Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she talked at her home in St Albans , Herts , of her ‘ very special daughter ’ the full horrifying details of how Elizabeth and her best friend Julie Godwin , also 30 , of Spratton , Northants , were brutally raped then murdered was being pieced together in South Africa . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After 9 days , individual reaggregate cultures were gently teased apart to liberate any lymphoid cells . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You were fucking lying there wrestling with your brother ! |
| 7 | Despite its imperfections , which were soon to become well ventilated by the circumstances of individual cases coming before the courts , there were two outcomes which could not be ignored . |
| 8 | And if those whose symbols were thus explained hotly denied the interpretations , that would simply be further proof . |
| 9 | We were just standing there looking over the the the |
| 10 | Marcus and the woman were just sitting there grinning at each other and talking so I went to track Shelly down . |
| 11 | To his disappointment , Bessie and Edgebone were already sitting there enjoying the night air . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | In excavations of the past ephemeral traces of occupation were rapidly swept away to uncover the more substantial structures . |
| 14 | It was the same in the the pantomimes when Lily has learnt learnt the dancing , I could er after she had showed us about twice I could I could have it no bother and the rest of them were still struggling away trying to learn the steps . |
| 15 | The administration 's enemies , both on the Democratic left and the Republican right , were still circling yesterday hoping to draw political blood . |
| 16 | I looked back , they were still standing there showing no signs of pain . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bayonets were carefully sharpened then fixed ; hearts began to beat faster as the minutes passed , and they waited in silence for the command to advance . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The scouts were also working hard to keep up with the many breakfasts they cooked that morning . |
| 21 | They were later called away to deal with a house which was ablaze . |
| 22 | Both sides were later reported either to have used them or to be planning to do so . |
| 23 | In the early stage the sides were evenly matched effectively cancelling each other out . |
| 24 | His recreational hours were invariably spent either driving at great speed down country lanes or in the public bars of Herefordshire , engaged in uncomplicated conversations with local farmers . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Gastric secretions were then aspirated continuously using a suction pump , with suction applied for 50 out of each 60 seconds and secretions collected in 15 minute aliquots . |
| 27 | The separate estimates for large and small companies were then added together to provide the figures shown in Table 2 of this report . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | NEARLY 40 new homes were officially opened today to put a roof over the heads of 180 people . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |