Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] was [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her . |
| 2 | I suspect the King was surrounded and was lightly wounded by arrows . |
| 3 | It was reported to him that Lizzy 's hair was still golden , but his MSS book stank ; it had to be disinfected and was eventually burned . |
| 4 | But the coroner added that the water system had since been disinfected and was now cleaned out regularly . |
| 5 | I found myself superseded by much younger men , and so resigned and was duly pensioned off . |
| 6 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 7 | Along the inland , mostly mountainous boundary , despite the efforts of the joint delimitation commission , much remained to be clarified and was still causing difficulties in 1980 . |
| 8 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 9 | He fled but was later caught by police . |
| 10 | Happy was hard to find but was generously cast as Bryan Gould . |
| 11 | Obviously , the Government share the hon. Gentleman 's pleasure at the fact that the liquidator may well be working out an arrangement with the main shareholders that would mean BCCI 's creditors possibly getting a considerably greater return on what they are owed than was previously thought possible . |
| 12 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 13 | ‘ Before the fireman could fasten his belt ’ read the Wolverton Express report , ‘ there was a buzzing sound in the stables , the doors of which flew wide open and Bessie and Harry , with heads erect and eyes flashing , galloped to the shafts , stopping just under the suspended harness which dropped and was automatically locked on their backs ’ . |
| 14 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 15 | His son worked in the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation here , till an English lad , totally unqualified , came and was immediately employed above him . |
| 16 | If Skipper had been an older horse who knew what he should do and was simply messing about , a reprimand might have been in order . |
| 17 | Eventually he stopped writing and was never heard of again . |
| 18 | Markby asked twice if she were cold and she knew he 'd noticed and was politely trying to find out what was wrong . |
| 19 | It had leather straps and jessies attatched and was easily caught . |
| 20 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 21 | The crust solidified and was heavily bombarded by later impacts , the bombardment tailing off about 3300 Ma ago . |
| 22 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |
| 23 | In the late 1930s , however , the Club failed and was later taken over by C.A.V. |
| 24 | Outside , huge stars blazed like shaggy white chrysanthemums ; the moon had stopped blushing and was now flooding the pampas with ghostly silver light . |
| 25 | KHAI Eng is from Malaysia and an architect by profession but loved cooking and was often asked to create dinner parties for her clients . |
| 26 | Mr Nellis was also treated and was later released . |
| 27 | One must be careful not to sentimentalise : more detailed anthropological studies would be needed to see how far this respect was diluted as frailty advanced or was ritually accorded , without substance . |
| 28 | Ozone is itself a form of greenhouse gas — helping to retain the sun 's reflected heat in the atmosphere - , and its destruction may be allowing more heat to escape than was hitherto thought , compensating for the increased heat retention caused by the build up of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other " greenhouse gases " . |
| 29 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 30 | She could not abide snuff-taking and was always going on about Florrie Axford 's nasty habits . |