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Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles .
8	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 .
9	Twenty-five days later three survivors , all wounded , were picked up from a raft and taken to Capetown .
10	All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers .
11	They were picked up by a Kalafrana H.S.L. ( High Speed Launch ) and proved to be the crew of a Ju87 .
12	The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border .
13	His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations .
14	Then we were picked up in a BBC limo to go and review the papers on Breakfast Time .
15	The winning department was given two tea sets and the names of the employees were picked out of a hat to find the winners .
16	Whippings in Sri Lanka were carried out with a cat-o-nine-tails and flayed the back of the prisoner , scarring him for life .
17	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 .
18	The Labour MP for Jarrow said investigations into alleged abuse of the postal system were carried out as a matter of routine .
19	The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments .
20	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 .
21	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 .
22	Clothes were pegged out on a line , nothing of his own .
23	Evenwood were pegged back by a Darren Rawlston goal at home to Billingham Town after Sean Monaghan had put them ahead .
24	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 .
25	The move followed stone-throwing by dozens of people after two youths disputed the fare when they were dropped off at a pub .
26	Then we were lifted down through a trap door and laid on a mattress .
27	Following the end of cloth-making , the mill buildings were let out to a number of tenants , providing some employment .
28	Back at camp , with Ansell 's note of explanation , they were let off with a caution .
29	Aziz and Hasan were caught up in a maze of stout shoes , Sherley 's extendable dog-leads and sniffing , quivering red setters , corgis , Jack Russells , Old English Sheepdogs and pugs .
30	I did n't reply because all at once we were caught up in a crush of people who seemed to erupt from nowhere , running , pushing against each other .