Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they were gazing up here quite absently and speculatively , as I did on Monday . |
| 2 | The initiative for the change was British : full-backs , working in tandem , were catching forwards offside so often that games were becoming boring and gates were going down . |
| 3 | I felt the screws who did n't belong to this clique and did n't subscribe to it were given almost as hard a time by them as the inmates . |
| 4 | He was taken out of the garden at put on trial , all the others were gathered together swiftly Normally a Jewish trial would take much longer than this . |
| 5 | Here a young couple got on and tried to find a couple of seats which were situated together preferably away from everyone else . |
| 6 | Above all , there seemed to be little recognition of the special needs of people who were destined to spend very long periods behind bars : the long-termers were treated not very differently from the short-termers , and relatively little thought seemed to have been given to the risk of mental deterioration in an environment without stimulus . |
| 7 | Old-generation units were patched up even further beyond their expected life span . |
| 8 | gate way down to the embankment , were jogging down there tonight , I 'll have a look at it mm on about it |
| 9 | When women were referred by GPs , others were consulted significantly more frequently ( 88 per cent ) than women who were referred by other referrers ( 61 per cent ) ( p=0.02 ) . |
| 10 | Women , too , were dismissed as less highly evolved than men , thus fitting the prejudices of the male scientists who constructed the theories . |
| 11 | I think the fact that the books were filled out correctly and I think you should give the people that did the stock take , congratulations because the books were filled out reasonably well considering some of their ex inexperience in it . |
| 12 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 13 | Far from being content with the prospect of a society based on primitive agriculture they were becoming ever more deeply committed to economic development and efficiency . |
| 14 | On the negative side , funerals were becoming so much more secular in outlook , appearance and context that the surviving guilds and fraternities found themselves hard-pressed to provide all that made for an average funeral of the new type ; the rules were being rewritten by a public which no longer wished to perpetuate the simple ritual hitherto provided and which were looking for a pageantry close to that of the great baronial funerals as performed by the College of Arms , a corporation of heralds and part of the Royal Household . |
| 15 | Where the activity involved is one which would not give rise to insuperable planning objections if it were carried out somewhere else , then the planning authority should do all it can to help in finding suitable alternative premises before initiating enforcement action . |
| 16 | The interpretation of 2-D drawings of 3-D objects and drawing and measuring angles of stated sizes were carried out quite well . |
| 17 | Although skills relating to angles were carried out quite well this does not mean that the idea of angle was well understood . |
| 18 | In those patients who did not default from follow up all the clinical process of care measures were carried out more frequently in the prompted group ; for most comparisons the differences were significant . |
| 19 | As a rule , all sacrifices were carried out as close to the heavens as possible . |
| 20 | Skin abscesses due to injecting , however , were reported significantly more often by drug users who seroconverted compared to controls negative for HIV . |
| 21 | Painful bowel movements during the initial evaluation were reported significantly more often in children who recovered than in the soiling group ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 22 | Stools with very large diameters , very hard stools , and stools that clogged the toilet were reported significantly more commonly in both groups of children who did not recover than in the recovered group ( p<0.02 ) . |
| 23 | We were walking round here about three o'clock one morning , there was water pouring all out the the seams of the concrete . |
| 24 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 25 | The question did not appear to surprise her but it did surprise him , as did the very fact that they were walking so companionably together . |
| 26 | If if we were walking down there now I think I could probably give you the er exact place where it was because I 've got a young memory of going in there , we used to er walk around the the you see . |
| 27 | Of 20 states in which results were forecast early today only four went to Bush . |
| 28 | they were caught out only once and it hurt … sub Andy Clarke ran onto a quickly taken free kick and that was that 1-0 … |
| 29 | Italy did not raise rates because they were considered high enough already and its inflation has been falling . |
| 30 | Converters made of chromite and copper oxide were considered as long ago as the 1970s , but ruled out because they proved less effective than those containing the more precious metals . |