Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee appointed to enquire into the copper trade and mining ( 1799 ) , said in their report that copper bolts had never been considered strong enough , and that the practice of copper bottoming was stopped by about 1750 , as a result of the losses , and the fact that at one time a third of the navy was in dock under repair . |
| 2 | Other ‘ schoolboys ’ included Jeremy Bulloch , who was to carve out a successful acting career , and Christopher Beeny who had already made an impression as a child actor in The Grove Family TV serial and later appeared in programmes such as Upstairs , Downstairs , The Rag Trade and In Loving Memory . |
| 3 | And when Zbo explained that Modi was coughing up blood they chased him away . |
| 4 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 5 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 6 | ‘ And what the hell were ye doin' when all this was goin' on ? ’ he demanded harshly . |
| 7 | The police raided the Crown in Dock'ead an' stopped the boxin' that was goin' on there , an' they nicked a lot o' street bookies who was there at the time . |
| 8 | … as I was goin' over , te' Cork and Kerry mountains … |
| 9 | I do n't think Conrad was latching on properly , but I must admit breastfeeding did confuse me . |
| 10 | Agriculture had been in steady decline since the 1870s , and after a brief post-war boom was to sink back into it again in the 1930s . |
| 11 | Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words . |
| 12 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 13 | Abruptly the dream finished and she was plunged back into reality . |
| 14 | Her face was plunged back into shadow . |
| 15 | And before I could resolve the problem I was struggling up in bed , in the pitch blackness , reaching for the shrilling telephone . |
| 16 | She was struggling up , bent under a heavy sack . |
| 17 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 18 | Powell felt both clubs were impetuous buys which Virgin could ill-afford at a time when it was struggling out of recession . |
| 19 | She jumped out and ran the few feet to where a man was struggling out of his jeep , which had tipped onto one side with the two left wheels suspended above the open gully . |
| 20 | Over the public address he could hear the voice of Bill Taylor saying , as he was struggling in : ‘ This could be a new world record . ’ |
| 21 | Only on the final climb of Sally Gap did he clinch victory as his rival , Gary Baker , was struggling back from two punctures . |
| 22 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 23 | Uncle Albert was struggling down the garden path carrying a heavy shopping bag . |
| 24 | The aeroplane — quite a small one — was circling round far overhead . |
| 25 | I saw a gadget the other day that 's two , two plastic circles with handles on , mm , I think I paid about seven pounds and this was to gather up leaves and big lot of |
| 26 | The hole through which the survivors of B Shift had left the Bridge was knitting back together like cloth , the weave forming as the bulk of the mist reduced . |
| 27 | If he did , it was lopped off . |
| 28 | A tent of dyed homespun was erected out in front , while some caterers got busy preparing Punjabi specialities over a clay oven at the back of the house . |
| 29 | Any lingering dreams died and she was propelled back into her normal character speedily . |
| 30 | The snow was easing up and last-minute shoppers were everywhere . |