Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life . |
| 2 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 3 | This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt . |
| 4 | The $2,000 prize was set up by a patrons ' organization of the National Museum of American Art in honour of Charles C. Eldredge , former director of the museum . |
| 5 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 6 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |