Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were quickly spotted by a police patrol who ushered them off the motorway and down the A41 slip road . |
| 2 | His narrow shoulders were habitually draped by a challis scarf , his hands adorned by two Russian wedding rings . |
| 3 | Re-released by Old Gold in 1988 , the record sold well but was only aimed at a collectors and oldie jukebox market . |
| 4 | Maarouf Saad , the leftist mayor of Sidon , was fatally wounded in a fishermen 's demonstration and in further fighting the Lebanese national army — largely commanded , of course , by Christians — came into conflict with Muslim gunmen and the more radical of the PLO 's Palestinian guerrilla groups . |
| 5 | For instance , Ritchie Blackmore was a very fast player , but it was always based on a blues thing , never on ‘ How many notes can I get in the scale ? ’ |
| 6 | Then I found a place that was clearly headlined as a singles " bar , and no one tried to keep me out Now I 'd read about these VD workshops in Scum and Miasma , both of which adopted a markedly high-handed line . |
| 7 | The BBC was forced to drop an independently produced film for Arena on lorry drivers when it emerged that it was partly funded by a hauliers ' association . |
| 8 | You 'd have thought modems would be quicker on the parallel port , but no ; the serial port was originally developed as a telecommunications device . |
| 9 | ‘ Last week a woman who lives near here was arrested for not paying her fine , and she was actually put in a police wagon headed for Mountjoy Jail in Dublin , ’ Mrs Knelle told me . |
| 10 | His work in the Sahara was recently included in a Sports Council exhibition that nearly never happened due to a last-minute decision by sponsors Kodak to pull out half of their backing money , which was needed for other photographic projects . |