Example sentences of "was [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
| 2 | O 's whole way of making love was strange ; he worked on your body until you could n't stand it , but it was impersonal somehow , as if he was digging inside you to find someone else , something else , something he 'd lost or wanted but could n't find words to ask you for . |
| 3 | This shift in position marked a decline in status as well as income , but was preferable perhaps to being sacked . |
| 4 | She was alert again , and intent . |
| 5 | Vologsky was alert immediately , the tensions now on the surface , his nerve-endings tingling with anticipation and fear . |
| 6 | Her mind was alert enough . |
| 7 | Declarer was alert enough to put this information to good use . |
| 8 | But life was simpler then . |
| 9 | The Kha-Khan 's tone was tranquil again . |
| 10 | The village of Teddington was tranquil once again today … a lone police car and childrens toys in the garden the only reminders of the triple killing there . |
| 11 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 12 | Webb concerns the dismissal of a woman who discovered that she was pregnant shortly after being hired as a maternity leave replacement . |
| 13 | In April 1919 , just turned 21 she was pregnant again . |
| 14 | All that was three years ago , and Jean had soon got over it , but now Tina was pregnant again and showing it , much to the amusement of Sandy and Stu . |
| 15 | She had confided to Ruth that she was pregnant again . |
| 16 | I was unhappy , and afraid , and I was pregnant again . |
| 17 | Odette found she lost three stone keeping busy , then to her dismay found she was pregnant again . |
| 18 | In 1949 Beryl found that she was pregnant again , but did not want a second child . |
| 19 | Prune was pregnant again and wore a murky green long woollen smock . |
| 20 | When she was pregnant again , I think the father by then was divorced so she married him , she immediately got a house |
| 21 | But I did the props er on , on the next one round and then we moved , I thought , well I was pregnant anyway . |
| 22 | She complained to an industrial tribunal that the main reason for her dismissal was that she was pregnant so that her dismissal was an act of unlawful sex discrimination contrary to the 1975 Act . |
| 23 | because it 's our it 's , Ann was pregnant then did n't smo and she did n't smoke so |
| 24 | Elizabeth was pregnant very shortly after their marriage ; a harrowing pregnancy , too , we may be sure , as that merciless winter and spring of 1770/1 set in . |
| 25 | Yes I think that the Scot 's are more puritanical and also I , I had three babies , erm I was pregnant out there and I flew back to Scotland to have them and the difference between going to a Swiss gynaecologist and seeing a doctor here was incredible . |
| 26 | The mid-week match in Tamworth was memorable mainly for providing Scotland with their first win in five matches . |
| 27 | The voice was nearer now , the footfalls heavier , quicker . |
| 28 | The Front was nearer now , and Rogers climbed to five thousand feet over the airfield before he turned east . |
| 29 | This was due partly to her hats and partly to her remarkable prowess as a lady cricketer . |
| 30 | Franco 's refusal to recognize that autarchy was economically and politically untenable was due partly to his belief that liberal democracy could not bring economic well-being , and partly to his lack of understanding of the complexities of economic policy-formulation . |