Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [coord] [pers pn] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | University posts , however , were an attractive means of obliging friends , and a good deal safer , for popular feeling was rarely aroused and it was relatively easy to escape from an importunate friend by arguing that the place had already been promised . |
| 2 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 3 | It was later written that he was ‘ … right glad to be translated from Bristol to Exeter for , while the former See was poor , the latter was better endowed and he was not withheld by any scruples from begging for promotion ’ . |
| 4 | Eric 's name was not given but it was not difficult to guess that it was him . |
| 5 | Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company . |
| 6 | His return route is not known but he was much quicker than on his way out as he arrived in Moscow at the beginning of February , 1718 , only 8 months after he left Peking . |
| 7 | Best of the Best followed and he was back in business . |
| 8 | ( In Franklin there was a crime , larceny ( nowadays theft ) , but that crime was not mentioned and it was not in itself dangerous . ) |
| 9 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |
| 10 | It was one of the biggest deals I had ever done and it was also harvest time . |
| 11 | The Collector 's delirium still continued and he was undoubtedly becoming weaker ; because of these continuing symptoms McNab now substituted bark , chloric aether , and ammonia in effervescence for the laudanum and asked Miriam to increase the brandy to half an ounce every hour . |
| 12 | It was the only sport he had ever practised and he was inordinately proud of it . |
| 13 | Her face and voice were also transformed and she was quite an attractive woman . |
| 14 | His reputation as a brilliant , caring craftsman and surgeon has been extensively recorded but he was also a dedicated mentor of nurses , introducing the new Nightingale ward design to the Royal Infirmary and the clinical teaching of nurses on Sunday morning rounds . |
| 15 | The race itself was very well organised but I was absolutely amazed at the way in which the winning women were treated in comparison to the winning men during the prize giving ceremony later on . |
| 16 | Settling herself , settling her skirts , her veils and her abaya , she motioned to her companion to get in , gave a nod to her black driver and with a quick firm ‘ Ma'salaama ’ ( goodbye ) and an even quicker ‘ Bismallah ’ ( in the name of God ) , the doors were resoundingly shut and she was off . |
| 17 | The room was poorly furnished but it was spotlessly clean and a cheerful fire blazed in the blackened hearth . |
| 18 | We 'd never met and I was n't very familiar with his work . |
| 19 | His industry and skill were again amply demonstrated and he was soon appointed captain . |
| 20 | He was never tightfisted but it was n't often he was that generous . |
| 21 | John Reith 's part , both in his capacity as the company 's managing director and as the director general of the corporation , in the creation of this ideal model of public service broadcasting , has been amply documented and he was undoubtedly able to exploit such thinking in a way not equalled elsewhere or since . |
| 22 | But he was never mentioned and it was more than her life was worth to ask . |