Example sentences of "was [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 2 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 3 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 4 | Wilde , depicted as the leader of the aesthetic movement , with its unnatural taste for the sensual and the erotic , was pilloried in court as a foreign parasite . |
| 5 | Bobby Robson was pilloried in exactly the same fashion then promptly hailed as a conquering hero when his team came within a penalty shoot-out of reaching the World Cup final in 1990 . |
| 6 | The church was reconsecrated in the presence of HM the Queen in October 1958 as the Central Church of The RAF . |
| 7 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |
| 8 | It was furnished in a style which was new to the tall boy . |
| 9 | A new HNC in Golf Course Management was validated in the summer of 1992 , and will be offered by four colleges in session 1993–94 . |
| 10 | This methof was effective at producing complete carbohydrate hydrolysis within two hours and was validated in preliminary experiments against an enzymatic method . |
| 11 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 12 | One of the boarders was a clergyman , the Reverend Baron from Cheshire , and he , finding her at every turn with the Bible open , praised her devotion , which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks . |
| 13 | She was used to her old mistress 's pallor , to the skeleton thinness , to the heavy , bruised-looking eyes but walking into her bedroom on the beautiful summer 's morning and looking towards the bed she was stopped in her progress and forced to control the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips . |
| 14 | According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career . |
| 15 | This resulted in a protest on the inspection day , when the official car was stopped in Church Street by two cycles stuck in the offending rails . |
| 16 | Peter Turner , a computer installation manager from Lower Earley , near Reading , Berks , was stopped in his white Astra . |
| 17 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 18 | Prosecuting , Gareth Davies said Harbison had excess alcohol in his breath when he was stopped in his car by police on the A45 between Barrow and Bury St Edmunds . |
| 19 | Professor Martin Harris , who started his job at Manchester University last month , was stopped in the city 's red light district , police said . |
| 20 | But on the Stock Exchange the shares boom was stopped in its tracks after the Bank of England warned there would be no immediate cut . |
| 21 | Graham , 33 , was stopped in nine rounds on Wednesday by Bradford 's unrated Frank Grant . |
| 22 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 23 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 24 | The train was stopped in plenty of time and a few VIP and press party on board were even aware of the drama outside . |
| 25 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 26 | Museums will have the first pick of a huge art mountain which has been allowed to accumulate over the years as the result of an income support scheme for artists which was stopped in 1984 . |
| 27 | Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify . |
| 28 | When whaling was stopped in the Azores he created a museum to display the thousand of pieces he had collected since a boy . |
| 29 | Jack himself was stopped in the street by a man who wanted to change two $50 bills at black market rate . |
| 30 | Her assailant 's fist was stopped in mid-air . |