Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The income from customs dues , which had risen sharply in the first year of the reign , thanks to Mary 's reforms , was remarkably sluggish thereafter . |
| 2 | But he said to Bella , ‘ Yes , he told me , after , that he was dead drunk once , in Portsmouth , when he was on leave from the Navy , and he 'd had them tattooed on for a bet . ’ |
| 3 | Well that was dead opposite there . |
| 4 | I was dead happy there and then , all of a sudden , they came one day and just moved me to another home . |
| 5 | It was rather spectacular really — there was blood all over the place and covering my hand . |
| 6 | It was rather clever really . |
| 7 | And though the cottage was pretty to look at , it was rather poky inside with small , dark rooms and low ceilings . |
| 8 | He was rather ignorant sometimes . |
| 9 | In this case , the confidence of the black group was rather low both for those who were right ( mean confidence 1.4 ) and those who were wrong ( mean confidence 1.7 ) . |
| 10 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 11 | An an and I could erm I , I erm her name was Barbara erm Actually it was rather interesting there a oh have you remembered the name of that club ? |
| 12 | It really was rather quiet now — dark too , she noticed , glancing around . |
| 13 | She had wavy blond hair and was rather attractive apart from the beginnings of a moustache . |
| 14 | I was rather irritated yesterday because I had a phone call from |
| 15 | It was rather comical actually because he said er , You must now go and make an appointment to see Mr , and I said , Well actually we already ha |
| 16 | ‘ I was rather ambitious once . |
| 17 | The river too was uniformly dark apart from the ripples and eddies which were thin ribbons of light . |
| 18 | She saw the amusement in his eyes , the question which he was delicately careful not to put . |
| 19 | I was bitterly ashamed again of my Greek blood . |
| 20 | Of the vast number of Ayrshire people who have emigrated to Canada , the man who was most successful financially was Robert Dunsmuir ( 1825–89 ) who went from Hurlford to Vancouver Island and amassed a fortune from coal mining and other businesses ( See Chapter 31 ) but the man who did most towards the advancement of the new country was John Galt ( See Chapter 9 ) . |
| 21 | As the majority ( and Pope Paul too ) was most anxious both to carry the minority with it and not to seem to be in any way undermining the Roman primacy , there was such a lot of qualifying done in the course of the final formulation of the text that , as it stands , it reads a little weakly . |
| 22 | I tried hard at school because I was most happy there — not at home where girls are not allowed to go out even with their female friends . |
| 23 | According to Mr. Mendez he was most likely three-parts white , as I have said , and the rest Mexican on his mother 's side . |
| 24 | He was most likely not even reading the Strand , but sniffing it and with it the atmosphere around him . |
| 25 | He was most likely still in the wood . |
| 26 | Peasant rental of nonpeasant lands was most widespread here and in the Middle Volga regions . |
| 27 | A hormonal seizure was upon him , triggered by sight of the bare green flesh of that alien foe of Humankind , whom he was most unlikely ever to see again . |
| 28 | It was most infuriating not to know what Gina had done with all the free loot . |
| 29 | Their God was wholly present everywhere at once , allowing no site , no building , or space any specially privileged holiness . |
| 30 | 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 . |