Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1987 , when his days at Arsenal were well and truly numbered , Nicholas flew to the French Riviera with Arsenal 's chief executive Ken Friar . |
| 2 | Arsenal were home and dry . |
| 3 | ‘ Have the children not been told ? ’ the nursemaid enquired of Aunt Rose once Victoria and Richard were ahead and out of ear-shot . |
| 4 | Kieron Brady was the executinor … and Doncaster were home and dry … |
| 5 | In late October 1341 the king and Archbishop Stratford were solemnly and publicly reconciled , and a record of the occasion describes Derby as ‘ mediator in the settlement ’ . |
| 6 | Most of the farmers interviewed in the south-west of England were more than 50 year old , and the very small farms represented 30 per cent of all agricultural holdings in that region . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ The Tates were there and they sent a big wreath ; we ought to have invited them back with us . ’ |
| 8 | Now the bureaucrats and Louis were below while Gomez , lazily watchful , sat on the saloon cabin top . |
| 9 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 10 | it was taken last July fortnight because Jackie and Tom were away and that |
| 11 | I am aware that there was a steady decrease in the casualty figures and this was welcome to the Harris Offensive and also to the Mighty Eighth , but it always appeared to be that the Luftwaffe were just that one step ahead until , of course , the advent of D-Day and the advance of the Allies on the Continent . |
| 12 | BOTH nuclear reactors at Hunterston power station on the Clyde were suddenly and simultaneously shut down when the local electricity grid was hit by the severe gales last month , writes Severin Carrell . |
| 13 | Numerous Peases , Backhouses and Mounseys were there and the young man with the slicked back hair in the front row is Sir Charles Starmer . |
| 14 | Truman was reminded that it was an agreed military estimate that if Indo-China falls , ‘ very likely all of South-East Asia may come under communist domination ’ and , although it might not have seemed a very credible danger , it was pointed out that the Philippines were less than 800 miles from Indo-China . |
| 15 | Emigrations to both America and Australia were overland but after the ice-caps melted some 10000 years ago , those populations became isolated from the others . |
| 16 | A month or more before the March 17 announcement , IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard were partner-less and trudging around this huge all-encompassing mother of all application programming interfaces that they called ‘ Unified Unix ’ — despite Digital Equipment Corp 's recent appropriation of the name ( UX No 423 ) — to independent software vendors trying without success to get their support . |
| 17 | Just like when Mike and Steve were here and er they were going fucking wanker ! |
| 18 | Joey Beauchamp cracked it in … and Oxford were home and dry at 2-0 … |
| 19 | Gone are the more dynamic days of the early 1960s when even substantial rates of net migration loss from the larger cities to other parts of Britain were largely or completely offset by relatively high rates of natural increase and by immigration from overseas . |
| 20 | The former international , plagued by injury this season , was on the pitch for just 18 minutes but by the time he returned to the bench Holywood were home and dry . |
| 21 | In the dying minutes Bradford had Lee Sinot send off for arguing , but by then Swindon were home and well almost dry . |
| 22 | ( Mr and Mrs William Plowden were away and had sent their apologies . ) |
| 23 | Her relations with the real live Patrick were exactly as before . |
| 24 | It were always like , me and our Colin were more or less with me dad , and our Margaret and John were more or less for me mum . |
| 25 | The Stewarts were always and Charlie Stewarts the last of the f Stewarts but they were all great fiddlers there was the Stewarts and er my brother was a fiddler my father , and then Duncans and their pipes . |
| 26 | Moore and Burgess were there and G. H. Chirgwin the White-eyed Kaffir , Ballyhooley Lonnen , Hayden Coffin singing Love of my life … . |
| 27 | Luiza and Freddi were there but he knew they would be hopeless . |
| 28 | The Smiths were completely and hilariously out of the reach of the general press . |
| 29 | Charles Waterton and Richard Jeffreys were there and Gilbert White 's " Natural History of Selborne . " |
| 30 | Unlike BR , where the decline has been virtually continuous , numbers in RENFE were more or less static between the mid-1970s and 1984 . |