Example sentences of "[was/were] after [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canova 's work , with its delicacy of surface effect , invites close scrutiny , as the subtle modulations of surface were after all best understood , according to contemporary practices , by examination at close quarters by candlelight . |
| 2 | It was after twelve o'clock when Giles arrived and began unpacking his hammers . |
| 3 | It was after 10 p.m. and the General was to report to Joffre in Chantilly at 8 the next morning . |
| 4 | I looked at my watch and found it was after eleven o'clock , which meant nothing really . |
| 5 | It was after one o'clock when Nigel finally returned his notebook to his pocket and we were on our way back to The Smoke . |
| 6 | By now it was after six o'clock and time to find somewhere to stay . |
| 7 | As it was after six o'clock , and , according to her much thumbed book of etiquette , a lady might glitter after that hour , she wore long diamanté earrings . |
| 8 | That day was not a V.V.C. day in Out Patients and , in any event , as it was after six o'clock , Out Patients had closed . |
| 9 | I had a busy day and it was after six o'clock before I got round to The Laurels . |
| 10 | It was after six o'clock . |
| 11 | It was after six o'clock when they finished . |
| 12 | Perhaps it was after all impossibly naive and idealistic to expect that frontiers would cease to be watched , but just what price are we paying for the security effected by border controls ? |
| 13 | Safely enclosed in the shining mist , it was after all quite easy to speak . |
| 14 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 15 | It was after nine o'clock when I reached Valladolid , and I took a taxi to the Hotel Moderno . |
| 16 | By the time he got back to the house , it was after nine o'clock . |
| 17 | It was after nine o'clock , however , by the time he got there , since his route was complicated , and involved calls at the mortuary of the General Hospital , at police headquarters , and a telephone call to the forensic laboratory . |
| 18 | It was after nine o'clock , but Dr Frome 's smooth good looks were marred by stubble and red eyes . |
| 19 | By now it was after five o'clock . |
| 20 | If he met anyone he could say , with perfect truthfulness , that he had been absorbed in correcting students ' essays and had not realised the time until it was after five o'clock ? |
| 21 | It was after 1 am when I got up from the table , and I was one of the first to retire ! |
| 22 | It was after 9 a.m. when Nowak drove him through the gates , past the guards , and into the vast underground car-park . |
| 23 | It was after ten o'clock . |
| 24 | It was after ten o'clock , and almost completely dark , when Harold and Felicity returned to the house . |
| 25 | It was after ten o'clock when I came to consciousness of the world about me again . |
| 26 | It was after ten o'clock when I get back to my flat that Sunday evening . |
| 27 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |