Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business was carried on at a rather more sedate pace , lunches were longer and boozier and I was far , far happier . |
| 2 | To one of those , Taddeo Ugoleto , Matthias gave the care and control of the library : ‘ Ugoleto sought out Greek codexes for the library and copying was carried out on a far greater scale than ever before . |
| 3 | It was looked on as a very serious offence . |
| 4 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 5 | This was sorted out by a ravishingly beautiful air hostess who distributed boiled sweets to all concerned and reprimanded a tovarich for smoking . |
| 6 | The pull was made on to a slightly uphill gradient and into the wind , in spite of this a record breaking 100 metres was reached in 40.8 seconds at a speed of 4.5 mph . |
| 7 | This hypothesis prompted a series of experiments by Best ( 1975 ) in which a given flavour was established as a conditioned inhibitor ( or a signal for safety ) by an explicit discrimination training procedure in which this flavour was presented along with a previously established CS+ but in the absence of the US . |
| 8 | To deduce even the sequence of the pieces of wire was difficult enough , but sufficient wire was played back through a specially made read-out head to establish beyond doubt what had happened . |
| 9 | So he he 's been up he 's one of type of dogs , he said like a human you would n't know if he went in the house they would n't know whether he was coming out with a double barrelled shot gun to shoot yourself or |
| 10 | But the whole study was set up within a much more general theoretical orientation : the theory of linguistic change ; it was not merely an attempt to demonstrate age , class and style differences , as Smith implies . |
| 11 | La Plante obviously enjoys writing tough , all-action thrillers but this latest epic was crying out for a little more subtlety and a couple of rounded characters . |
| 12 | La Plante obviously enjoys writing tough , all-action thrillers but this latest epic was crying out for a little more subtlety and a couple of rounded characters . |
| 13 | La Plante obviously enjoys writing tough , all-action thrillers but this latest epic was crying out for a little more subtlety and a couple of rounded characters . |
| 14 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 15 | When Vigier de la Rousselle dared to advocate the continuation of appeals to Paris in 1312 , the whole matter was taken up in a very ‘ political ’ way by the authorities in Bordeaux , who accused Vigier of contempt of ducal authority and had him executed on a charge which was , in effect , that of treason . |
| 16 | The question occupied the hearts and minds of hundreds at the conference , was tossed around in a rather lack-lustre debate , and sparked flames of pub argument long into the night . |