Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Knightley had arrived home in grand — if not entirely dignified — style , and luckily he was just in time to decide whether or not the quarry project should go ahead . |
| 2 | And then yesterday Bill went to work again and luckily he was home by lunchtime . |
| 3 | and I stood there den of iniquity in here , with the three of them , and luckily she was n't paying attention , she went on to something else and they all looked at me and burst out laughing . |
| 4 | And he stopped and luckily there was just enough room for me to slow down and just go between them . |
| 5 | And eventually there was quite a few went back before they were paid for . |
| 6 | Only forty-nine farm schools had secondary classes , of which no more than five went up to Standard Seven ( nine school grades ) and nation-wide there was only one full secondary farm school . |
| 7 | Emilia had been long sick with pregnancy ; she had lost the child ; and somewhere she was terribly afraid . |
| 8 | My head ached dully and altogether I was n't at my best . |
| 9 | And besides there was also an element of perversion , the persistence of infantile formations : God knows how [ blacks ] make love ! |
| 10 | The old retainer who had received them on their first visit tried to help but Cranston pushed him gently away , saying it was a holiday and besides he was here at Sir Richard 's request to pursue his inquiries privately . |
| 11 | And suddenly I was absolutely certain that this woman was Estella 's mother . |
| 12 | And suddenly it was n't a play any more . |
| 13 | Every second it was growing louder , and suddenly it was no longer a small wind , it was a fearsome swooshing whooshing whiffling snorting noise that sounded as though some gigantic creature was breathing heavily through its nose as it galloped towards him . |
| 14 | Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over . |
| 15 | We rose over the shoulder " of a hill , and suddenly it was there beneath us , looking glorious with the afternoon light sparkling on its rippled surface . |
| 16 | She had done nothing to deserve Deana 's petty jibes , and suddenly it was too much . |
| 17 | Time stood still and suddenly there was only one focus — this mounting , spiralling pressure that set off a high-pitched singing inside her head and made breathing hazardous . |
| 18 | And suddenly she was hopelessly , desperately aware of the hard male body that her arm was circling . |
| 19 | And suddenly she was wide awake . |
| 20 | And suddenly she was no longer sure that it was scales . |
| 21 | The house appeared to be deserted , and suddenly she was not only reluctant , but downright scared . |
| 22 | And suddenly she was n't confused any longer . |
| 23 | And suddenly she was back in that embrace in the water . |
| 24 | The door was quickly opened and shut , and suddenly he was there with her . |
| 25 | And so something was always cold . |
| 26 | Er about this strike and er but time went on and it became obvious that er nobody were going to win only the boss like this boss , course he was he was scratching through , and so they called the strike off and every person who worked at er every firm had a meeting and they all decided to take so many and every firm took so many of the workers and so nobody was ever unemployed as a consequence of the strike which was very very good . |
| 27 | ‘ They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about . |
| 28 | The car was not bought for resale , and the purchase was incidental to the company 's business as a freight forwarder ; it was only the second or third car bought by the company and so there was not the required degree of regularity . |
| 29 | I 'm now having to buy more uniform for my child and so there was never a binding court order . |
| 30 | The main aim was to win new audiences and so there was always room for experiment , especially at the better end of the market . |