Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 2 | We were marched out in a crocodile , just like schoolgirls — were n't allowed to go out two-by-two or in threes or fours , but all in a line so we would n't disturb the pedestrians . |
| 3 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |
| 4 | The objects were flown back in a UN cargo plane . |
| 5 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 6 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 7 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 8 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 9 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 10 | Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown . |
| 11 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 12 | They were picked up by a Kalafrana H.S.L. ( High Speed Launch ) and proved to be the crew of a Ju87 . |
| 13 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 14 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 15 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 16 | Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time . |
| 17 | The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners . |
| 18 | Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses . |
| 19 | Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life . |
| 20 | Official attempts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to reform and strengthen the police duties of headmen were carried out at a time when the overall influence of headmen was on the wane . |
| 21 | The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine . |
| 22 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 23 | The trials were carried out in a population with xerophthalmia rates that were very close to the threshold used by WHO to define a population as having a xerophthalmia problem of public health significance ( 1% ) ; previously reported studies were done in populations with substantially higher rates of xerophthalmia . |
| 24 | Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients . |
| 25 | In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories . |
| 26 | Clothes were pegged out on a line , nothing of his own . |
| 27 | Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead . |
| 28 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 29 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 30 | The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub . |