Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm terribly glad I was in time to stop you , Miss Clinton , ’ Jenny said earnestly . |
| 2 | I only worked there for about two months , I was so tired I was like a zombie . |
| 3 | At nights , particularly , she had felt loneliness so great it was as if a hole had been torn in her soul , something irreplaceable had been ripped from her . |
| 4 | John 's tears were so enormous it was like trying to stem a leak in the plumbing . |
| 5 | Following the performance , officials at the hospital and members of the audience were invited to an informal get-together an event which was so successful it was to repeated at the October production and hopefully will become a feature at every future production . |
| 6 | I was so hurt it was like a serious wound , it would start being painful soon but in the meantime there was just an apprehensive numbness . |
| 7 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 8 | I , since the time when I first became morally certain I was in love , seem to have grown years older … |
| 9 | She was lying naked on bare boards in an empty room , not bound but somehow bounded , and a man whose face she could never see , his mouth so sweet it was like eating candy to kiss him , made violent love to her . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting , ’ said Courier , ‘ but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 12 | He cried out , a sound of pain and rage so inarticulate it was like a seagull 's screech . |
| 13 | Another officer said of him : ‘ I think we were just glad he was on our side . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm not surprised she was for cats ' meat , ’ Biddy said . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , the point was , I 'm not surprised he was in debt . |
| 16 | ‘ When I found out they were still alive I was over the moon . ’ |
| 17 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 18 | My dad would say , Stay well away from them , he was always afraid they were after him for all the taxes he had n't paid . |
| 19 | The efficiency of government could only be increased at the expense of its popularity ; the more corrupt and less efficient the government , the more acceptable it was to creole merchants and landowners . |
| 20 | We were always convinced we were in there with a chance . |
| 21 | By and large , the more important a command ( importance being judged by the size of territorial authority , or , more appropriately in time of peace , by the numbers of men involved ) the more likely it was to be given to a man who had achieved it as a result of attendance at court . |
| 22 | Generally speaking , the longer the period of planning for an escape the more satisfactory it was for the prospective escaper . |
| 23 | Though warfare came increasingly to be in competition with marriage marketing as the chief business of kings , it lost none of its importance in the eyes of contemporaries : the more indecisive it became , the more attached they were to it . |
| 24 | Even so , the more successful they were in boosting speed and trimming fuel needs , the worse ocean freighters ' economics became . |
| 25 | The fuller the gym was , the more isolated you were with your visitors , because you were in a crowd . |
| 26 | Because oxidants damage DNA and are also mutagenic it was of interest to determine whether DNA damage might be causing induction of the CL100 gene . |
| 27 | Everyone tried to help , reassuring her that this was a good omen , she would be marvellous when it came to the actual performance , but it was fairly obvious she was in a bad way . |
| 28 | We would like to say how pleasantly surprised we were with the countryside and the excellent excursions which were available , also the facilities , good accommodation and food provided by the Hotel Anthracyt ’ . |
| 29 | It was immediately apparent they were in a lady 's room . |
| 30 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |