Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hurt so much it was physical pain , like a knife twisting backwards and forwards . |
| 2 | So whenever she was busy sewing , Corbett always recognised it as a bad sign . |
| 3 | So now I was poor Monica , hung up on a nancy boy . |
| 4 | So here he was six months later valeting his clothes on a hot Sunday afternoon when any normal youth would be outside . |
| 5 | I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P |
| 6 | Steve Groves for ‘ We shot it yesterday when it was 3 feet higher' ’ Nick Reason for ‘ Dad , I know you 've got to have a head for heights to canoe over a waterfall like that but why 's that man got two heads ? ’ , |
| 7 | But here , that 's still where it was last time I checked my watch . |
| 8 | Mr Seierstad served on the advisory council of the UBS in Ecuador , and more recently he was General Secretary of the Norwegian Santal Mission . |
| 9 | Not so long ago Paddy was lying ill in the attic bedroom , now here he was changing bread into the body of Christ and wine into His blood . |
| 10 | Even so it was common practice ( and indeed still is ) to crimp with one 's teeth ! |
| 11 | Even then they were superannuated geezers , and even though a few fools thought they were punks and the band did their best to encourage this image , really they were The Doors without Jim Morrison and with Bach on keyboards . |
| 12 | My wife lost her job ; she was the main earner and basically from then on it was downward slide . |
| 13 | She was just like me , she had been told that her prognosis was good and yet here she was four years later . |
| 14 | The reason American tourists became a byword for vulgarity in Europe was that suddenly they were working-class Americans going abroad . |
| 15 | Very often they were part-time farmers and merchants as well ; simple categories of occupation do not work in this sort of society . |
| 16 | They did n't stick their cards through your letter box or advertise in the Yellow Pages , And very often they were unreliable people , demanding payment in advance or trying to blackmail you . |
| 17 | When we went , it was really funny , when we went to do the , the talk erm , afterwards when we were all sort of getting together and having a chat , they 're telling me about , they do artificial , they artificial inseminate pigs |