Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was joined there later by Debbie 's father and they strolled around the beautiful gardens together . |
| 2 | Grandmother 's portrait had been there before but was tucked away now in an alcove in the dining-room . |
| 3 | Originally the Galloway type was dominant in southwest Scotland ; the breed was formed more specifically towards the end of the sixteenth century and was already popular across the border in the seventeenth century for fattening in large numbers . |
| 4 | Gray noted , also , that Hel 's kingdom was banished so far from Asgard , the home of the gods , that it took ODIN nine days and nights to reach it . |
| 5 | The lack of a goalkeeper was exposed most harshly at Felton on Saturday . |
| 6 | They now seemed too cautious , too reluctant to admit to the most defective aspects of the post-medieval Catholic tradition , too little aware of the real situation in the Church of the southern hemisphere ( whose voice was heard remarkably little in the Council 's debates ) . |
| 7 | They longed for deliverance from Roman oppression , and were encouraged to think that they would not have much longer to wait as the prophetic voice was heard once more in the land after centuries of silence . |
| 8 | That need was highlighted again yesterday as one of the reasons for the Darty takeover . |
| 9 | She treated coldly all attempts to dab the scent on her own sleeve , rejected any suggestion that it could suitably be tried out on Owen and Mahmoud , and insisted that it be tested on a woman , an assistant , perhaps , or , preferably , the shopkeeper 's wife , a suggestion which , with its hint of superiority , would have had shopkeepers in the more Westernized parts of the city grovelling but was treated simply commercially in the bazaar . |
| 10 | Hyoscine-N-butylbromide ( 40 mg ) was given intravenously immediately before measurements to minimise peristalsis . |
| 11 | The dragon 's internal boiler was situated very near to its stomach , and since he was making tremendous efforts to cool down , there were also terrifying hissing and grinding sounds . |
| 12 | Spanish industry , by contrast , was situated almost entirely in areas which had remained loyal to the Republic . |
| 13 | Another text with allusions to Jewish ethical norms attributed to Phocylides was recognized long ago to be a Jewish forgery of the Hellenistic age . |
| 14 | Gallup in September 1980 asked voters to indicate which of various descriptions best suited the two candidates and Reagan was placed well ahead of Carter on several leadership questions : ‘ Has strong leadership qualities ’ , 65 per cent — 31 per cent ; ‘ Decisive sure of himself , 69 per cent — 37 per cent ; ‘ Has a well defined progam for moving the country ahead ’ , 53 per cent — 27 per cent ; ‘ You know where he stands on the issues ’ , 54 per cent — 33 per cent . |
| 15 | W. S. I was posted right away on nights . |
| 16 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 17 | The difference was compounded even further with the consideration that American pay-rates were two or three times ours . |
| 18 | The legislation was resented bitterly enough by the Netherlands to lead to a war in which the English Republic was able to assert itself against the Dutch Republic . |
| 19 | Mr Moore had been displaying the Spitfire for nine years before the accident , and was regarded very highly as a master of the machine |
| 20 | More Tamils than Sinhalese lived in Nuvara Eliya district , which during the Kandyan Kingdom was inhabited almost entirely by Sinhalese . |
| 21 | Material from the Bolshevik party and later the Third International was received only sporadically by individuals , although what did arrive was circulated with significant impact . |
| 22 | The Soviet plan was received more favourably in Kuwait . |
| 23 | The fact that the game was received so enthusiastically in such places as Argentina , Uruguay and Brazil , countries which had had south European rather than British cultures thrust upon them , testifies to the wide popular appeal of football . |
| 24 | He wanted to say her name but he could not remember it ; he wanted to engage in the physical endearments and gentleness he so much prided himself on bestowing and was received so gratefully for so doing , but this lean , hard-bodied girl would have none of it . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , no ! ’ he gave a deep rumble of laughter , the sound echoing menacingly in her ear , which was pressed so closely to his broad chest . |
| 26 | She tried to shake her head , but found she was pressed so hard against the stack behind her that movement was impossible . |
| 27 | ‘ It is true , ’ Emilia cried , and her breast shuddered again , and the handkerchief was pressed more tightly against her face . |
| 28 | This was developed very highly in the Hollywood movies of the Thirties where they attempted to put ‘ colour ’ into the pictures in terms of light and shade . |
| 29 | Progress was greater , for example , with developing management systems than with defining objectives , decentralization was developed more readily in field offices than in headquarters and policy divisions , and performance measurement applied more easily to inputs than outputs , and to administrative rather than programme expenditure . |
| 30 | The deck of cards was stacked even further in their favour when HKRFU chairman Don Watson and his organising committee decided , in view of the waterlogged pitch , to replace scrummages with a tapped penalty going to the side getting the put-in . |