Example sentences of "were soon [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1604 he made an apparently excellent marriage but within a year his wife revealed her reversion to Catholicism , whereupon their estates were soon either sold or sequestrated . |
| 2 | The advancing Imperial Fists , and their surviving Land Raiders and Rhinos , were soon likewise denuded of any significant cover — whereupon the Warlord Titans opened fire from their lofty eminence to rake the terrain with laser beams , heat-beams , plasma , and cannon shells . |
| 3 | Warehouses were soon liberally festooned with bombs , and on the way out a number of parked fuel-tanker lorries were attended to . |
| 4 | But somehow Mrs Lundy 's were always better , and invitations to her gatherings were soon eagerly sought after . |
| 5 | Detroit-made compacts began to challenge cheap Volkswagens and foreign imports : only , being produced under the Detroit philosophy of more car per car , they were soon so accessorized , automated and air-conditioned that they were no longer cheap . |