Example sentences of "was [adj] and [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peggy smiled and , looking towards her stepfather , she said , ‘ Yes , I can imagine how he gets on your nerves , ’ at the same time questioning why her mother should be so happy , and she a settled woman forty years old , whereas she was twenty-one and so miserable inside that there were days where she wanted to take to her heels and run . |
| 2 | There was another and more immediate danger than slow starvation : supplies of ball and powder running out . |
| 3 | For the benefit of those who were not part of this scene , there was enormous and very real concern among the ruling classes that the whole of the young generation had fallen into a degenerative backslide which , of course , it had not . |
| 4 | It was unconditional and therefore unrepresentative loyalty . |
| 5 | As I had only very limited experience in writing in output terms , the process was exacting and extremely slow progress was made initially . |
| 6 | He was decisive and never wasted time on second thoughts . |