Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 2 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 3 | He wondered if Slater intended to walk the whole way with him , or whether he was only going as far as the Air Gallery , now only just across the street , where he sometimes went in the afternoons . |
| 4 | Indeed it seems that girls very quickly replaced boys at this task : " Evidently [ the boys " ] tongues do not go so glibly as the girls , " as the STC was already saying as early as 1875 , " for in most of the offices where girls are employed , reading boys are now unknown . " |
| 5 | Although Clwyd was not hit as badly as Gwynedd , there was widespread flooding , including pensioners ' flats in Cae Brachty , Mold . |
| 6 | However , Lambarde 's marriage to Sylvestre was not to last much longer than his first , for after bearing him four children she died two weeks after the birth of twins on the 1st September 1587 , scarcely 4 years after marrying him . |
| 7 | The conclusion would seem to be that the early Anglo-Saxon countryside was not run as efficiently as in the following centuries . |
| 8 | The fact that the long-stay population was not declining as rapidly as had been thought meant an expensive ‘ double running ’ situation . |
| 9 | Wales still struggled for possession although Copsey 's aggressive involvement ensured that Ireland 's ball was not delivered as smoothly as it might have been . |
| 10 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 11 | Her temperature was not falling as rapidly as had been expected , and this , he feared , had been caused by her determination to get out of bed too soon . |
| 12 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 13 | Although AMARC was formally established as recently as 1988 , it has gained a worldwide reputation for its community radio conferences , which have been taking place since 1983 . |
| 14 | She was still gazing upwards anxiously when Felipe reappeared , and this time he was climbing down . |
| 15 | The continuity of settlement pattern is more apparent in the upland North and West , where villages are less common , but here the colonization of the remoter areas , such as Cumbria , was still proceeding as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 16 | This was clearly expressed as late as 1913 by the Reverend Edward Lyttleton , headmaster of Eton : |
| 17 | The ceremony of innocence was well drowned as far as they were concerned . |
| 18 | Although this pattern was well established as early as the sixteenth century , the expansion of the market economy during British rule was unprecedented . |
| 19 | In Burgundy , there is evidence that suggests the vine was well established as early as pre-Christian times , and that wines with a reputation for excellence were soon being produced . |
| 20 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 21 | ‘ She said he kept promising to marry her , but by mid-May she had got very frustrated that the relationship was n't accelerating as quickly as she wanted , said Antonia 's friend . |
| 22 | Luckily , the bus was n't going as quickly as it would have had there been no traffic , but it was still doing twenty-odd mph . |
| 23 | She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company . |
| 24 | As I 've described it above , the process differs from modern multi-track technique , because the ‘ backing track ’ went through a number of generations , while modern multi-track tape recorders keep each layer separate ; so the technique was n't used as fully as it might have been , because the quality dropped each time . |
| 25 | It was only a couple coming in from the terrace , and she was about to look away again when she caught sight of a tall , stooping man standing outside and peering lugubriously at her through the glass . |
| 26 | " Artificer " was then used more widely than in its later application to the royal dockyards and the Navy . |
| 27 | He missed most of last season but has run well this term and was certainly going as strongly as anything before making a mistake at the third last in the Gold Cup . |