Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were not expecting anything like that . ’ |
| 2 | The police were expecting a peaceful demonstration , the demolition contractors were n't expecting one at all . |
| 3 | ‘ I was rather hoping something like this would happen , actually . |
| 4 | Britain was soon devoting something like half its national product to the war , a massive shift of resources , unthinkable in peacetime . |
| 5 | I was n't plotting anything at all . |
| 6 | I was n't expecting anyone at all like you . ’ |
| 7 | It just smelt like Christmas cake cooking , and I was n't cooking anything at all . |
| 8 | It would be worth doing even if one was n't paid anything at all . |
| 9 | on the ar , we well you know we 've paid for his education since he was seven because he was n't doing anything at primary school ! |
| 10 | Mm that 's why I thought you was n't doing anything on that day , |
| 11 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |