Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I were right here and I 'd got that light out |
| 2 | They were right back where they had started . |
| 3 | Just when you started to think you had finally got a grip on this thing they would throw in the Bombay Khojas and you were right back where you started . |
| 4 | There were rather more than four people at the 1985 clipping ceremony , indeed the church was full . |
| 5 | Her manners , as well as her looks , were rather better than most , it was agreed — which was fortunate for the Blaines . |
| 6 | The importance of east Asia in the general consular picture is especially marked in the case of Britain : by the end of the nineteenth century , when there were rather less than 200 salaried members of the British general consular service spread across the world , the more specialised and highly trained one which operated in China alone numbered seventy-five ( including student interpreters and assistants ) . |
| 7 | You may say the Americans were wonderful with their ambulances but they did n't pay for the dairy and half the animals were dead already or had to be slaughtered . |
| 8 | It was found as a fact by the arbitrator that the goods " were commercially within and merchantable under the contract specification " . |
| 9 | Some were little more than 50 hectares , although the Tyneside zone was over 450 hectares . |
| 10 | Most theories were little more or less than an integrated set of concepts or too impossibly abstract to have much direct relevance for social research . |
| 11 | She stared down at her plate , wishing she knew what to answer , wishing she were somewhere else but they never let her out of their sight . |
| 12 | It was an effort to move their legs but just possible , and they edged forward , past Mr Chan and Steve , past a couple of policemen — all looking as if their real selves were somewhere else and only their bodies were on Monument Hill , held immobile just as the cars were . |
| 13 | Now on tornado the development costs erm I know , exceeded the original expectation by quite a considerable margin but the production costs were much less and overall , taking the two lots together , it turned out to be a good buy . |
| 14 | Some of our relatives were better off than us : they had cars , praised Churchill and voted Conservative , to my father 's disgust . |
| 15 | Although those older workers in full-time employment were substantially better off than other groups , the early retired were better off than the rest . |
| 16 | In Cornwall and Worcestershire even the unbeneficed clergy were better off than the average , the overall position being that of an affluent clerical establishment alongside a relatively poor laity . |
| 17 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 18 | America in the 1950s was accurately described by a leading economists as " the affluent society " in which most people — though not all — were better off than ever before . |
| 19 | Most of us , children of tradesmen , miners and semi-skilled factory workers , were better off than that and had higher hopes , though there was a good scattering of nits and lice and dirty feet around the classroom when the nurse came to do her inspection . |
| 20 | Perhaps the seamen , with the advantage of the 10s increase at the beginning of 1913 and the £poundl increase of the Admiralty Agreement , were better off than many others in the early months of the war . |
| 21 | So the family , we as a family were better off than the majority of er of families er in so far that er er whilst we were a a fair sized family , we did have at least some income , in the form of unemployment pay er that my father received . |
| 22 | The Tutworker could have a reasonable income which was more or less guaranteed ; the Tributer was more in a position of winning or losing ; the Day Workers , with the lowest wages , were only hired as required but even so were better off than the local farm labourer ; bearing in mind that the mine was not a particularly unhealthy one . |
| 23 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
| 24 | You were better off when you were talking ! |
| 25 | They were halfway down when the thought struck her . |
| 26 | The main axes of the centuriation were somewhat improbably and completely artificially taken as the eastward continuation of the line of Watling Street , from before its deviation slightly southwards at Salters Cross on its approach to the suburb at Strood and to the Medway bridge , and the extension northwards of the alignment of the road from Maidstone to Rochester . |
| 27 | Her eyes , her nose and her mouth were all round and definite and soft , and her hair surrounded her head like a designer 's hat , Afro-styled and aggressive . |
| 28 | The words were all right but the lack of emphasis made Peter suspicious . |
| 29 | The young ones were all right but the older ones were horrible . |
| 30 | They made enquiries as to whether the beds were all right and the water hot . |