Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 2 | DETECTIVES were yesterday following up a number of leads after an appeal on national television for information about a Darlington building society robbery . |
| 3 | He took a handkerchief from the pocket of his trousers which were still hanging on a hook behind him . |
| 4 | LONG BEFORE Negativland got right up U2 's collective nose , they were busily cranking out a different kind of musical anarchy . |
| 5 | The F T Associates which is er includes the Economist in Spain was up a lot and Westminster Press was er was down , but of course Westminster Press took a major redundancy charge , they were also bringing on a new plant at Brighton and therefore running two plants simultaneously which is very costly er and they launched on Sunday . |
| 6 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 7 | They were now gathered around a large rock , on which stood a rather ordinary looking , dark haired , middle-aged man . |
| 8 | They were now walking along a narrow lane that was no more than a rutted cart-track . |
| 9 | According to one of the skippers , each hunting trip cost on average over US$130 more than the crew received for the catch — the fishermen were simply carrying on a proud and noble tradition , even though it cost them money . |
| 10 | It was not suggested that either the solicitors , who were simply carrying out a straightforward conveyancing transaction , or Mrs G herself , had any criminal or quasi-criminal intent or were aware of the suspected intent of the alleged drug trafficker . |
| 11 | His remains were then hung on a gibbet as a warning to others . |
| 12 | PC Reid , a second RUC officer and a group of soldiers had just emerged from a field and were about to set up a roadblock on the Castleblaney Road on the outskirts of the town , when the shot rang out . |
| 13 | The partnership was successfully liquidated over a period of years and it was left to John Baring to rebuild the business in the form of a limited company . |
| 14 | When the factory was occupied in protest , the Ministry of Labour declared the strike illegal and the occupation was forcibly broken up a week later . |
| 15 | Moreover , the bill purchases were due to a large extent to overfunding of the PSBR through sales of gilts so the Bank was effectively carrying out a maturity transformation in the market and one which , at times , entailed a " cost " ( as bill yields were lower than gilt yields ) . |
| 16 | But now it was all opening up a little . |
| 17 | More orthodox critics feared that he was only stoking up a consumer boom which would reap the whirlwind in a vast price inflation . |
| 18 | At first , I was only going out a coupla days a week . |
| 19 | Whereas The Snail that Climbed the Eiffel Tower had allowed Minton to rework , in lighter and more decorative form , imagery coined in his landscape drawings of the mid-1940s , Time Was Away opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 20 | He would have ducked inside — he was in his working clothes with not even a stud to his shirt — ; but Meredith was already calling out a greeting and advancing towards him . |
| 21 | They thought he was reaching for an ornamental knife when in fact he was just picking up a pair of socks . |
| 22 | ‘ I was just clearing up a few points with Dr Blake . ’ |
| 23 | In answer to my office colleagues who saw me manhandling a hopper-shaped device into my car boot the other week : no , I was not setting up a home distillery , merely preparing to field-test a pond filter . |
| 24 | For once I was not travelling along a public road and here I was thinking about falling and having a broken ankle and nobody knowing to look for me . |
| 25 | I was once chuntering down a slope in the peaty Mount Keen country above the Angus glens and leapt off the top of an eroded peat hag . |
| 26 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
| 27 | Even if he was still paying off a mortgage , he had to be making at least £2,500 a year out of us , not counting the fact that the property had quadrupled in value . |
| 28 | Along this trench , oceanic crust with ophiolites and " turbidites " coming from the south-east was probably consumed down a Benioff zone . |
| 29 | And beside him , an elderly priest in a black soutane was also holding up a thumb and laughing as though he were taking part in a particularly outrageous joke . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , he was also building up a store of resentment which might be inconvenient in a crisis . |