Example sentences of "were [adv] [adv] [adj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But heavy users of credit were much less likely to label it as expensive . |
| 2 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 3 | Thankfully they were all too engrossed to notice her , and she gained the front door unmolested and slipped through it , closing it softly behind her . |
| 4 | They were only too pleased to grant him early retirement back in September when they needed to shed staff . |
| 5 | Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end . |
| 6 | Oh going back to the apprenticeship you were more or less left as you stood because I I thought that journeymen were very what 's the word very er they were only too willing to let you know what was going on and when you think about it you can see why . |
| 7 | There 's a shortage of teachers in Germany as well as here and they were only too glad to see me . |
| 8 | Ned was happy to drive our massive van with consummate skill down this road , and we were only too happy to let him ! |
| 9 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 10 | But the gas shells to be used in the big trench mortars had displayed a nasty unreliability and troops were not unnaturally reluctant to carry them . |
| 11 | One ancient landowner said to me ‘ To tell you the truth , we were getting the information that the Portuguese were not having so much money or education , so we were not that keen to marry them ’ . |
| 12 | As a freelance journalist he could report them because just enough editors were just sufficiently interested to pay him just enough for doing so . |
| 13 | Meeting people from all over the world became a hobby for them and they were both very happy to tun it into a way of life . |
| 14 | Charles Frederick was the odd one out in this respect — his feet were far too itchy to allow him to settle down into any sort of domesticity , and he would prove the fact in a dramatic enough way by sailing off around the world as soon as the opportunity presented itself . |
| 15 | People were far more willing to use them if they were diluted in a traditional herbal infusion like chamomile . |
| 16 | And foreign statesmen were far more eager to have him spread Iran 's wealth in their direction than to advise restraint . |
| 17 | Hawaiians who were n't even competing felt it most of all . |
| 18 | But he were n't even supposed to have it , so |
| 19 | ‘ So you were n't entirely surprised to find it gone ? ’ |
| 20 | Donleavy tried to make up for it later by arranging a champagne thank-you weekend for the Colemans at the DIA 's expense in an exclusive little Georgetown hotel , but by then they were almost too tired to enjoy it . |
| 21 | Her legs were almost too shaky to hold her up and she felt consciousness closing down . |
| 22 | ‘ We were certainly quite lucky to beat them last week . ’ |