Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stolen refrigerated truck drives the wrong way up the autobahn — that was seen by a driver coming up the northbound lane — and Tweed 's Mercedes was somewhere not far ahead . |
| 2 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
| 3 | The technique of civil disobedience was applied precisely because decency was so evidently not enough , or , looking at it another way , because there was so evidently not enough decency . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ It was so near yet so far . |
| 5 | Our only complaint is that it was all over too quickly and we look forward to another holiday with you in the future ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ He saved me from a fate worse than death , and it was all over so quick I never did get the chance to thank him properly . ’ |
| 7 | Tamar looked down at the child , scarcely able to believe that it was all over so quickly . |
| 8 | It was all over so quickly — he never said a word . ’ |
| 9 | It was all over so quickly . |
| 10 | It was all over so quickly but I was completely terrified . |
| 11 | It was all over very quickly . ’ |
| 12 | It was all over very quickly . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's just say that the CRO have done that sort of thing before and it was all over very quickly ! |
| 14 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
| 15 | This was all right as far as it went . |
| 16 | The consensus along the corridor was that Yussuf 's wife was all right really apart from her inability to produce any children and that this was the root of the trouble . |
| 17 | For ‘ the game ’ was one that everyone played , and that was all right so long as you took your losses without squealing . |
| 18 | I was all too soon up and about , hobbling with a stick . |
| 19 | But some traders felt it was all too little too late . |
| 20 | By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I did n't put up a fight . |
| 21 | He was obviously not very well educated by the way he spoke , and he seemed very troubled and disgruntled by what had happened to him . |
| 22 | She treasured it , feeling that Paris , and all that it meant , was perhaps not quite over … |
| 23 | He thought that his school was perhaps not quite as civilised as his mother cared to imagine but he remained silent . |
| 24 | they were all in it together and er , there was perhaps not quite so much erm side |
| 25 | If constant gesturing had been required in the Baroque repertory , it was perhaps no longer so . |
| 26 | In a way , this was perhaps just as well . |
| 27 | It was perhaps just as well Eva was a sound sleeper , who could manage on five or six hours sleep , and be up before breakfast doing language study . |
| 28 | Which was perhaps just as well . |
| 29 | This second wave was most successful in the ‘ Neo-Europes ’ of temperate America , Australia and New Zealand but was perhaps much less so in the tropics because of micro-organisms , which the societies based on shifting cultivation there , had evolved to avoid . |
| 30 | In packing up the house and moving us to London , Eva was also in pursuit of Charlie , who was only rarely around now . |