Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 2 | Peasant rental of nonpeasant lands was most widespread here and in the Middle Volga regions . |
| 3 | I was always described as the heretic at school , a designation which was theologically accurate enough and did n't particularly disturb me ; it seemed a not unkind acknowledgement of whatever distances I carried with me . |
| 4 | He was less talkative now and settled down to work quietly , only occasionally asking her a question about what he was doing . |
| 5 | Bashed your dad 's side , the wing and we could see a policeman putting , it was pouring with rain and he was putting his er , big mac on and he should of been directing the traffic , he told us that , he come over to us and he was only young like and he said , oh I 'd just left , I was on duty here I 'd just left to go and put my mac on ! |
| 6 | It was only 7.30 am but already it was getting hot . |
| 7 | As yet it was only eight o'clock and the sun reluctant to leave without treating its worshippers to a pyrotechnic display of rose and gold flames that burnt up the whole western sky . |
| 8 | She was only little then and I had to hold her up so she could reach . |
| 9 | It was already 11 p.m. and ; at first Pétain demurred on the grounds that he was not yet au fait with the situation . |
| 10 | We reported a couple of years back that just as leading US companies like IBM Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co were adopting Total Quality Management with messianic zeal , the Japanese had decided that it was not good enough and had moved on to Zero-Defects Management , and the Financial Times ' Observer column offers an example of just why : it has a release that flags ‘ the first major conference on Total Quality Management for Pension Finds ’ . |
| 11 | Referee John Pearson was not impressed either but he waved play on and instead was intent on punishing a Leicester offside as they came piling round in search of the loose ball . |
| 12 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 13 | She was not beautiful either but the force of her attraction lay in her dignity , her confidence . |
| 14 | It was young men now , older than herself ; she liked them tough and full of talent ; she was not ambitious directly but found that life with the obscure is less interesting . |
| 15 | He confesses that , although he was outstanding at school ( he was usually top academically and became Assistant Head Boy — ‘ power without privilege ’ he says ) , the young Bill was always anxious about examinations and aware of the pressure to succeed . |
| 16 | Goodman was always hard up and enjoyed the friendship and generosity of friends such as Francis Bacon who would help him out . |
| 17 | He had aged noticeably , his voice was higher-pitched and more quavery , but he was still alert mentally and willing to range over the whole of the naval war and his relationship with Hitler . |
| 18 | Nick went to the local Primary because he was still young enough but the older children were given lessons by their own teachers in the Chapels . |
| 19 | The slurry was still advancing relentlessly and he could find no way through . |
| 20 | For example , pretty well all over the world , the Lower Jurassic terebratulids were represented by the one monotonous , dull-looking genus Lobothyris , though the order was more complex both and afterwards , and several other families somehow survived this temporary eclipse . |
| 21 | It was nearly five o'clock and dark before Detective-Inspector Doyle got back to his home in the village four miles to the north of Cambridge . |
| 22 | It was nearly two o'clock and there were few soldiers drinking the hot soup and ersatz coffee . |
| 23 | Monday morning : it was nearly ten o'clock but so grey and overcast that the light was switched on in the kitchen in Marie 's house . |
| 24 | Batty was magnificently constructive throughout but things refused stubbornly to gel up to the interval . |
| 25 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 26 | It was about six o'clock and Carrie was helping to wash up the tea things when she heard Mr Evans 's bellow of rage . |
| 27 | It was about six o'clock and the shops in Wellingham were all closed and the streets emptying . |
| 28 | And my hands were going like this and I looked at my clock and it was about six o'clock and it was still pitch black because it jump back into bed . |
| 29 | His Protestant voice told the nation that Lady Thatcher might speak in Thursday 's debate on race , for that was what it was really all about or , on the other hand , she might be asked to take the chair for John Major 's Leader 's address on the Friday afternoon . |
| 30 | Was really poor there but I du n no if we 'd er stayed there or and carried on with it . |