Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bacteria were behaving as if they ‘ knew ’ the glucose was there and were responding adaptively . |
| 2 | ‘ I was told that Mr Morley was here and I just needed a brief word . ’ |
| 3 | Next time she dared look back , the guard in her niche was below and out of sight but there was another just above . |
| 4 | In the event , Leeds chose to play a rather strange formation in which McAllister operated at right-back and Speed was anywhere but where he is most effective , on the left flank . |
| 5 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 6 | The mound of masonry was still and silent . |
| 7 | In the United States , the Supreme Court held in the great case of The New York Times v Sullivan that no libel action could succeed if the plaintiff was a public figure and the allegation was honestly and diligently made . |
| 8 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 9 | A members ' club was obviously and clearly envisaged from conception , rather than a private company club as at Huntercombe . |
| 10 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 11 | I knew exactly where it stood because one of our pampas bushes was there and , in the middle of it , a coloured ball of Tony 's . |
| 12 | But , now and then , she wanted to be at his side when his mind was still and there was nothing there but the sweetness within the forbidding exterior ; and the love . |
| 13 | The priest was there and everything , and he told us to sit down . |
| 14 | The best TV programme was Home And Away . |
| 15 | And Lucy was blithely or otherwise ignoring that fact . |
| 16 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 17 | and the furry monster was there and the church bells rang unceasingly , my muse was red with righteous anger , o my love , and her hound barked at the furry monster and her frankfurter but i did not let them see me for worshipping in silence is the artist 's choice , that is the way for growth . |
| 18 | I , I , I was supposed to have a lift , and erm I was waiting like I say ten to five we knock off half one you see and the guy never turned up , the car was there but |
| 19 | If that car was there and |
| 20 | The acorn which resulted in the foundation of the College was obscurely and unwittingly planted when , in 1783 , at a meeting on 16 May at the George Inn in the small market town of Odiham in Hampshire , there was established , on the proposition of William Terry of Yately , a ‘ society for encouraging Agriculture and Industry in the said Town and its Neighbourhood ’ . |
| 21 | As sale voucher schemes were extended , the crime was more and more concentrated near district borders . |
| 22 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 23 | ‘ But the night before last , when we were in the garden , you knew Didi was here and it did n't seem to bother you overmuch . ’ |
| 24 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 25 | All went well until the dreadful day when Killigrew was away and a letter arrived for Mistress A. Killigrew . |
| 26 | Well after you discharged the ship cos all the blood was there and erm they used to have to wash them holds all out then and this bacon was put on open lorries and taken to London , put in the refrigerator . |
| 27 | Dr John Gauden , who had managed to hold the Deanery of Bocking successively as an Anglican and as a Presbyterian , secretly claimed that ‘ This book and figure was wholly and only my making and design ’ , and demanded his reward . |
| 28 | They believed that this course of action was morally and politically desirable despite the fact that the manufacture of napalm did not generate much profit , that the company 's manufacturing facilities could have been more profitably employed in the manufacture of some other chemical , and that the company 's public image and recruitment activities were being damaged by the continued manufacture of napalm . |
| 29 | Unfortunately for Thacker the wind was offshore and instead of drifting over the island he went the opposite direction out to sea . |
| 30 | ‘ I know Mr Yates was n't very happy and I can sympathise , unfortunately the law was there and we could n't turn a blind eye . |