there was that peculiar smell of the Normandy countryside . |
| 5 | That 's what he called them , and he was worried because something big was coming up and it would get out of control . |
| 6 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 7 | But winter was coming on and our fear was that The Grange would suffer further grievous damage . |
| 8 | I almost caused an accident coming back from Bedford yesterday , there 's somebody in an X R three i right up my arse so I just coming onto the motorway , the M four to Bracknell and erm comes right up my arse and I had to come out cos there was this car coming on you know , from further up the the lane and it was coming on and I was already on , so I overtook it let it did to let it come out you know ? |
| 9 | I met our Tony and Helen as I was coming here and they told me not to be long . |
| 10 | throw I meant in fact to put them in my bag when I was coming here and I forgot . |
| 11 | We are very grateful for their support and their continued interest in our programme and I think they were er conscious of the fact that Vice President Pandolfi was coming here and so they have contacted him saying how essential they think it is that the work should continue here . |
| 12 | erm set of numbers , erm any way he was coming round and I just kept saying well I 'm stuck a minute , he says why , I says it does n't look right he says well why does n't it look right ? , he said well why does n't it look right ? , |
| 13 | ‘ And anyway , Marius said this boy was coming over and he was going to draw up a new will , and would we witness it ? … ’ |
| 14 | I was coming so but um |
| 15 | Slowly I was coming out but I was n't really aware of it . |
| 16 | Er it was it was great , it was er it was coming out and saying , There are lots of good things happening in this area . |
| 17 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |
| 18 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 19 | He had decided to find out when Adam was coming back and drive to Heathrow and meet the plane . |
| 20 | A gentleman stopped me as I was coming back and he said do you own a white Austin Metro . |
| 21 | The last time Oxford and Swindon met in January , the fog was coming down but the quality of the football was clear to see . |
| 22 | In a lull , she drifted up to see to the babies , but misjudged mounting the stair ; Bridhe , desperate for more hands , was coming down and grabbed her . |
| 23 | The tide was coming in and , as he rounded the rocks which screened the Cove , he saw two things : a courting couple doing what he felt to be far more than courting and then something a little further away which made his heart miss a beat . |
| 24 | Er the water was coming in and you could n't put mats on the floor . |
| 25 | as if the night was coming in and he could n't stop it . |
| 26 | No she , I think she was coming in and out cos the car door was open . |
| 27 | They were losing and she knew they were going to lose and their last bloke was coming in and she was cheering them on . |