Example sentences of "[was/were] [noun] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 2 | But now , with hopes of a breakthrough into the American market dashed , there were signs of retrenchment everywhere in British filmmaking . |
| 3 | Stephen was still in bed but sitting up and there were books on Vangmoor all over the quilt . |
| 4 | Erm what is now being proposed is a somewhat less regimented plan than we had before , if you remember there were lines of trees before in a very grid-like pattern across the marketplace . |
| 5 | The summit itself is crowned by a trig pillar , a huge cairn , and a walled shelter along with the remains of a celebratory tower built in 1838 to commemorate Victoria 's Coronation , but wrecked by revelling locals after the opening — there were problems with vandals even in those days ! |
| 6 | There were yards of slate here to there . |
| 7 | the following morning I went out no numberplate and there were bits of car all over the street but |
| 8 | and there were bits of fibreglass all over the street |
| 9 | From 1946 to 1952 he was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the department of philosophy and psychology at the University of Canterbury , Christchurch , New Zealand , and was professor of philosophy there from 1952 to 1958 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless Poland was still encumbered by a poorly developed industrial sector , a primitive , almost feudal , agricultural system , an under-funded banking sector and a poorly integrated railway system , and was hampered by the fact that it paid out 40 per cent of Gross National Income ( approximately 28 per cent of all government expenditure ) to maintain an army that was second in size only to that of Russia . |
| 11 | IAN Wright , the Arsenal striker , who is a scoring flop for England , was bang on target again for the Gunners against Ipswich at Highbury this afternoon . |
| 12 | get the , this was sort of part just along here |
| 13 | So many things happened over the last two rounds , it 's sometimes hard to remember the first two ; I just know it was Trevino versus Jacklin again in the third round and , of course , they were playing together once more . |
| 14 | I went out to water some plants and there was piles of soil all over the lawn — I was furious . |