Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] exactly [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above : In 1901 regulations added a pair of shoulder straps to the white undress coat , and insignia of branch , unit and rank were thenceforward displayed exactly as on the khaki field blouse ; this coat bears the insignia of a captain of the 23rd Infantry . |
| 2 | ‘ For Farr , ’ said Lustgarten , ‘ as he laughed and joked with his old friend in the front room of their Wimbledon home , was already planning exactly where his carving knife would skirt the edge of the poisoned breast meat , digging deeper and deeper away from the tainted flesh , so that neither he nor Templeton would suffer . |
| 3 | A convenient time , with the light fading , for all the brothers who were engaged in copying or reading had abandoned their books for the evening , leaving the prior to ensure that everything was decently replaced exactly where it should be . |
| 4 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 5 | Although the Panopticon was never built exactly as he designed it ( a modified version was constructed at Millbank on the Thames and opened , with extremely poor results , in 1917 ) , imprisonment rapidly became the pre-eminent method of punishment . |