Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This 6.30 a.m. walk to breakfast was just about the worst part of the day , when my morale was low and thoughts of home rose painfully . |
| 2 | The only time I 've flown was when I paid five bob for a trip in Alan Cobham 's flying circus . ’ |
| 3 | It was held that reference to bias was out of place in this context . |
| 4 | Could you please , please please send me another poster as the one I got with my Zzap ! ( which I 've enclosed was only half completed . |
| 5 | ‘ He had been nursed superbly and that needs to be said because the nurses have gone through a difficult time for obvious reasons and I would like to assure them , in public , that what they have done was quite superlative . ’ |
| 6 | The comparison drawn between the company and the state in no way detracts from the contractual conception of the company , which we have seen was originally adopted to legitimate the vesting of broad discretion to manage the company in the hands of the directors . |
| 7 | But the principle to which we have adverted was not presented to his mind in its simple form ; and the point certainly did not undergo much consideration . |