Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were only in for a quiet drink , is a' . ' |
| 2 | ‘ We were just out for a picnic and bit of sightseeing . |
| 3 | We were just out for a ride , We came here by accident . |
| 4 | I also met the Marquess of Hartington , who , since he took over as Senior Steward of the Jockey Club in July , has worked extremely hard and is already greatly respected in that role ; also Mr and Mrs Johnny Henderson who were shortly off after a business trip to Australia via Bangkok , and home via Dubai , where alas , they arrive after I will have left : Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins , he was one of the stewards ; the Hon. |
| 5 | They were badly caught out by Wednesday night 's opinion poll results , which suggested the Tories were still in with a chance . |
| 6 | They were still in with a shout . |
| 7 | Colin Hamilton 's Gogar and Douglas Dryburgh 's Aviemore were on five wins each and the four looked likely to make tomorrow 's semi-finals , though David Aitken 's Galleon were still in with a chance . |
| 8 | Pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan were closed ; and gas supplies from Russia via Georgia were also down by a third , due to a combination of pressure from Azerbaijan , pilfering , and local disruption . |
| 9 | A study published by the National Association of Citizens ' Advice Bureaux revealed that 80 per cent of the claimants seen by the bureaux were worse off as a consequence of the new system . |
| 10 | Since previously only about one in three advertised charter trains actually ran ( there were indeed up to a hundred independent rail tour operators ) , the new regime immediately brought a crop of casualties , including in 1985 the Rail Tour Operators Association , the very organisation which had been established at Ward 's insistence to negotiate train hire on behalf of all independents . |
| 11 | And the animals were certainly in for a few surprises as our team of ten raced by wearing bright yellow ‘ Wimpey Worldwide ’ T-shirts and hard hats . |
| 12 | Gloucester missed some chances but they were never in with a shout … they were on the retreat for most of the game as Bath piled forward … |
| 13 | The Irish have won the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup just once in six runnings and were never in with a shout of improving that record . |
| 14 | The cheer that went up when it was realized that everyone was safely back almost made Grimma forget that they were safely back to a very unsafe place . |
| 15 | By the time the Canadians were safely back in a British port , the ship had sailed 7,000 miles ( 13,000km ) on the round trip . |
| 16 | Until you came along , Century House was right out on a limb . |
| 17 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |
| 18 | It was all over in a few minutes . |
| 19 | Battler opened up with the violin and it was all over in a few minutes . |
| 20 | ‘ One kept shouting to the other to get the money , but it was all over in a flash . |
| 21 | So he was only in for a couple of days then ? |
| 22 | She was soon back with a trolley and all the necessary requisites , and between them they washed the woman from top to toe , and dressed her in a white hospital gown . |
| 23 | ‘ We had to remove one set which was already up for a production by the church 's own drama group . |
| 24 | When Fagin left her , Nancy was already back in a drunken sleep , her head lying on the table once more . |
| 25 | Do you really think Nevil was just out for a stroll when he saw your cab ? |
| 26 | She was just in for a fine and it was her first time . |
| 27 | But the war was not over in a matter of weeks , and the Italian conscripts had neither the training nor the equipment to fight a winter campaign in Russia . |
| 28 | It was usually up on a Tuesday was n't it ? |
| 29 | Bernard Rhodes , for example , was always in the shop and he was always up for a chat I talked to him a lot and we struck up a rapport . |
| 30 | He just missed selection for boat race crew named earlier this week , but he was still in with a chance of a late place . |