Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe to him Elise was dead even before she 'd died . |
| 2 | No his throats and his temperature was right up and |
| 3 | Over the years we did n't have quite so much work to do with recording which tyre was on which bus because he took it over , but it was right up until I retired in , well five years ago that we were paying tyres that way . |
| 4 | It was right there and you know and |
| 5 | The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage . |
| 6 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |
| 7 | My knowledge of French was rather better than Benjamin knew . |
| 8 | It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot . |
| 9 | From the outset the whole team here at the hospital was instinctively pally and collegial . |
| 10 | The wife used to wait for somebody coming in the shop to buy something and then she 'd go out and get a a bit of meat and we 'd have a dinner , and er we had seven months of that before I was eventually more or less forced to go back . |
| 11 | In elderly men the incidence of pancreatitis discharges decreased , suggesting that the cause of pancreatitis was most probably because of alcohol or a non-gall stone disease . |
| 12 | Perhaps the prevailing attitude towards adolescents was most plainly and simply described by the objectives of the Birmingham CCC : ‘ To bridge the gulf between the disciplined life of the school and the comparative freedom of the industrial world ; to ensure that care of the young shall not cease with the end of school life ; and to provide the means for the guidance of young persons through the difficulties and perils of adolescence . ’ |
| 13 | Pronounced both fine and valuable by experts , this exquisite collection of pictures was most happily and appropriately acquired by a generous father for his son , who is chief blender in the newly-formed firm of coffee and tea merchants , Brodie Melrose Drysdate & Co . |
| 14 | who was on the ward last night and sister that was on today and I wan na know why and how he fell out of bed when I got up there they said would you like to come in , I said I most certainly would , she said erm , what would you like to say ? |
| 15 | Rumours flared that her relationship with 32-year-old Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora was on again when the two were seen embracing after his band 's surprise London gig last week . |
| 16 | The form teacher then was on about that the school is for teaching only Western ways of living , and European ways of living . |
| 17 | The engine was on now and they were running smoothly towards the mainland . |
| 18 | Er now William of course was on more than one term at the end . |
| 19 | It was on before and I did n't find it very funny at all ! |
| 20 | Down towards the river Severn , the Kidderminster area was relatively more prosperous , more like the clay vales , but in some villages near Worcester , the average per person was little more than £4 , even though fewer than 30 per cent of assessments were under £2 . |
| 21 | At a time when the national income was little more than £2 billion a coal production loss of nearly £100 million and a total loss of nearly £250 million had been incurred . |
| 22 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 23 | When he reached it , the village was little more than six huge farm buildings in the classic German style : each wall a grid of brown-painted timbers , filled in with rough-plastered brickwork . |
| 24 | That was presumably then that we think Lawrence was there , it 's flat , we think his wife 's there . |
| 25 | Moreover , these houses had four rooms , and each room was bigger than its Nottingham counterpart ; and there was rarely more than one family per house . |
| 26 | He would never have guessed that Kitty was rarely more than a dozen yards away from him , knowing he was the one who troubled Mary , shadowing him like a conscience . |
| 27 | there was enough there and people used to tell me used to ask for things . |
| 28 | The British Columbians , despite dogged persistence , could not cope with a pack in which eight men worked as one and where possession once obtained was so powerfully and cunningly retained . |
| 29 | This was so even when the Libyan masses expressed spontaneous enthusiasm for some measure or decree of the government . |
| 30 | This was so even when a child had been submitted for expert medical examination . |