Example sentences of "was [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The place was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters of Pity were in business . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The architect 's plans for the changes made in nineteen hundred and ten when the Priory was reconsecrated Roman Catholic and the Little Sisters took over . ’ |
| 3 | When , in 1986 , I collected a new Nissan car that a sponsor had bought for me , I was stopped four times in one day because the car was new and , as I had been told frequently enough by the police when I worked on Ealing Community Relations Council , black men ca n't afford new cars . |
| 4 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 5 | Traffic behind and on the opposite carriageway was stopped ready for the police to take control . |
| 6 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 7 | I was stopped short by torchlight in my face . |
| 8 | On a visit to New York that summer I was stopped short by an elaborate poster on 47th Street welcoming all to Danny 's Den for drinks and food , and to see the appearance of ‘ the one and only Miss Ella Shields ( from London , England ) , the Original Burlington Bertie ’ . |
| 9 | After just eight minutes a strong drive by centre Pete Manning was stopped short of the line but the ball was quickly moved for scrum-half Watts to score . |
| 10 | It was cut low across the top and high above the thighs , and for a moment Lucy was stopped short by the thought that Jesus , it looked hell to wear , but would n't it just kill 'em on the disco floor back home ? |
| 11 | Chambers added a penalty goal for Banbridge after 15 minutes but Bangor were now well in control and Jeffrey McMaster almost got his name on the score sheet following a run down the left wing but he was stopped short and hooker Darryl Flanagan was up quickly for the try which Strutt converted . |
| 12 | Until the Partnership Act was amended some 25years ago , the maximum number in a partnership was limited to 20 . |
| 13 | For example the western margin of southern Africa has a relatively narrow continental shelf and a well-developed marginal upwarp , whereas the opposing margin of the eastern coast of southern South America to which it was joined prior to the break-up of Gondwana has a very broad continental shelf and no significant marginal upwarp . |
| 14 | On the final lap , Mark Smyth ( O'Rourkes Coal ) opened a small gap just before the climb and he was joined first by Graham , then Alastair Martin ( Ardsike the Bike ) and Gerald Irvine ( Toyota North Down ) with Cormac McCann ( Phoenix ) the last to make a successful effort to bridge 21 the gap . |
| 15 | He was joined last week by a handful of defeated Liberal Democrats including Nicol Stephen , who won Kincardine and Deesside the same night Dr Kumar won Langbaurgh November 7 . |
| 16 | There was puke all the way round . |
| 17 | Denis noticed that his uncle , sitting about three seats ahead of him was coughing more than usual , and glaring openly at the briars either side of him . |
| 18 | The skraggin' o' the city was goin' good , from his point-a-view . |
| 19 | Ten years later Richard was farming 12 acres in Allerthorpe and his family had grown to seven children ; his parents were now living alone on another smallholding of 14 acres . |
| 20 | In the 1680s , when Colbert de Croissy was preaching honourable behaviour to his son , the theft or attempted theft of despatches was still a commonplace of diplomacy . |
| 21 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 22 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 23 | Sharpe knew he was seeing much more than a cavalry raid , though he was not certain whether this was the real invasion . |
| 24 | That there were clues put in here and there that things were not right , and that Jane was seeing all ? |
| 25 | He was seeing small things with such clarity now . |
| 26 | At the height of the troubles the hospital was seeing 100 cases of major trauma a day . |
| 27 | Dr Newman was seeing five or six people each surgery with the same symptoms , and ‘ the pharmacist reported a flood of people asking for remedies ’ . |
| 28 | Against that there 'll be seventeen percent of this population was seeing home-helps , five percent was seeing social workers . |
| 29 | Yeah , I know , I did n't think she se , she did n't realise that you know that she was seeing this |
| 30 | Anyhow … the feeling in the water continued to indicate the away win , and the clincher ( for me ) was seeing 2 magpies sitting on a street light on the way . |