Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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1 | It was cold comfort to realize after the event that the drama had been played out by three sick men , whose judgments contributed to this deeply wounding incident in Anglo-American relations : Eisenhower was suffering from ileitis ; Dulles had cancer ; and Eden had a recurrence of the abdominal obstruction that had laid him low once before in 1953 , and was to do so again after he resigned . |
2 | Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby . |
3 | Then she died a thousand deaths and was born again instantly as at last his lips came down to cover hers . |
4 | It was designed for heavy goods haulage and was built as late as 1960 . |
5 | We encountered two technical complications : one stent was badly positioned and was left too proximally because of a technical problem during insertion . |