Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea . |
| 3 | ‘ I finished with my boyfriend recently and he was right there to tell me there are plenty more fish in the sea . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And after all Elizabeth had done for her , heaven only knew it was little enough to ask in return . |
| 7 | It was little enough to go on , but it was at least a beginning . |
| 8 | It was little enough to expect . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was enough just to look at them . |
| 13 | It was enough simply to know that otters were out there somewhere . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Taken in with his bottle of National Dried Milk and vitamin drops that it was all right to kill . |
| 19 | After all , she was all right to flirt with at parties and escort him occasionally . |
| 20 | But he was all right to work with if you knew your job . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This was only here to drive down wages and conditions of our members . |
| 24 | It was only just to give Mr Heseltine , who played so prominent a role in the Tory victory , the job he so much wanted as Industry Secretary . |
| 25 | Steve Smith , the 19-year-old Liverpool high jumper , smashed his British and Commonwealth indoor record with 2.37m , but it was only enough to earn him the bronze . |
| 26 | At first it had seemed he was only there to sit out the war with his French woman , but then the summons had come from the Dutch army and Isabella had known that her husband would follow Sharpe . |
| 27 | Harry did n't really have his heart at the Centre and was only there to please his wife . |
| 28 | Submission to central authority was deeply ingrained in its 150 years ' history , and the hospital was only now to throw off the last traces of its even more ancient deterrent purpose . |
| 29 | The effect of Gloucester 's national importance was thus largely to reinforce his regional connection . |
| 30 | The effect of Gloucester 's national importance was thus largely to reinforce his regional connection . |