Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 2 | The early Pop artists — Lichtenstein , of course , but Warhol too — were fascinated early on by the possibilities of comic illustration . |
| 3 | These nearly opaque layers were stripped away along with several areas of retouching . |
| 4 | And so , without a pardon or any monetary compensation for ten years of wrongful imprisonment , Cooper and McMahon were shuffled discreetly out of prison to rejoin society , branded for the rest of their lives as convicted murderers . |
| 5 | The ‘ old ’ exchange rate index ( ERI ) used weights derived from an IMF model , and these weights were becoming increasingly out of date . |
| 6 | For the moment the sepoys , perplexed by his behaviour , were keeping well out of his way until they could think of some way of dealing with him . |
| 7 | They were climbing slowly back towards the cottage from the water 's edge . |
| 8 | Three ghostly shapes were forming gradually out of nothingness . |
| 9 | Funny thing was they had no gardens and were built right up against the old City Rampart . |
| 10 | When local government was reorganised in the mid 1970s , significant changes were made late on in the process but the Regional Council has been advised that this was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 11 | Some were hanging on the brambles and a few flat , wet clots were lying well out in open ground beyond the clump . |
| 12 | The large men were flooding largely back into the room . |
| 13 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 14 | People were moving slowly off to east and west . |
| 15 | Their claws were holding tightly on to the nooks and crannies of the walls . |
| 16 | Things were getting compellingly out of hand with Henna Mickiewicz . |
| 17 | These were dragged laboriously up to the terrace , and there ranged along the line of the filled-in ditches . |
| 18 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 19 | The French troops had not stopped in Frasnes , but were marching doggedly on towards Sharpe who supposed that their orders were to seize the crossroads at Quatre Bras before nightfall . |
| 20 | Cavalcades were riding quietly down to the ground , past trees indigo with recent rain , and cows and horses grazing alongside the faded grey ruins of the castle with its crenellated battlements and gaping windows . |
| 21 | There is a popular misconception that long-stay patients were dumped straight out of mental hospitals on the streets when they were abandoned . |
| 22 | HIGH-FLYING Newcastle were brought briefly down to earth at Oakwell yesterday . |
| 23 | Urquhart 's eyes were battened tight down into slits and he said nothing . |
| 24 | Carey could n't tell what had been said ; the words were spoken far back in Ellwood 's throat and seemed to gush from his mouth and nose like a great gulp of water swallowed too hastily . |
| 25 | The bodies of her parents Christopher , 39 , and Dawn , 29 , were found upstairs along with her four-year-old brother Paul . |
| 26 | He had a microphone in his hand and his eyes were set way back in his head , as if he 'd seen the Lord once too often . |
| 27 | In Yorkshire , Shipley was one of the centres of Communist activity but most of its members were arrested early on in the dispute . |
| 28 | The Marines were staring morosely out to sea , when a glimmer of unusual movement caught their eyes . |
| 29 | In fact , Elias Canetti once suggested that if the conductor were to turn fully round during a performance the spell he exerts would be broken . |
| 30 | The firm has six employees and many were taking home up to £165 a week , but all have agreed to draw just £100 . |