Example sentences of "[was/were] really [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we were really looking for a home for the turbine ( which needed a thirty-foot head of water ) , as well as for ourselves . |
| 2 | I remember her pointing it out to me saying what was in it when we were really looking for something else . ’ |
| 3 | because er , when they say how old are you and you say forty nine , they say oh well we , we , we were really looking for somebody a bit younger |
| 4 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 5 | So off they went and the decks were really cleared for action . |
| 6 | Members were really tested in November when , at the Almondsbury Interchange Hotel , Barr Thornton of Dale Carnegie delivered an exhilarating talk on time pressure management . |
| 7 | Scientists from the NEC corporation in Japan have developed a Virtual Reality ski slope that is so realistic users experience exactly the same stress as if they were really hurtling down a mountain . |
| 8 | When Gordon Parsons dismissed Mike Atherton ( 33 ) Lancashire were really struggling at 66 for two in the 27th over . |
| 9 | When Gordon Parsons dismissed Mike Atherton ( 33 ) Lancashire were really struggling at 66 for two in the 27th over . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 11 | Connecting with their deities , through consciousness raised by ritual , through dance or song , through drugs or sexual congress , they were really connecting with this primal force . |
| 12 | Those letters from you , it got so I almost believed they were really written to me . |
| 13 | ‘ I wanted to find out what you were really like behind the rock-star image . |
| 14 | They talked about the difficulty of getting food in , when all they could find was Chinese takeaway ; about strange knocks at the door of the hotel room , and why the Iranians sometimes left unexpectedly , and who the hell they were really dealing with ; about North 's pressing need for aspirin ; and about getting the hostages out , for which the only foreseeable currency was arms . |
| 15 | Circumstances were really conspiring against her ! |
| 16 | She says ; We were really suprised considering the way the market is at the moment It was very pleasing . |
| 17 | The confessional is a matter of secrecy , but what is not secret is that , when they were really working at it , the previous Labour Government ensured that far more than 7 million days a year were lost through strikes . |
| 18 | If we were really working in Christ all the time , yes |
| 19 | They were really feeling like prisoners and in need of consolation . |
| 20 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 21 | But he were really going at it you know . |
| 22 | He noticed as we 'd all noticed that in in respect of law and order that things were really going from bad to worse , were deteriorating . |
| 23 | And I , si there was a concentration camp for the Italians and they were really smashing to us ! |
| 24 | She was a plump young nome who wore trousers and was good at engineering and had actually volunteered to be a guard instead of staying at home learning how to cook ; things were really changing in the quarry . |
| 25 | We were really mixing with the stars then as Chris Tarrant came into the canteen ! ’ |
| 26 | All they were really talking about was fucking . |
| 27 | It was precisely the power of Jacobitism as a negative ideal which explains the strength of the Jacobite challenge at the time of the Hanoverian succession , but also its ultimate failure , since there were few people who were really committed to the positive alternative which the Stuarts represented . |
| 28 | Lists of the so-called Anti-Reformers or Boroughmongers were set out in the radical press , and as the electors were so few and were persons of standing , their views were really known in advance and the outcome could be predicted accurately — contrary to the modern opinion polls which so often are at variance with the result . |
| 29 | Algebraically , this can be shown to be equivalent to , If the energy required to propagate the crack by producing the two new fracture surfaces were really confined to C , the free surface energy ( which is seldom much above I J/m 2 ) , then simple arithmetic will show that , at any realistic stress level , the critical crack length would be very short indeed , perhaps around a micron . |
| 30 | We had not the experts in Burmese poetry who were really needed for this task , only a handful of hymns in the true Burmese style were available , and these had been composed earlier by Father Jackson . |