Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , of course , it was worth considerably more than I 'd been offered , and there were the most unpleasant suggestions flying around . |
| 2 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 3 | There was the most fearful flapdoodle afterwards . |
| 4 | There was the most tremendous row — Sykes refused to go with them at first , and the master was brought in to persuade him . |
| 5 | There was the most God-awful row with the family . |
| 6 | On 20th February 1803 he recorded a visit to Wastwater , which he reached over Langdale Head , ‘ Went down to the foot of the water , got up the side of the skrees , where there was the most awful and tremendous storm of thunder and lightning and hail I ever remembered . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed quietly , and suddenly found that there was the most awful lump in her throat , and that her vision was blurred by tears . |
| 8 | And do you know , with this arm it was the right arm as well there was the most beautiful sewing . |
| 9 | There was the most profound admiration mingled with her affection for the elder sister who had brought her up ever since their mother 's death , twelve years ago . |
| 10 | There was the most horrible letter in England or Britain joining the Common Market . |
| 11 | Then there was the rather sharp bout of questioning , which had had , on both sides , a sort of wariness about it . |
| 12 | There was the astonishingly tough Lieutenant Nungesser . |
| 13 | There was the very up-market Pâtisserie , a very down-market haberdashers which had n't changed since the 1930s , and the priest playing boules with a friend in front of the church . |
| 14 | Except that there was the very disturbing thought lodged somewhere in her mind that she did n't want it to be harmless . |
| 15 | Added to the simple foundation for it , there was the more complex one that he somehow found it essential to hide his wound about Bella from notice . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , there was the more urgent matter of why we had been followed . |
| 17 | There was the now familiar feeling of not-a-lot-happening . |
| 18 | Instead , there was the now familiar preoccupation with the police officer 's perception of impending violence . |
| 19 | In the first half of the seventeenth century the traditional Elizabethan style carried on , unabashed by fashion ; then again there was the purely classical Queen 's House at Greenwich , built by Inigo Jones , as radically different to the former as chalk is to cheese . |
| 20 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |