Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but usually you were off school right from the person died to the to after the funeral . |
| 2 | I keep thinking it 's were off school yesterday . |
| 3 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 4 | And although he does reserve his party pieces for his formidable long-range free kicks , most of those were off target apart from one effort which hit a post late on . |
| 5 | I just knew there were certain places I could n't go because they were for blacks only , ’ he says . |
| 6 | The Druids were for Posidonius more important than the other two groups because they provided leadership , moral and religious ideas , and justice . |
| 7 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 8 | It was tacitly assumed that such activities were for grown-ups only . |
| 9 | ft. ) and slightly more than one acre of land were for sale very cheaply at £ 1,200 . |
| 10 | Mr O'Hara Labour MP for Knowsley South was unhappy over the ‘ insensitive ’ wording which made it clear the payments were for people not expected to live longer than six months . |
| 11 | Other hallowed encounters which I enjoyed , such as London Irish v Bedford , were for diversion merely . |
| 12 | Most were for cars not starting due to battery failure and people forgetting to put anti-freeze in their radiators . |
| 13 | The better of them were for viola alone , including Brian Cherney 's Shekhinah , in its first performance : this alternates furious tremolando , sudden violent attack , and wistful melody , invented or quoted . |
| 14 | Secondly , the reformed monasteries of the tenth century were of necessity largely aristocratic in composition , and had they been perceived to have no function in aristocratic society , they could not have been as successful as they were . |
| 15 | Many of the slides were of boxes now demolished . |
| 16 | Some other records between November and February may refer to wintering rather than wandering birds , but otherwise all reports were of birds apparently passing through . |
| 17 | These contrasting forms of liberty of the individual will and the corporate body , which we may call Anselmian and Gregorian , were of course not mutually exclusive . |
| 18 | Our agitations were of course not so much for ourselves , for we were all comfortably enough off — that is to say we could afford a bottle of wine every now and then and very few of us rose with the dawn and laboured until nightfall — but sprang from a burning sense of general injustice or a generalized sense of burning injustice , whichever quote 's the best or whichever your readers prefer . |
| 19 | The internal hierarchies of the print system were of course broadly coherent with more general social hierarchies , or they could not have been so effective . |
| 20 | This dissociation also appears if the data are split on the basis of mean risk ratings ( which were of course strongly related to ratings for number of moving objects — r(46)=0.47 , p<0.01 across studies and r(46)=0.65 , p<0.01 within the rating scales study ) . |
| 21 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 22 | Gifts of a modest size were of course perfectly tolerable . |
| 23 | Bienvida and Jasper were of course still there . |
| 24 | The economic advantages of a large family or an interlocking connection of families were of course still substantial . |
| 25 | Ideas of salvation and conversion were of course inextricably linked in Rose of Lima 's culture ; and this clear , driving sense of purpose in her life must not be underestimated if she is to reveal anything to us in a historical sense . |
| 26 | Street kids — and their elders , the Liverpool ‘ bucks ’ — were of course inevitably guilty of whatever charge the patrolling constable thought appropriate . |
| 27 | We were of course much hampered by the lack of weather reports to the west of us , as most of our weather comes from the west and Eire , being neutral in the war , did n't supply us with any reports . |
| 28 | The products of their industry were of course quite fresh and unpatinated , whereas the genuine flint artefacts had a white or brown patination especially if buried in chalky soil . |
| 29 | Monteverdi 's Vespers were of course quite exceptional , yet common Venetian and North Italian practices were better adapted to the expression of human emotion than of transcendental faith . |
| 30 | You were of course entirely right . ’ |