Example sentences of "were soon [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were soon ensconced in our sleeping bags outside the refuge . |
| 2 | With the rest of the economy still showing healthy expansion , the Boards were soon faced with the option of disobeying Whitehall or failing in their statutory duty to supply new consumers , and they chose the former , with one Board bluntly saying they were ignoring the Government 's financial allocation ( which was then increased for the industry generally ) . |
| 3 | Any hopes , however , that Eisenhower would use his great prestige to restrain McCarthy were soon dashed . |
| 4 | We stood listening for its soft , rippling warble , and were soon rewarded . |
| 5 | Primitive drag-lines were soon adopted by the richer drainage boards . |
| 6 | At the first village , Amsiwi , we were soon sprawled on cushions under the carved guest-room ceiling in the chief 's house , drinking tea and eating hot , wholemeal pancakes and butter . |
| 7 | Plans drawn up by Mr. Gilbert Bullimore were soon unveiled for a new Science Block , to be built by the side of the tennis courts . |
| 8 | Emilia showed little wish to speak , Louisa had to content herself with reading aloud beside the bed , though the books she suggested were soon rejected in favour of such verses as those of Felicia Hemans and Anna Letitia Barbauld — works that were not at all to her own taste . |
| 9 | Its qualities as a cruiser offshore were soon recognised by an increasing number of serious cruising yachtsmen and women . |
| 10 | His milling design skills were soon recognised by , then responsible for engineering , who recruited to strengthen his team . |
| 11 | The pioneering work of Whipple in 1945 began an era of portosystemic shunt surgery for portal hypertension which remained the primary form of treatment for nearly 30 years even though the consequences of portal diversion such as liver atrophy and encephalopathy were soon recognised . |
| 12 | But that had been all of thirty years ago , and very quickly these demands had multiplied , absorbing more and more time and energy , so that the moments of evening meditation were soon subsumed into the preoccupations and stresses of an active Christianity . |
| 13 | They were soon assured of the truth . |
| 14 | At home we were soon given the answer to a question which had been puzzling us : Who had saved us ? |
| 15 | Striking though the tunnels and cuttings and aqueducts of the canal engineers had been , they were soon surpassed in size and grandeur by those of the railways . |
| 16 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 17 | On the Conservative side , calls for an election were soon heard . |
| 18 | A total of 364 economists , almost one for each day of the year , dispatched a formal letter to The Times denouncing the government 's economic approach as ruinous — though they were soon matched by a similarly large number of economists who were prepared to endorse it . |
| 19 | The losing and finding were soon treated as pure fictions and the defendant was not allowed to deny them . |
| 20 | New taxes were soon devised , but the sectors most usually affected were those with little political influence — the wage-earner and small businesses . |
| 21 | England had lost fewer players than most countries to World Series Cricket and had won a number of rubbers as a result but , when the armistice was signed , England 's limitations were soon exposed . |
| 22 | There was something of that to be sure , but his tours were soon extended to include speeches to more discriminating audiences . |
| 23 | Kaolin , or ‘ china clay ’ , is formed by the decomposition of granite , and Cornwall and Dartmoor were found to have huge deposits which were soon exploited on a large scale . |
| 24 | Militia and regular troops were soon encamped throughout the Southern Counties and a camp was established at Lodge Park , Liskeard . |
| 25 | The great German constitutionalist , Heinrich Triepel , writing in 1906 , looked back on nearly forty years of developments within the German Empire and explained how the early guarantees that the Empire would remain decentralised were soon swept away in the flood of new laws , most of them imposed by Prussian ministries and conforming to Prussian practices . |
| 26 | Bachofen and Maine were soon followed by J. F. McLennan , a Scotsman whose work in part coincided with that of Bachofen and Maine but which developed much more the study of kinship systems . |
| 27 | It was the Eastphalian tribes who first did homage to Charles , accepting Christianity ; they were soon followed by the Engrians , and hostages were taken as security for the oaths made . |
| 28 | They were soon followed by ciprofloxacin ( 10 ) , which has become the reference substance for the modern fluoroquinolones . |
| 29 | Bevin amongst the politicians , and to Field Marshal Montgomery amongst the military , they were soon aligned . |
| 30 | The useless ones were soon weeded out . |