Example sentences of "[adj] was [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 2 | Even as she switched off her light , there came a low sibilant whistling ; this was followed by something between a gargle and a hiccup . |
| 3 | This was sent to them with an information leaflet . |
| 4 | En route we fried and ate the well tenderised cod — this was filmed with plenty of zizzle track — and I drank to the loss of another illusion in the Scotch that will never be seen in Saudi Arabia . |
| 5 | Before the war , foods such as butter and cheese were given two layers of wrappers by the counter hand , but this was reduced to one under the restrictions . |
| 6 | Note was also taken , if regretfully , of the questionable conduct of our Legal Adviser de Palfrey — I even got my de back * — who had failed to justify his use of the Home Secretary 's delegated authority in the full knowledge that this was required of him by the secretly agreed Procedures Governing the Service 's Activities as Amended by etcetera , and in accordance with paragraph something of a deniable Home Office protocol . |
| 7 | This was drummed into us at all times by management . |
| 8 | He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum . |
| 9 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 10 | Again this was reported to you at the last meeting of this Committee . |
| 11 | The move from the international and political to the insular and personal was interrupted by something of a lull in the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | Italian International was introduced to us by our Italian office . |
| 13 | The self-control she exercised when awake was abandoned by her in sleep , her body breaking loose to admit her confusion . |
| 14 | Sprawled over them were two more eunuchs ; one was staring at herself in a mirror , applying lipstick , the other was combing her hair . |
| 15 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 16 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 17 | Rule A five was brought to us by the amalgamation of the boilermakers , who themselves have tried to get rid of this bloody rule . |
| 18 | The Purcell Quartet 's second disc of Corelli trio sonatas from Opp. 1 and 2 ( the first was reviewed by me in 6/91 ) challenges our comfortable generalizations about these works . |
| 19 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 20 | Mike Junior was standing beside her in a Giants sweatshirt , a football tucked under his arm . |
| 21 | that was sent to me by the the people who want the stuff . |
| 22 | None the less in 1329 he did simple homage ( all that was asked of him for the moment ) at Amiens , following this up with liege homage in 1331 . |
| 23 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 24 | Brin Weare still has the silk escape map of Europe that was issued to him in April 1944 . |
| 25 | Brin Weare still has the silk escape map of Europe that was issued to him in April 1944 . |
| 26 | In November 1294 a tenth was demanded of them in the shires , a sixth in the boroughs ; in December 1295 an eleventh and a seventh were sought ; a year later , in December 1296 , a twelfth and an eighth ; in July 1297 an eighth and a fifth , although this grant was not in fact raised . |