Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Listen lawman , I wuz brought up on the streets . |
| 2 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 3 | Oh yes we the boys were taught along with the girls , yes we were , we were all on , just in the one room . |
| 4 | Often these were the starting points of big demonstrations which were broken up by the police . |
| 5 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 6 | The lifters were tested three weeks ago and were booted out of the Olympics for taking Clenbuterol . |
| 7 | In medieval times well-documented court activities were carried out at the caputs already discussed . |
| 8 | The great majority of thefts were carried out in the villages . |
| 9 | Our case studies of casual working were carried out in the hotels and catering industry where a large proportion of the casual labour force is to be found . |
| 10 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 11 | It was designed as a more effective replacement for the Police Complaints Board ( PCB ) which the public appeared to have lost faith in due to the fact that few complaints were ever substantiated , and that all investigations were carried out by the police themselves . |
| 12 | There was no limitation on the period of service overseas that a man could agree to undertake , and the crown was relieved of the burden of administration : recruiting , mustering and paying the troops were carried out by the officials of the magnates who made the contracts . |
| 13 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 14 | Tens of thousands were reported back on the streets in Timisoara yesterday , defying a state of emergency , a curfew , and a ban on assembly of more than five persons imposed on the region . |
| 15 | Girls were dropped off at the ends of the roads where they lived , motor-cycles were pushed into front gardens and covered with PVC sheeting . |
| 16 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 17 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |
| 18 | The new social movements of the 1970s and the 1980s emerged outside the formal party structures precisely because of the way in which the parties of the Left , which should have articulated new emancipatory concerns , were caught up in the compromises of the 1940s . |
| 19 | The day was cold , with flurries of snow and people were muffled up to the eyes . |
| 20 | For some good reason no Hurricanes were available and orders were telephoned through for the Fulmars to get airborne and gain altitude over Hal Far . |
| 21 | But even more ambitious filmmakers like Samuelson and Hepworth were pushed out by the difficulties involved in making film production profitable . |
| 22 | Mr Marland says the safe and lucrative deals were creamed off by the syndicates , and the risky ones left for the unsuspecting to pick up . |
| 23 | So inflexible was this masterplan that when New Scientist attempted to introduce someone who knew nothing about computers to the machine ( it is claimed to be very easy to use ) we were turned down on the grounds that ‘ this would upset the timetable ’ . |
| 24 | Invitations were turned down on the grounds that ‘ we would only have to ask them back ’ . |
| 25 | The servants of Chaos were hunted down in the forests , and many wild and long-abandoned lands were re-settled . |
| 26 | We complained to Malcolm , told him we were fed up with the mice and we did n't have enough money to eat properly . |
| 27 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 28 | I think people were fed up with the strikes Larry . |
| 29 | Big stresses were built up near the glue-lines ; if the glue was in bad condition it broke ; if not , the wood failed near the glue . |
| 30 | After 1800 the railways increased this trade and docks were built out of the mudflats along the waterfront of the Humber itself . |