Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] [noun prp] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
| 2 | By the time Tom reached the house and shovelled his way to the door , Seb and Carrie were both fully dressed and Carrie was bending over the fire , coaxing life from the embers as she prepared breakfast . |
| 3 | It is now generally accepted that Frolik was a plant designed to waste MI5 's resources while important spies remained undetected and to sow seeds of distrust between MI5 and the CIA . |
| 4 | In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden . |
| 5 | The drinkers in the Dragon all privately and rather proudly believed that Charlie was capable of anything . |
| 6 | That was most graphically illustrated when Sheffield was arguing about an urban development corporation . |
| 7 | So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were . |