Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards were apparently not given any regular weapons training and I felt that they really carried the weapons more as part of their uniform and tradition than because of absolute necessity . |
| 2 | She walked hastily from him and into the store-room , and he followed her , and they were just about to confront each other again when the back door leading into the yard opened and there , revealed in the gaslight , was Jessie . |
| 3 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 4 | ITV and BBC1 were both soon broadcasting some 13 hours a day ( the main change being an extension of afternoon hours ) — double the amount 20 years earlier . |
| 5 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 6 | And at least they were both fully dressed this time . |
| 7 | I have to say that they were also apparently making this suggestion for rats and mice . |
| 8 | Well I think what people have said to me very often about the Community Charge is that they can see the er they can see the point of having a community charge which everybody pays and which actually brings in to the local taxation system the hundreds of thousands of people who were previously not paying any rates at all but were benefiting from local services . |
| 9 | I must admit we were certainly not expecting such an abundance of fish , nor such a diversity of species , from such a small pool . |
| 10 | One or two students have been avidly reading Chomsky , but since we were certainly not anticipating any sort of demand for theoretical work , we have scarcely no books on the subject to offer them . |
| 11 | The next thing he knew , the Thames Valley Police were calling the landlords as prosecution witnesses in " Operation Major " — dubbed " The Sting " by a tabloid newspaper — after the police had arrested hundreds of their tenants ( all claimants ) for allegedly defrauding the DHSS , by supposedly drawing social security to pay their rent when they were actually not paying any . |
| 12 | Being a major shareholder or a director was rather like holding some honorific office within the community ; it brought its own private and social satisfactions which could not be measured financially . |
| 13 | He was so unaware of the joke and it was so professionally done that the result was absolutely incredible . |
| 14 | These may seem long periods but the work was so well done that the paintwork was never shabby . |
| 15 | Indifferent student Leonard might have been formally , he was nevertheless already showing those precocious marks of the littérateur , ‘ always an ideas man , ’ as Rosengarten commented . |
| 16 | I was just about to put some more out . |
| 17 | Just before he got a good grip he went , he got a grip and he was just about to squeeze this , I went I sort of went of tiptoes and I goes , I 'll let it slide this time . |
| 18 | Well I was just about to do that . |
| 19 | In fact I was just about to do this when Mr Gillis decided he was ready . |
| 20 | well I was , I was get , I was just about to mention that |
| 21 | I was just about to make that point and I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman raised it . |
| 22 | She was just about to make some coffee , when the front door bell rang . |
| 23 | ‘ I was just about to make some iced tea . ’ |
| 24 | Just prior to the 1985 Helsinki conference , the DoE was once again making some progress and , at the final meeting , it was the Foreign Office which enjoyed the casting vote . |
| 25 | Something ill was always about to befall Little Nemo when he was doing the rounds 85 years ago . |
| 26 | For one thing , she was still here to do that job for her sister . |
| 27 | She was still silently pondering this as he came back into the room and smiled across at his mother . |
| 28 | Despite the possibility of there being objective legal rules , however , Beccaria was clearly not implying that existing legal systems , including that of his own society , necessarily embody them . |
| 29 | So his decision a few months later to join the Women 's Royal Voluntary Service as its first chief executive was probably enough to stupefy many of his peers . |
| 30 | Beatrice was often out drinking that winter , at the Rotonde or the Closerie des Lilas . |