Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's wasting no time on me , Kate thought , as she was deftly served before the girl turned back to show Ace her white teeth once again . |
| 2 | Blackadder chose silence , and Ash was duly exposed and found wanting . |
| 3 | And yet it is no more than a nine-horse race , even if one of the teams is more pony than stallion , and no extreme predictions will be found in this column ; the taste of the printed page proved far too unpalatable in 1983 , when criticism of India , eventual World Cup winners , was duly exposed as unwarranted and the urgent suggestion that one should eat one 's words was honourably met . |
| 4 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 5 | They were therefore unable to ensure that justice was duly done because Amanieu de Fossat was protecting him . |
| 6 | The post was duly advertised and an appointment was made from the end of June . |
| 7 | In June the National Union finally decided its attitude : it was duly recorded that : |
| 8 | Pybus was duly sacked but retained as club coach in a refreshment-making capacity . |
| 9 | The wonder drug was duly acquired and miraculously did the trick . |
| 10 | Our joint submission to the National Council for Vocational Qualifications ( NVCQ ) was duly approved and work commenced swiftly to implement this new venture , which was seen as a positive and exciting contribution to the Government 's radical reform of vocational education . |
| 11 | Hannah was duly offered and accepted a place at Farnham . |
| 12 | With the help of co-operative Panamanians , it was duly seized and a provisional Panamanian government established , with an American warship in the background . |
| 13 | In Joliet , Illinois , a witness under hypnosis was asked to ‘ stop the video and zoom in ’ on the face of the criminal and he managed to give a detailed description of a man , who was duly arrested and charged . |
| 14 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 15 | The key target audience for the reports was overwhelmingly stated as being the company 's own employees . |
| 16 | Beveridge had presented his report in 1942 at a time when it was overwhelmingly agreed that there should be no return to the conditions of the 1930s . |
| 17 | His revenue was slowly sinking and his subjects had shown themselves resistant to demands for aid . |
| 18 | It was discreetly positioned and bore the letters ‘ NR ’ painted on with white paint : NR for ‘ Nature Reserve ’ . |
| 19 | The cabin was luxuriously furnished and immaculately tidy , a condition which Van Gelder very rapidly altered . |
| 20 | The model was diagrammatically represented as shown in figure 4.1 . |
| 21 | THE woman juror whose looks prompted a man to wolf-whistle at her in court yesterday said she was secretly flattered and took it as a compliment . |
| 22 | One of the aims of the review was to produce a formula which was empirically based as opposed to the original RAWP formula , which included standardised mortality ratio as a proxy for need on theoretical grounds . |
| 23 | The Prelude , which is , in fact , the nearest thing to the great philosophical poem which Coleridge hoped Wordsworth would produce , was mostly written while Coleridge was in Malta , and it is as an exposition of Wordsworth 's ideas that we must read it ; for Coleridge , as we shall see , had already begun to return to orthodox Christianity and in 1803 was shocked at Wordsworth 's irreverence : ‘ O dearest William ! |
| 24 | Japanese officials noticed that politics , not trade , was mostly discussed when Mr Delors visited Washington in April . |
| 25 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 26 | Her punk/kabuki make-up was professionally applied and striking ; her black short hairstyle was stylish and street chic . |
| 27 | My Hollywood A-frame was hermetically sealed and thermostatically controlled . |
| 28 | She did n't talk much about her mother , who was rather withdrawn and authoritarian and spent most of her time playing bridge or playing the piano . |
| 29 | But last week , I was informed , the point of my anecdote about the documentary Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe — in which the German film director fulfilled a promise to eat the aforementioned footwear if a friend of his raised the money to complete a long cherished project — was rather lost since ‘ shoe ’ appeared on the page twice as ‘ show ’ . |
| 30 | I was rather wondering if we might not arrange a meeting . |