Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] was [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of thems one of the er the gateways I just mentioned was the Open Server for Kix and the mainframe integration . |
| 2 | All his kind generally wanted was a quick flirtation , an acquiescent woman , and a no-strings parting the following morning . |
| 3 | Bill was seldom able to put together a consistent run of appearances in our 2nd Division seasons 1921–25 but , when he did play , his graft and pluck were always appreciated by our fans and the press of the time because Palace continually struggled in Division Two and the hard-working , tenacious attitude which Bill always showed was a valuable asset against powerful and more skilled opponents . |
| 4 | Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face . |
| 5 | The last horse we ever had was the best , a plump little Dales pony called Thomas . |
| 6 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 7 | ‘ Anybody can do anything , ’ Josie said , which she knew was only so much bullshit but which she also believed was a reasonable dictum for getting a person through life . |
| 8 | Filmer , I was interested to see as I distributed glasses , was smiling pleasantly in all directions , when the last thing he probably wanted was the enormous smash-hit the train enterprise was proving . |
| 9 | What I now faced was a small town with a strongly macho bias and an inbuilt resistance to change . |
| 10 | What she mainly felt was the sheer incongruity of talking about Undry in terms of sale rooms and banknotes … and at the same time , the impossibility of telling even Ben Hesketh the truth . |
| 11 | I remember that one of us , I can not recall which , made the cynical remark that what we really wanted was a similar type of aircraft to the one that had crashed , in which the auto-pilot could be connected up with the flight recorder — then we investigators could just sit and watch the accident happen all over again . |
| 12 | Oh yes , very tasteful , sir , a very speaking likeness I 'm sure , and such tactility in the brushwork , but what we really wanted was a while-you-wait snapshot , a quid the strip of four down the machine . |
| 13 | What he really wanted was a two-tier price structure , with inaccessible places of ‘ secondary importance ’ facing a surcharge . |
| 14 | One student had a Citroen Visa , which I immediately assumed was the GTi version — Peugeot 205 kit in a Peugeot 104 chassis — and the sort of lukewarm hatch I can just about afford now . |
| 15 | What he actually offered was a vigorous defence of the mixed economy with a passing assault on Treasury investment rules . |
| 16 | But as Kenneth Connor told me , ‘ What she actually saw was the first full frontals ever on view during the making of a British film . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 18 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 19 | The one thing he never wanted was an acting career — ‘ I 'd seen that … ’ |