Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Owada rebuffed the prince on several occasions ; indeed , winning her hand in marriage required so much pressure that the union , billed as a merger , was rather more like a hostile takeover . |
| 2 | Representation was most frequently by a friend or relative , or by a social worker , though there was a large unhelpful category labelled ‘ other ’ , which might well include welfare rights advisers . |
| 3 | Polo was all right as a hobby , but for a living , as Angel 's father , who prided himself on his English had pointed out , it was distinctly ‘ Non-U ’ . |
| 4 | His wife Maggie kept on eye on him but said it was all right for a special occasion and that he could rejoin the pledge tomorrow . |
| 5 | I 'd also got an injunction against him because he became violent , and that was all right for a bit . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought he was all right for a millionaire . |
| 7 | ‘ She was all right until a minute ago , ’ he protested . |
| 8 | He tapped the desk as though it was all there in a diagram that I should have already looked at . |
| 9 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 10 | forty miles an hour in a forty zone and he just got , right up my arse , he was obviously somewhere in a hurry somewhere in a hurry , you know ? |
| 11 | Brief because Patten — worried voters might spot him and rip him limb from limb — was only here for a day before flying back to the homes , yachts , Daimlers , helicopters , butlers and £152,000 tax-free salary Major gave him when making him Hong Kong Governor as reward for losing his seat . |
| 12 | I was only here for a very short while , during which time I saw . |
| 13 | That I could understand , yeah something that was sort of that shape , even if it was only just at an angle , but it , I would of said that was much to big for it . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ He took a chance coming in here , I was only away for a few minutes . |
| 15 | But his gesture was shrugged off by organisers of the 40-nation conference because Karadzic was only there as an observer . |
| 16 | I ca n't say for sure ; I mean , I was only there for a second or two … |
| 17 | She was thus neither from a printing family , nor from a middle-class background , and felt obliged to counter rumours about her financial status : " It has been rumoured that I am a suffragette and a paid official : as a matter of fact , I an neither . |
| 18 | George was utterly still for a moment , before rolling over on to his stomach . |
| 19 | work when I was fifteen , and I was away then for a while and then after the war when I come back I was working at at Cruisbruk . |
| 20 | Fox was already there with a pharmacologist from the country hospital who was looking at Alfred 's stock of drugs with a view to discovering a possible source of the poison . |
| 21 | For that reason alone some historians would even argue that Britain 's decline as a manufacturing nation was already underway within a generation of the onset of the Industrial Revolution itself . |
| 22 | On the 1986 West Indies tour , when he was just there as a batsman , we had one particular discussion with Bob Willis at a beach bar in Antigua . |
| 23 | The voice was low more like a growl . |
| 24 | i do n't think she was ever away for a holiday . |
| 25 | He seems to have left Trinity in less than friendly circumstances , possibly because his bookselling came to overwhelm his scholarly duties , but by 1669 he was once again with a proper position , this time as an employee of the university itself . |
| 26 | My mother was once more in a difficult position . |
| 27 | I mean it was always there as a defence mechanism so you |
| 28 | He 'd shifted position and walked up and down a piece of the street a few times , but this was hardly enough on a day when his own breath hung in the air before him . |
| 29 | The yellow and black police barrier was still there as a warning to other drivers coming over the crest of the hill . |
| 30 | It is said that Ferdinand made all three brothers promise to defer to Rodrigo del Bivar , putting him virtually in loco parentis to the infantas , though he was still only of an age with them . |