Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [pron] was [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no great amount of money coming in and one was continually minding the pennies . |
| 2 | And then I was called in and nothing was ever said ‘ Well do this because ’ , but it felt that ‘ if you do n't do this … you know ? ’ |
| 3 | After the decision in and which was only reported on the fifth of October of this year in the all England reports . |
| 4 | Well I said , I was born in and I was also born in Terrace . |
| 5 | Two other police cars joined in and he was finally stopped . |
| 6 | She come in , she was alright when she come in and she was just speaking as usual , she went up to bed |
| 7 | Oh yeah I walk down and she was just coming down here . |
| 8 | ‘ When you went to sleep , you were coasting along and everything was just floating . |
| 9 | ‘ There was this one scene where Dustin first did it by coming on very strong as the scene opened and then gradually bringing things down until everything was just suggested by innuendo and gestures . |
| 10 | She shut the door in his face , too hurt and confused to allow him in until she was safely dressed . |
| 11 | Fidelma put her pennyworth in before she was finally banished . |
| 12 | He stored it up — the mind 's ability to store is inexhaustible — and wrote it down when he was finally released . |
| 13 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 14 | For a moment or two Billy was too relieved even to ask what he was doing in the house , or how he 'd managed to get in when it was all locked up . |
| 15 | The biggest challenge was convincing Bruce that there are other ways than corks on strings , but once over that there was no stopping him ! |
| 16 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 17 | I 'm going back to the erm controversial emotive subject of atomic power I suppose , as you said earlier , the the atomic bomb and erm I suppose the most worrying thing for er for everybody was when erm the Cuba crisis was on and everybody was just waiting for these mushrooms to appear over London because we all thought we were gon na be bombed at any time but er obviously the other thing that sort of worries people is other things that you said about Chernobyl and Three Mile Island but on the other side , obviously the erm the low cost of atomic power must be the advantage for the future . |
| 18 | He turned back to stare at me as he was hauled off and he was still grinning . |
| 19 | They passed a counter above which hung trusses of pigeons , pheasants and other less identifiable but more disturbing birds ; Helen grabbed Edward 's arm to hurry him on but he was already gazing at a row of hares suspended by their feet from a rack . |
| 20 | The makers of Until The End Of The World own up that it was actually shot in Bolton with some clever filters and a broken Nintendo |
| 21 | he said erm of course er when they got there he said it was full up and there was nowhere to go he says , she says well it always is full at Christmas is n't it . |
| 22 | When your mother was sort of having a lot of a lot of children and and after you you know you you were growing up and she was still having children erm had you any idea of erm the processes by which all this was coming about ? |
| 23 | ‘ You must have been so relieved when Ross turned up and it was all sorted out . ’ |
| 24 | Again she speeded up until she was almost running , then laughed at Ember 's wry expression as the whole thing developed into a silly race . |
| 25 | He was screwing his face up but he was still doing it . |
| 26 | Partners and competitors of IBM Corp that have suffered at the company 's hands will feel a sense of schadenfreude that the company is brought so low , and will reflect on how right they were when they said back in the late 1970s and early 1980s that if the US Justice Department split the company up as it was then threatening to do , they would have four or six IBMs to compete with rather than just one . |
| 27 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 28 | And this time I did n't have to walk on because I was already installed on the sofa when the show began . |
| 29 | Copersucar , the Brazilian sugar giant and Emerson 's chief sponsor , found itself in serious political trouble when it turned out that it was indirectly financing the vigilante groups who kept Sao Paulo in a state of severe political repression during those years . |
| 30 | Indeed IBM was ready with a fulsome endorsement of OSI , pointing out that it was already developing OSI software in both Europe and California ; OSI research was already under way at IBM 's European Networking Center at Heidelberg , and various IBM products already supported the first five of OSI 's seven layers . |