Example sentences of "it was [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he surprised it was over so quickly ? |
| 2 | Race itself was very exciting , although it was over very quickly . |
| 3 | It was over too soon . |
| 4 | It was over too quickly . |
| 5 | ‘ It was over too quickly . |
| 6 | It was over much too soon , the music climaxing as some deity descended from the heavens and a pyramid of angels formed with waving chiffon drapes , the stage throbbed with soft lights and the lovers embraced . |
| 7 | It was a grand chance to see all the states and sometimes Canada , even if it was rather too fast moving . |
| 8 | It was finally much more like biography than the autobiography it purported to be ; patently more concealed lesson than true confession . |
| 9 | It was clearly far more powerful than the subjective test the day before . |
| 10 | While the idea that the response to crime actually caused more crime was pleasantly ironic , it was nevertheless still very much a causal-sounding theory , and one of a particularly deterministic nature . |
| 11 | Although it all sprang from God 's initiative , it was nevertheless very much a two-sided affair . |
| 12 | Except that it was nearly twice as large , its social structure closely resembled that of Coventry . |
| 13 | When the potentialities of the tomato were first being explored in the nineteenth century , it was nearly as often used for sweet dishes as for sauces and soups . |
| 14 | It was plain enough now , from the glance he shot in the general direction of the three of them and the jeep , that so far as he was concerned they were just part and parcel of the trouble generated by the city , the days he had to spend queuing in the tax office , the months he had spent shut up in the squalid , over-crowded prison , the endless haggling with shopkeepers , the disappearance of his good-for-nothing son . |
| 15 | So it was around here even in those days . ’ |
| 16 | The trouble was that nobody could quite remember where it was exactly , but everybody knew it was around there somewhere , that 's for sure . |
| 17 | It was surely more accurately described as ‘ the age of the Secondary Modern ’ . |
| 18 | Girls it was n't nearly so important that they should be er er an and also I , I do n't think my parents thought I was really worth educating . |
| 19 | UFO was exotic , but it was n't nearly as memorable for me as Middle Earth . |
| 20 | A bus had been rammed in the fog two nights before , when it was n't nearly as thick as this , and I wondered if he was scared . |
| 21 | They found the car almost immediately since it was n't particularly well hidden . ’ |
| 22 | It was n't even properly on the Foulness road , but a track from the road led to it , and then on to the camp ; about a quarter of a mile away . |
| 23 | Fuck her I was drinking stout on Saturday night and normally do n't do it because we 've simply no money ! on the vodka and say it was n't even enough to buy a carry out but do n't say it unless she says she was here ! |
| 24 | She put the key down and then she saw a little bottle on the table ( ‘ I 'm sure it was n't here before , ’ said Alice ) . |
| 25 | It was n't easy either . |
| 26 | It was n't just today the boy had come up to the wood but yesterday as well . |
| 27 | It was n't just here and now , he was part of the past and he was going to sign up for the WEA history and archaeology classes . |
| 28 | But it 's , well considering he had to re-putty all the windows , it was n't just like he had to one |
| 29 | It went reasonably well , but it was n't technically quite up to standard . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's all right , ’ said Robyn ; though it was n't all right , she told herself , it was n't all right at all . |