Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe Jeff was right that the man was insufferable and she had simply been bowled over by his formidable good looks and by that quality of heady excitement he exuded . |
| 2 | I wish Marie was here so we could talk about it . |
| 3 | By about 1860 , the cloth trade in Painswick was all but extinct , one of the last survivors the concern of E.P . |
| 4 | ‘ I was told that Mr Morley was here and I just needed a brief word . ’ |
| 5 | Adams was aboard when Party Politics scored his first victory in a two-and-a-half mile novice chase at Warwick in Feb 1990 . |
| 6 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |
| 7 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 8 | Masked by the formalities of the telegram sent yesterday morning to Mr Major by M Jacques Delors , EC commission president , the mood in the corridors of Brussels was less than euphoric . |
| 9 | And Lucy was blithely or otherwise ignoring that fact . |
| 10 | For the next couple of years , Sinitta was dog-less as she ran up an amazing string of chart hits with the guidance of the nowlegendary Stock , Aitken and Waterman . |
| 11 | Branson was less than enthusiastic . |
| 12 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 13 | ‘ But the night before last , when we were in the garden , you knew Didi was here and it did n't seem to bother you overmuch . ’ |
| 14 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 15 | All went well until the dreadful day when Killigrew was away and a letter arrived for Mistress A. Killigrew . |
| 16 | He did n't know Ken was there until he heard a cackle coming from the back of the stalls . |
| 17 | The fact was that Corbett was more than a bit of an embarrassment . |
| 18 | Frau Fegel was less than enthusiastic . |
| 19 | Although Falmouth was less than half-a-mile away there was a curious feeling of isolation . |
| 20 | Until the past two years Drexel was right that the total return from investing in a diversified portfolio of junk bonds overcompensated for the default rate . |
| 21 | J.B. Because Father Curtis was there and I thought you know he wo n't want some married woman who goes round not wearing a wedding ring in charge of all these kids will he ? |
| 22 | Master Vechey was here when Brother Athelstan and I came to the house for the first time . |
| 23 | The home fans were angry because they thought Andy Ansah was offside when big striker Ian Benjamin hit the 75th-minute winner . |
| 24 | Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . " |
| 25 | Glasgow and Edinburgh airports had 9pc passenger number increases last month while Aberdeen was more than 5pc up . |
| 26 | Coming back to England from one of these school-holiday visits to Hungary , Jane was more than ever struck by the contrast . |
| 27 | Nigel was almost as impressed with the fireplace as I had been , and really it inspired a feeling that was almost reverent . |
| 28 | In the second of the Superbike races , which was cut short , winner Fogarty was more than delighted when clerk of the course Billy Nutt announced that the full prize money would be paid out . |
| 29 | However , in the short run , Gdynia was more than capable of causing the Danzigers severe economic distress and genuine hardship . |
| 30 | Now ten years old , Ellie was more or less expected to run the house day by day . |