Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv prt] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They left things to us and we were rushing along on a supercharged train with no brakes . ’ |
| 2 | The government was lavishing money on roads instead of railways and the developers were cashing in on a projected ‘ up-grading ’ of the existing A road to a motorway , thus bringing Suffolk into the commuter zone . |
| 3 | The patients , still dead , were delivered out on a stretcher-like apparatus . |
| 4 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 5 | We were kept in on a strict curfew and given meagre amounts of pocket money each week , which was just enough to buy food and travel to the DHSS office . |
| 6 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 7 | In addition , a time series test was carried out on a random sample of 254 of these issues . |
| 8 | Private Roger Morrison 's body was washed up on a Morroccan beach 10 days ago after his speedboat had been fired on by local police . |
| 9 | She knew that he had tried to give her the impression that he was going off on a promiscuous adventure and expected this to arouse in her both admiration and jealousy , but as Lydia 's misdemeanours were more of the spirit than of the flesh she found promiscuity not merely sinful but foolish and disgusting . |
| 10 | Cathy when I was in hospital in er a physiotherapy bit , where they , where they brought children in , erm there was this little girl and like she was riding round on a little bike , you know , so she 's quite , quite old and she had er , in , in brace , but her legs were like out at the side and her feet were pointing down and they 're pointing up , I 'm just a bit confused . |
| 11 | The monastery was borne along on a buoyant prosperity which , while it may have contributed to the dissatisfactions and distractions felt by the few , drew most of its members together in a sense of their importance and independence , and hastened the disappearance of earlier divisions . |
| 12 | Already as a young man of twenty-four he had pressed Eliot 's claims upon his seniors , John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson , in the circle of the Nashville ‘ fugitives ’ ; and this initially provincial dispute was played out on a national stage as early as 1923 when , in the New York Evening Post Literary Review , Ransom , with the courtly composure that was to be his hallmark , tried to promote Robert Graves before Eliot , only to be taken to task in the same columns by his younger associate . |
| 13 | ‘ You see , Lewis , ’ began Morse , as the two strolled back to the front of the property , ‘ Kemp had grown tired of Sheila Williams and was starting out on a new conquest — the delectable Lucy Downes . |
| 14 | The Tournament arena was laid out on a flat piece of land in a loop of the Lugton Water , a few hundred yards east of the castle . |
| 15 | McIlvanney was born in 1934 , and was brought up on a public housing estate in Kilmarnock , Ayrshire , in what he himself calls ‘ a left-wing family ’ . |
| 16 | Then a motorcyclist was brought in on a blue light , a dispatch rider who had been burning along the Norwich road and hit a patch of oil . |
| 17 | Thus the composition was blocked in on a warm basis , over which he would lay a series of glazes . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , a party from the castle across the Forth , they gathered it up and it was taken back on a royal barge . ’ |
| 19 | Brian began to complain of muscle pains and was put back on a low dose papaveretum infusion ( 2–4mg/hr ) . |
| 20 | It was n't until she was put back on a different oral antibiotic — these work directly on the inflamed cells in the spots — that she started to notice a change . |