Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I I fucking get it right , say something , I was right pissed off by this time , next , I , I , I stood out and step forward fucking get closer sort of thing and say something and that was it , . |
| 2 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 3 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 4 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 5 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 6 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 7 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 8 | Assaulted by a tumbler of wine and the smell of much mixed nervous human activity , I was soon crawling about on several elbows , being splashed from high above by excess wine while my eyes , ears and mouth were up there and at the same level of height of depth as everyone else , adding to the massed attempt to obliterate the loud dancing music which obliterated the loud dancing which packed the conversations into pouring constipations . |
| 9 | And then she came bounding back and could n't stop herself , went straight into Doreen , knocked Doreen off her legs completely , and she was just sprawled out on all fours , it was just hilarious , we , in fact we did an action replay on that because you had to see it again to believe it . |
| 10 | However , when we decided this morning to change the whole way of presentation , yeah , I was just getting along to that . |
| 11 | I was just catching up on some paperwork . |
| 12 | He was just looking round for some quiet corner to put the case when faintly above the noise in the room he heard the doorbell ring . |
| 13 | I thought you were her lover , someone she 'd never told me about , and I was just knocked back by all the emotions I felt . |
| 14 | Or maybe Roecastle was just to warn out after all those punnishing reserve games ? ? ! ! ? ? |
| 15 | Columbus was not cut out for this sort of work . |
| 16 | Gina was not turned on by these sounds . |
| 17 | Railway stock sent from Black Sea ports to another area , the Middle Volga , was not sent back for more grain , but for the most part ended up in Siberia . |
| 18 | Their lands , which had been seized by the crown in 1308 , by papal decree should have been transferred in 1312 to the Order of the Hospitallers , but in England this transfer was not carried out for some years , during which the king continued to profit from the estates . |
| 19 | ‘ I told them I was not putting up with that sort of behaviour , but they just got more abusive . |
| 20 | In the end , said Hartley , ‘ the pleasures of imagination must decline ’ — but Wordsworth , although recognizing the possibility in Tintern Abbey — was not to face up to this fact until the time of the Immortality Ode . |
| 21 | She was not going out at all and was communicating very little with her immediate family . |
| 22 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 23 | However , in the Braniel a young male fieldworker found ( for rather obvious reasons ) that he was not passed on to any young women of a similar age to himself . |
| 24 | The plan was not working out at all well . |
| 25 | I had learned by now that an upsurge in Mr Singh 's libido was usually brought on by some other outside circumstance . |
| 26 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 27 | The group was hardly set back at all by the major extinction at the end of the Cretaceous , and has never been more varied than it is today . |
| 28 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 29 | According to reports in some of the more scurrilous publications , the young American was deeply turned off by this close encounter with the ‘ world 's sexiest female ’ as Kylie has been voted in many teen surveys . |
| 30 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |