Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had dreamed of somewhere that was beyond the fence . |
| 2 | On the Tuesday I went in and they said that a letter would follow right that was on the Tuesday the twenty first something like that , then I never heard nothing from them until this came lunchtime post this Monday recorded delivery . |
| 3 | Perhaps this was in the Collector 's mind as he lay there , silent and motionless now that the fever had left him and he was beginning to recover . |
| 4 | raised area there , so this was like a piano bar |
| 5 | This exercise revealed that , although there were problems with the availability of information to support the finance function , generally these were outside the control of the OIC . |
| 6 | Mostly these were on the west coast where glaciers moved faster since the snowfall was heavier near the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 7 | Coincidentally this was at the height of the News International affair , which undoubtedly provided a severe test for the Code and its guidelines . |
| 8 | Well that was on a Tuesday I believe the letter 's on the desk there . |
| 9 | That well that was after the slaughterhouse , all the controls come off . |
| 10 | Maybe that was for the cat , too . |
| 11 | John Wain — another Movement novelist — is said to have voted Conservative as early as 1951 , before he ever published a book , as if silently laying down a marker for the future : but then that was in the days of Winston Churchill . |
| 12 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 13 | Fortunately this was in a pilot survey and the warning was heeded in the survey proper . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ Maybe this was in a fit of pique when the relationship was down rather than up . |
| 15 | She could not see how much was in the scarf , only that there were a lot of pound coins among the others . |
| 16 | ‘ We may never know exactly how many were on the ferry , ’ US Coast Guard Petty Officer Joe Dye said yesterday in Miami . |
| 17 | How many were at the school ? |
| 18 | He showed a box of matches , shook them and asked a volunteer to guess how many were in the box . |