Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 77-year-old Cranston , who had resigned as majority whip in 1990 and had dropped plans to seek re-election in 1992 on grounds of ill-health , was treated more severely because he had received by far the largest contributions and , unlike the others , had actively solicited funds . |
| 2 | Perhaps she did not realize how easy it was to sit perfectly still while you studied the faces one by one of the people in the audience , imagining their names , learned the words of the speaking players , and then — best of all ! — played the Wishing Game . |
| 3 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |
| 4 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 5 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 6 | Luckily for ‘ Bluey , ’ Brian operates the Central Fisheries Board tag and release scheme , so soon after weighing , the shark was swimming merrily away albeit it with a brightly coloured plastic tag at the back of his dorsal fin . |
| 7 | So well had her work progressed at the Lodge , and so greatly — for all the discomfort — had she enjoyed her solitude , that Louisa momentarily tried defiance ; but she was shivering uncontrollably even as she did so . |
| 8 | But nothing was done as far as we know . |
| 9 | But the damage was done as far as my faith was concerned , which is probably why I went mad . |
| 10 | It was , however , of great importance that it was said as clearly as it was by the Council . |
| 11 | He could n't take his eyes off Zambia 's stomach which was revealed quite plainly as SHe sat up in bed . |
| 12 | A MAN was shot twice yesterday as he fled from five masked youths . |
| 13 | She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her . |
| 14 | I was sweating now even though it was getting cooler . |
| 15 | I collapsed in a heap as did George , one of the guards from the Pigsty , who was puffing as hard as me . |
| 16 | The project was sold twice more before it finally flew again as a modified two-seater , as N9837A . |
| 17 | Right my wife was selling as far as I was concerned . |
| 18 | ‘ I was going as carefully as I could because I had a 25-second cushion over Berger so I was able to slow down a bit and the pain eased . |
| 19 | That temper was raised higher still when he was finally allowed through and found Matchsticks already waiting , idly smoking and flicking through a copy of Lui . |
| 20 | My parents often mentioned their remorse , I was speaking so well before we went to the Russian Orthodox Easter Service . |
| 21 | Brando was called twice more before he returned , at which point Howard strode off in a rage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This punishment , though , was dealt more severely than I think it should have . |
| 24 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 25 | As well as fighting for more money , her task was to ensure that ‘ every last pound ’ was spent as effectively as it could be . |
| 26 | ‘ She was doing quite nicely when she suddenly developed gas gangrene . |
| 27 | They were then struggling at 127 for four with 16 overs remaining but Byas pulled Caddick for six to restore confidence , which was boosted even further when he was dropped on the boundary edge by Andy Hayhurst when 27 . |
| 28 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |
| 29 | The first was a short man who was walking along the street , and the second was a little girl who was running as fast as she could . |
| 30 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |