Example sentences of "was [vb pp] clean " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that if the handle moved faster it would sound better , so I really exerted every ounce of my miserable muscle power and the handle jerked forward with such force that I was lifted clean off the ground . |
| 2 | The crickets chirped , the stars pulsed , the experience was wiped clean . |
| 3 | When Ruth came out , she was wiped clean of all colours but her own black and white . |
| 4 | Everything was scrubbed clean , as she was herself . |
| 5 | The place was scrubbed clean though flies feasted on the huge globules of red blood spattered across the white-washed walls . |
| 6 | Often , when I switched on the light to make sure that the dish was scraped clean , I was disgusted at the mess I had been eating . |
| 7 | It was an unsatisfactory conclusion in that the issue of principle was left clean open for future argument . |
| 8 | The site was left clean and with a red stone surface |
| 9 | The site was left clean and with a red stone surface |
| 10 | And I was knocked clean out of my right wits at first . |
| 11 | Then there I was come back from ante-natal and it was blown clean away . |
| 12 | It was kept clean by the simple method of scrubbing it with fine sand — a commodity in no short supply during Richard 's desert campaigns ! |