Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so pleased , ’ she looked at me shyly or was it a little slyly , ‘ I could understand from knowing my Classics what the old peasants were saying . |
| 2 | Remember how you were concerned for his or her welfare , how you wanted to know if he or she had slept well , had eaten properly or was too cold or too hot ? |
| 3 | That throughout the material part of that period the computer was operating properly or , if not , that any respect in which it was not operating properly or was out of operation during that part of that period was not such as to affect the production of the document or the accuracy of its contents ; and , |
| 4 | But none of these stayed long or was meant to begin any sort of permanent relationship . |
| 5 | Was Fleet St an industry striving for profit only or was it dedicated ‘ to the public service at the expense of profit ’ ? |
| 6 | Fourthly , although the Second Vice-President had outlined clearly why he felt the Government could , and even should , take over all newspapers , it neither did so nor was , at this time , intending to do so . |
| 7 | A team-spokesman said : ‘ Zanardi has made a fantastic recovery , far better than was expected of him , and it would be a shame if he was to miss his home Grand Prix . |
| 8 | Don Cupitt indeed suggests that the fact that Jesus , a human being , came to be seen as God , made for a situation whereby God the ‘ Father ’ also was conceived more anthropomorphically than was the case within the Jewish background . |
| 9 | More so than was necessary . |
| 10 | I find everything realized and more so than was stated . |
| 11 | He awaited a reply eagerly and was going to drop in to see her on his next leave . |
| 12 | Sharpe looked again for his own enemy , but the first Dragoon had taken enough and was holding out his sword in meek surrender . |
| 13 | She had seen enough and was ready to go . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate . |
| 18 | Mildred hopped inside and was picked up by Maud , who took her over to Enid . |
| 19 | Farrell pushed the agent inside and was joined by the other intruder . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A dog yapped frantically somewhere inside and was subdued . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I had not slept much and was up before dawn . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A crab-apple tree broke his fall , and he was able to hang on to it , but his horse fell below and was killed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | However , it was noted even in 1863 that the Charolais had certain features in common with Colling 's ideal Durham Shorthorn — a light head , fine skin , large hindquarters , straight back , well-fleshed limbs and barrel-shaped body — but the Charolais had stronger bones and limbs and was much hardier than the Durham ; it was traditionally raised on grass alone and was brought inside only in the depths of winter . |