Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] [conj] [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His screams were so terrible that none who ever heard them forgot them till their dying day . |
| 2 | Mr Hart-Davis wrote later : ‘ With needling stabs and twists , she implies Freya 's journeys were less impressive than she herself made out , that she falsified details of her past , and ruthlessly used friends to run errands . |
| 3 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 4 | At the time both critics and audiences were fairly certain that what they liked about these films was their wit , their tempo , their sensational hints of violence and sex , their authentic urban feel , and the utterly realistic acting . |
| 5 | His spies had plotted their course all the way , sending back word by a chain of messengers , until now they knew numbers and names , and were well aware that what they awaited was a national army , glittering with noble pedigrees , not all of them Scottish . |
| 6 | It were quite good cos what we had , we had th the the other partner who was , you know , the other partner is Michael . |
| 7 | The buyers in this particular market were very clear that what they wanted was a small loan , for a fixed amount , over a short period , paid weekly to a collector . |
| 8 | The ambulance men were very worried because whatever he had been stabbed with may have gone through to his lung . |
| 9 | It was so lucky that I It seems so . |
| 10 | It was so cold that anything you said had frozen up before leaving your mouth . |
| 11 | ‘ I wanted to play something really quiet because my hearing at that point was so hyper that everything I could hear was loud . |
| 12 | I was suddenly aware that what she said was true . |
| 13 | The uninhibited joining of their bodies was more glorious than anything she had imagined , and the culminating spasm which rocked and arched her body made her cry out with exquisite agony . |
| 14 | But even if he was more original than he himself claims , he was only producing one of many variations on a Greek scheme . |
| 15 | It was more aggressive than anything I 'd heard since early Who . |
| 16 | The Free State front row was also impressive and it you can imagine three Mighty Mouse McLauchlans , well then you have them . |
| 17 | I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor . |
| 18 | Several emotions battered her at once then , so how she managed to find a voice that was as cool as his she would never know . |
| 19 | To others she merely looked a bit different , and it lent her glamour , but to him , she was as different as anyone who was n't black . |
| 20 | ‘ Heather was as sceptical as you yourself appear . |
| 21 | ‘ One moment , ’ the Maître d'Hôtel said , ‘ while I check , ’ and Lucy was pretty sure that whatever it might say on the reservations list , no booking in the name of Wingate was about to be found . |
| 22 | What remains indeterminate is whether Jesus was truly convinced that he himself had literally to die , or whether it was sufficient that he appear to die . |
| 23 | She was absolutely convinced that what she liked other people wanted too ; a canny instinct which she used always as her guiding principle and from which no one could shake her . |