Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was flung into a police van , and Russell was also dragged in . |
| 2 | I was kept in a chemicals factory for a few weeks , but could maintain my running on a makeshift path around the camp . |
| 3 | ‘ They knew I was a sniffer but I was put on a YTS placement to learn to be a carpet fitter . |
| 4 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 5 | It means that if you are placed on a YTS programme through Compact , you have a real job . |
| 6 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 7 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 8 | She was dressed as a munitions worker , and when he switched on the light her hair had blazed under the dim bulb . |
| 9 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 10 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 11 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 12 | From then one we are taken through a Druids ' Grove to consider swords , war trumpets , and the bronze shield cover discovered in the River Witham in Lincolnshire and dates from the second century BC . |
| 13 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 14 | It seems that this perception is a common one amongst black kids , whether they are headed for a sports career or not . |
| 15 | They are kept in a 36″ × 15″ × 12″ community tank containing a total of 25 fish , including Mollies , Albino Sharks and an Angelfish . |
| 16 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 17 | They were seized in a police raid on his home . |
| 18 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 19 | Well we had the parks to look after , we had the baths , the public baths and the playing fields to er they were administered through a parks superintendent . |
| 20 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 21 | Dr David Abramovich , a consultant gynaecologist working closely with the TSSIS , says : ‘ It is caused by a bacteria which is commonly found on the skin , or in the nose , armpit , groin or vagina of about one third of the population without causing any harmful effect . |
| 22 | But an RUC spokesman warned : ‘ The motorist who is tempted to buy one of these will be discovered at some stage , whether it is presented at a police station in relation to an accident or submitted by a new owner to an MOT centre for a test . ’ |
| 23 | It is housed in a 36″ bare aquarium with Discus and Corydoras caudimaculatus and concolor . |
| 24 | It is housed in a 48″ aquarium along with some Keyhole Cichlids ( Aquidens marooni ) , some Rineloricaria lanceloata and an assortment of Corydoras . |
| 25 | When barley is harvested it is taken to a maltings where the grains are soaked in water to encourage germination . |
| 26 | Unfortunately he is stopped by a police boat with Compeyson on board . |
| 27 | He is housed in a 42″ aquarium along with some Leporinus fasciatus and Corydoras reticulatus , latus and sodalis , it pays no attention to any of its tank mates . |
| 28 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 29 | But it was converted to a goods station and reopened in 1881 . |
| 30 | It was described in a TReeS pamphlet as ‘ a project set up by Madre de Dios 's indigenous people which aims to combine the best of modern and traditional approaches to health-care , in order to maintain acceptable standards of health throughout the region 's native forest communities ’ . |