Example sentences of "[conj] was soon " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old popular court , the suitors declared the law and gave judgement , or else passed judgement over to God by making one of the parties submit to an ordeal : to being thrown into a pool , for instance , or made to grasp a red-hot iron ; if he sank , or was soon healed , he was innocent ; otherwise , he was guilty . |
| 2 | Then , with perfect timing , another element entered my life that was soon to prove so important . |
| 3 | It was this implied indictment that was soon to bring so much wrath down on his head . |
| 4 | FLASHBACK one year — and joy that was soon to turn to despair for Eubank , with Michael Watson moments away from collapse Pictures : CHRIS GRIEVE |
| 5 | It was mild by contrast with some of his later invective , but it marked the beginning of a year that was soon to be darkened by violence , malice and crime . |
| 6 | This is a feature of Cubist painting that was soon to become very apparent . |
| 7 | Screen-tested four years later , she did something nasty to her hairline in the interests of personal sultriness , and was soon starring with Fred Astaire in You 'll Never Get Rich and You Were Never Lovelier . |
| 8 | I started up the bagpipes and was soon under way , marching up and down the church hall . |
| 9 | Taff lay down on his back on the floor of the trench , oblivious to the mosquitoes and everything else and was soon snoring loudly . |
| 10 | The voice sounded faint and was soon drowned out by the rush and moan of the shells passing over . |
| 11 | I managed to scrounge some tobacco at Brigade H.Q and was soon handing it over to the Frenchman . |
| 12 | I chose a situation close to a hedgerow and was soon scouting around for logs or pieces of wood to cover the trench and to give some sort of protection against shrapnel . |
| 13 | We sat in the jeep for a few moments watching the column as it disappeared along the very dusty road , and was soon out of sight , after passing Sulnier 's farm . |
| 14 | Now near the Dutch frontier , Harry felt it might be an idea to cross from Germany by climbing into a wagon in a marshalling yard , but after a tedious wait when nothing moved he returned to his cycle and was soon in sight of the red and white border posts . |
| 15 | In Scotland the Scottish Athletic Journal was started in 1882 coming out on Fridays for 2d. and was soon selling 20 ‘ 000 copies . |
| 16 | In 1955 a solitary bottlenose dolphin came to live in the remote Hokianga Harbour in Northland , New Zealand , and was soon to cause a sensation . |
| 17 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 18 | Once back in training he was put over fences : after unseating Champion at Newbury he won at Ascot on 1 April 1977 and was soon being singled out by his connections as a future Grand National winner . |
| 19 | Coming round the final turn Takeshiba-O dropped away rapidly and was soon in last place , with Petrone and Azincourt likewise back-pedalling . |
| 20 | Anna Charsky , native of Leningrad , relaxed her mind and was soon asleep again . |
| 21 | Cicero won , and was soon composing ‘ letters of support ’ for friends seeking positions . |
| 22 | Having been in the militia in 1910 , when he was 14 , on the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Army as a private in the Western Universities Battalion and was soon promoted NCO . |
| 23 | The idea of Dr Bray 's libraries or something very similar , but for the use of the lay public without any missionary purpose , spread across America backed by Benjamin Franklin and was soon re-exported to England , where it formed the basis of the public libraries as we know them , first as subscription libraries , then as public libraries supported by the rates . |
| 24 | Dawn made good progress , and was soon able to stand up . |
| 25 | This was not wholly successful and was soon abandoned . |
| 26 | After a brief return to London , he went to Manchester , and was soon in business building spinning machines for the cotton mills , from which he graduated to becoming a mill owner himself at New Lanark ( q.v. ) with a thousand employees . |
| 27 | He was introduced by Tom Evans , a younger school friend , to his widowed mother Mrs Evans , and was soon being welcomed with unaffected warmth into the family home near Christ 's Hospital . |
| 28 | He was posted first to Reading , and was soon proving himself a soldier and horseman of rare incompetence . |
| 29 | He put his rifle and his steel helmet up on the rack and was soon asleep . |
| 30 | This was inconvenient and too elongated and was soon superseded by a scheme involving the acquisition of sixteen houses that Sir Samuel Fludyer still owned on the south side of Fludyer Street , and the realigning and widening of Downing Street . |