Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps she was right not to argue . |
| 2 | Only nothing happened the next day and Chesarynth knew she was right not to trust herself because she could n't tell waking from dreams of an endless corridor with people whispering about her behind locked doors . |
| 3 | The right hon. Member for Finchley was right yesterday to express concern from her point of view that the Foreign Secretary was a bit wobbly on majority voting . |
| 4 | ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea . |
| 5 | ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea . |
| 6 | Mrs Eckersley 's friend at the German Foreign Office , to whom he now offered his services as a full-time employee , passed him on to Dr Erich Hetzler , private secretary to the Nazi Foreign Minister , von Ribbentrop , whom Joyce was rather ungratefully to refer to in future as ‘ Ribbentripe ’ . |
| 7 | John was always prepared to take suggestions from his chosen dancers and also from Peggy van Praagh , who told me that her function was most often to suggest that he was attempting too much and ought to take something out . |
| 8 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 9 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 10 | It was little enough to expect . |
| 11 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 12 | Of course there were a lot of questions , but right now the answers did n't matter ; it was enough just to enjoy the questions , and know that the world was full of astonishing things , and that he was n't a frog . |
| 13 | Not that he breathed a word of this to any of the others ; it was enough just to drink it in himself , sharing his secret with the old farmer . |
| 14 | In retrospect , though , it was a touch too apparent how many comedians in 1979 thought it was enough just to say , um , ‘ Bleep ’ — rather tamely , nobody got past the bleeper : for shock value , you 're better off with Radio 3 . |
| 15 | It was enough just to look at them . |
| 16 | It was enough simply to know that otters were out there somewhere . |
| 17 | This had the advantage of assuring leadership by a strong adult rather than the possibility of a child inheriting — a hazard which was so frequently to affect the later Stuart dynasty . |
| 18 | So it is upon his perception of trade unions operating as industrial co-operatives and thus reconstituting society as an industrial democracy , that his hero 's place depends , a perception which trade unionism was so quickly to abandon . |
| 19 | The combination of boogification with romantic lyricism in ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ — one element deriving from established Tin Pan Alley technique , the other from the black American subculture — produces a style already , at this early stage in Elvis 's career , teetering on the edge of that melodrama into which he was so often to fall . |
| 20 | Apparently it was all right to receive money from the Treasury in neat health authority allocations , but not for cheques or , worse still , cash to appear over the hospital counter . |
| 21 | Taken in with his bottle of National Dried Milk and vitamin drops that it was all right to kill . |
| 22 | After all , she was all right to flirt with at parties and escort him occasionally . |
| 23 | But he was all right to work with if you knew your job . |
| 24 | He told us that it was all right to study the evolution of the universe after the big bang , but we should not inquire into the big bang itself because that was the moment of Creation and therefore the work of God . |
| 25 | But something about Mr Gummer 's face — like the look of insufferable smugness - should have warned Dr Clark that it was all about to go horribly wrong for him . |
| 26 | He knew it was all about to come out . |
| 27 | ‘ I was down there to see Rim and he hardly spoke to me . |
| 28 | As the first night of the Hochhauser Season approached , Suzi Hoflin found herself increasingly torn between dread and a curious sense of wild exhilaration that was only partly to do with the excitement of appearing in a professional production . |
| 29 | This was only here to drive down wages and conditions of our members . |
| 30 | So there was some basis for supposing that the appellants had been informed in writing , that their obligation was only not to sell the property , rather than the wider terms which in fact applied to the injunction . |