Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |
| 2 | After 9 days , individual reaggregate cultures were gently teased apart to liberate any lymphoid cells . |
| 3 | Senior officials of the United States administration were quoted on June 20 as saying that the USA expected to lift sanctions against South Africa by mid-July , a lead most other countries and organizations were generally expected quickly to follow . |
| 4 | Among the many cathedrals with Norman remains , it is most usual for the nave to be unaltered — the eastern arm and transepts were generally enlarged later to provide more accommodation . |
| 5 | Does my hon. Friend agree that probably the only economy in which full employment was implemented was the Soviet Union , where those who did not have a job were usually found somewhere to go , such as Siberia or the Gulag archipelago ? |
| 6 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 7 | It was ceasing to be overwhelmingly political in a narrow sense and acquiring new dimensions which , even well before the First World War , were clearly destined soon to become very important . |
| 8 | The price rises were also needed urgently to close the gap with wholesale prices for raw materials , which had been increased on Jan. 1 , and with the state purchase prices for agricultural produce , which had gone up in 1990 . |
| 9 | The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning . |
| 10 | They were later called away to deal with a house which was ablaze . |
| 11 | Both sides were later reported either to have used them or to be planning to do so . |
| 12 | Finally she chose a plump boiling fowl , in deference to that great Gascon King of France , Henri Quatre , whose ambition it had been to see that all his subjects were well fed enough to have a chicken in their pot each week , and had made La Poule Au Pot a loved and traditional name for restaurants . |
| 13 | The separate estimates for large and small companies were then added together to provide the figures shown in Table 2 of this report . |
| 14 | This was certainly not the case in respect of the Geneva Conventions Act where the offences were newly created solely to give effect to the Convention , and were described as being hardly applicable to the case at all . |
| 15 | NEARLY 40 new homes were officially opened today to put a roof over the heads of 180 people . |
| 16 | A biopsy was taken 8 cm from the anal margin on the anterior rectal wall ; these were subsequently examined histologically to assess inflammatory activity , which was graded in a standard manner ( table I ) . |
| 17 | We were therefore taken aback to receive , within two weeks , a highly critical letter from the editor requesting a major restructuring of the paper and enclosing a heavily edited copy of the manuscript . |
| 18 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 19 | During the 19C this and the surrounding area fell into decay and the cloisters were actually divided horizontally to provide two sets of slums . |
| 20 | Warner and Palairet were too taken aback to reply . |
| 21 | Pilger , furious , was eventually provoked enough to shout : ‘ You 've had it , cock ! |
| 22 | But he was somewhat taken aback to learn that it was a severe case of overswinging . |
| 23 | A headmaster friend told me recently that he had burst into a classroom mistakenly thinking some pupils were up to no good , only to discover it was drama ; and I recall one of my own students , in playing the role of a prisoner-of-war camp commandant berating the ‘ prisoners ’ and warning them that he had ways of finding out where the missing prisoner was if he did n't own up , was somewhat taken aback to hear the voice of the school caretaker call from the other end of the drama hall , ‘ There 's a boy here , Mr. Ainscough , skulking by this radiator ’ ! |
| 24 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 25 | It was all going entirely to plan and quite uneventful until we arrived at about 150 feet above the upwind end of the runway . |
| 26 | Throughout the entire work , the accompaniment only picks up absolutely precisely on three occasions , and by the end I was all set metaphorically to murder the conductor ! |
| 27 | Germany was constitutionally permitted only to send troops in defence of NATO territory , although following the December 1990 all-German election Chancellor Helmut Kohl had conceded that this rule would have to be changed . |
| 28 | If it was Viola , she was obviously playing hard to get . |
| 29 | The Army 's counsel , a correct and old-fashioned Boston gentleman called Joseph Welch , was finally exasperated enough to tell McCarthy what he was : ‘ Until this moment , Senator , I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness . |
| 30 | I was so close to the water that I was already beginning mentally to enter their world and to feel their dramas as my dramas . |