Example sentences of "[adv] and was " in BNC.
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| 1 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 2 | Sharpe looked again for his own enemy , but the first Dragoon had taken enough and was holding out his sword in meek surrender . |
| 3 | She had seen enough and was ready to go . |
| 4 | I concluded that I had done enough and was getting ready to sidle away when a servant pushed a large bucket of water into my hands and I realised that , under Santerre 's direction , a human chain had been formed . |
| 5 | According to Phillip Knightley , Philby had done rather better and was enjoying the comfortable lifestyle of a retired KGB general with his wife Rufa , had built up a library of 12,000 books , saw Western newspapers regularly and was able to maintain contact with his family in the West . |
| 6 | Even with the problems , he still believed the team should have done better and was disappointed with the standard of performance , although he conceded home advantage was telling . |
| 7 | Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate . |
| 8 | Mildred hopped inside and was picked up by Maud , who took her over to Enid . |
| 9 | Farrell pushed the agent inside and was joined by the other intruder . |
| 10 | So forceful was her intended put-down that his tongue had slid inside and was teasing the softness of her mouth with its sweet erotic movements before she could adjust to what was happening to her . |
| 11 | A dog yapped frantically somewhere inside and was subdued . |
| 12 | It was true that Naylor Massingham had apparently said to Travis 's mother that Travis was a big lad now , but Travis was hurting like the devil inside and was consequently not handling his unhappiness and loneliness in a very ‘ big lad ’ fashion . |
| 13 | I had not slept much and was up before dawn . |
| 14 | I know you were only a junior minister , but one hears about things when one 's down the line , that he was very presidential , that he would n't let them talk much and was very stiff and frozen . |
| 15 | Each of the alchemists , he claimed , was in his way an incarnation of Mercurius — the ever-ambiguous tutelary spirit of the Art who promised much and was not to be had for the asking . |
| 16 | A crab-apple tree broke his fall , and he was able to hang on to it , but his horse fell below and was killed . |
| 17 | They were n't alone ; and then the next thought was that Sandy must have come up from below and was now standing on the quay , but then that thought died as what he 'd taken for her shadow came out from under the stairway . |
| 18 | Thrush Green was sorry to hear that he had never been married , had been married unhappily and was now separated from his wife , had been happily married and lost his wife in childbirth , and ( disastrously ) still married , with a wife who would be coming to live with him at the corner house within a few days . |
| 19 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 20 | McLeish looked thoughtfully at Jennifer Morgan who had come in and was considering her father with what he was startled to recognize as dislike . |
| 21 | Miss Harker had a kind heart , but was she really in touch with this world she lived in and was so anxious to change ? |
| 22 | She knew Sarah had been expecting the place to be unfit to live in and was pleased to see her eyes widen in surprise . |
| 23 | But by the ninth century this had degenerated into gross confusion , under cover of which the worship of Baal-Melqart , the official god of Tyre , had crept in and was widely corrupting faith in God . |
| 24 | Their little brother had fallen in and was being carried fast downstream by the current . |
| 25 | The team 's brainchild required no breaking in and was incredibly comfortable — utterly different from the stiff , heavyweight boots that took weeks to break in . |
| 26 | Kemp was released after treatment but Raynsford was kept in and was said last night to be ‘ comfortable ’ . |
| 27 | He had come in and was leaning against the closed door , surveying the chaos with an expressionless face . |
| 28 | He looked all in and was almost asleep , so I got up and patted his shoulder very gently . |
| 29 | Later he came in and was so delightfully natural and dear . |
| 30 | I moved in and was there for three months . |