Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camille was not yet sufficiently enraged to contradict her . |
| 2 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 3 | In addition , the Navy was far too hard pressed to find the shipping to transport a large Commando force . |
| 4 | The celebration in the following year on 1 August was even more explicitly designed to allow the younger generation to experience being abolitionists . |
| 5 | There was n't even much attempt to make it look like a mugging ; he still had his wallet . |