Examples of using Were literally in English and their translations into Russian
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So these guys were literally trapped inside their bodies.
In 1970 the US population was 179 million,so they were literally one in a million.
So they were literally I would say about three feet apart from each other.
FLEG II signature publications were in high demand and were literally swept out on the first day.
The apostles were literally stunned; they were amazed and horrified.
We could call this evening idyllic,if not for the fact that two neighbouring hills were literally on fire.
The apostles and disciples were literally stunned by what they saw.
Then you will realize how much your levels had previously been closed down, so that you were literally in the dark.
In March 1995, some 20,000 people in Muvimbi commune were literally taken hostage and cut off from the outside world.
These songs were literally buried in a box of tapes for more than 10 years and were accidentally unearthed by our sound engineer Greg Reely.
Some were angry, some were disappointed, and some were literally ready to throw in the towel, as we have learned to say.
In a culture that retained the blood-feud as its primary means of law enforcement until well into this century such codes were literally matters of life and death.
For decades, these reels were literally large metal hoops, but now that slot machines are powered by computers, they're more often just images on a video screen.
During the military conflict over Nagorno Karabagh, the latter were literally"fished out" for exchange with Azeri prisoners of war.
From Friday until Sunday, the stores, situated in large shopping centres, were full of customers and,in the afternoon hours, were literally taken by storm.
The whole process went on for quite some time, and then towards the end, it was down to me andone other guy, and we were literally waiting for the word from Steven Spielberg‘cause he had to watch the two audition tapes and give the okay.
Man's primordial ancestors were literally the slime and ooze of the ocean bed in the sluggish and warm-water bays and lagoons of the vast shore lines of the ancient inland seas, those very waters in which the Life Carriers established the three independent life implantations on Urantia.
By way of contrast, internationally recruited staff were rapidly evacuated andlocally recruited staff were literally abandoned to their fate.
The evidence of the criminal attitude of OSCE towards South Ossetia is the fact that all its employees who sympathized with South Ossetia, were subjected to pressure, and some of its fair employees, who after the war in 2008 dared to tell the truth, underwent terrible prosecutions,intimidations and persecution and were literally expelled from this organization.
Notwithstanding they had many times heard the Master say that“in the kingdom of heaven there is neither rich nor poor, free nor bond, male norfemale, all are equally the sons and daughters of God,” they were literally stunned when he proposed formally to commission these ten women as religious teachers and even to permit their traveling about with them.
But the culmination of Russian-South Ossetian relations was the heroic liberation mission of the Russian Army in August 2008, when the people of South Ossetia, doomed to the complete destruction by the Georgian strategic military plan"Clean Field",at the cost of the incredible efforts of the Russian soldier were literally ripped from the ruthless paws of Georgian aggressors and invaders.
By midday on 8 August, Georgian forces had taken partial control of the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, andof eight South Ossetian villages that were literally wiped from the face of the earth.
It was literally a pot.
Loch Ness, lake Champlain there are literally hundreds of eyewitness accounts, but here, almost nothing.
It was literally a great match of fifty teams from Europe and Russia.
It was literally sliced in half.
It was literally nearly as big as me.
And, uh, I was literally the… the best I could do for her.
It was literally the worst morning of my life.
He was literally crushed.