Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |
| 2 | Eventually , the management decided they were on to a loser , and the matter was allowed to sink into history . |
| 3 | The trick of public relations , Branson discovered , was not to pretend to be something you were not , but simply to project what you were on to a larger canvas . |
| 4 | Now er I could make a point here that when they introduced one man operated buses , they thought they were on to a new thing but one man operated buses were in this town before the war . |
| 5 | Sir Nicholas Fairbairn , a former Solicitor-General for Scotland , said some lawyers were deliberately spinning out cases and were on to a meal ticket . |
| 6 | I know he w she were on about a room were n't she ? |
| 7 | I thought I thought you were on about a book that |
| 8 | Yeah Craigy were on about a bus , a bus and erm little'un said bus . |
| 9 | Chorlton , mhm , he examined me , erm , he , he said now they were on about a slide on my heart . |
| 10 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 11 | Various offices remained in the gift of the Lord Treasurer and the Chancellor of the Exchequer , but they were mostly of a subordinate kind . |
| 12 | Leonora doubted that biscuits were much of a cure for what ailed her , but she bit into one meekly , deciding that the best policy was to fall in with Penry Vaughan 's wishes whenever possible , to keep the peace . |
| 13 | Even more striking were the elephants that once lived on Malta , and were only about a metre in height . |
| 14 | We were only about a yard from the fairway , but we had trouble finding the ball . |
| 15 | Third , by contrast with a modern bureaucracy , the departments of medieval government were only to a small extent defined by areas in which they worked . |
| 16 | Some were only on a month 's loan . |
| 17 | Six died he were , he were only in a week |
| 18 | I says , do n't tell me , I said , he did the same thing to me the other day , and it were only within a couple of days of each other . |
| 19 | The trio were together for a Christmas in Vienna concert in the city hall . |
| 20 | But the family were together for a tour of Harry 's dormitory , where the new boy — known at Ludgrove as a ‘ squit ’ — will sleep with three pals . |
| 21 | Helvin moved in , and they were together for a decade . |
| 22 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 23 | Harbury and Linda Finch were together at a table when she got there . |
| 24 | There was sweet nothing in the way of nectar and what duped flowers had burst out of the ground were in for a shock when the frosts came . |
| 25 | Whitton 's second , in the 38th minute , must have warned the crowd nearly 1,000 below the Recreation Ground 's 5,000 capacity that they were in for a dispiriting night . |
| 26 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 27 | He told them they were in for a terrific all singing , all dancing , all laughing evening in the company of a galaxy of West End stars , and he informed them , after a bow to the front row where the CO and his wife sat among the senior officers of the Battalion : |
| 28 | SHOPPERS at Bordon 's new Somerfield store were in for a surprise on Saturday , when the supermarket staged a Disney fancy dress competition . |
| 29 | LONG ago , on dark nights when storms lashed the treacherous coastline , wreckers knew they were in for a busy time . |
| 30 | We were in for a long , rough passage , battling into the wind for seven hours or more . |