Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becky was put out in any case because her mother had not appeared . |
| 2 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |
| 3 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 4 | I think it 's understandable if Trevor was put out by this favoured treatment Sinatra got . |
| 5 | The domination of Bern was thrown off without much trouble , a tree of liberty was planted in the Graben ( Square ) in the first flush of freedom , and in 1798 , Aarau became not only the capital of the canton of Aargau , but the seat of the newly proclaimed Helvetian republic . |
| 6 | But Ratners was held back by another heavy interest bill and the costs of reorganising the group . |
| 7 | Bright was turned down on both counts by Field , whose principal consideration was the weather . |
| 8 | But Marion was staring down into some bleak abyss . |
| 9 | But I thought that er with coming off that , Malcolm was going on to that . |
| 10 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 11 | I thought Dashwood was going out of this here Bill . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose I read too many thrillers but in the end I 'd convinced myself you 'd got too tough and killed somebody and George was mixed up in that ! ’ |
| 13 | Much of central Cheltenham was built out of this deep bed of fine-grained Oolitic limestone . |
| 14 | In 1962 ELDO was set up on this basis — with the L standing for launcher . |
| 15 | But Joan was harking back to that awful day . |
| 16 | The Liverpool manager was seething with rage after his defender David Burrows was carried off in this Coca-Cola Cup tie with a severe knee injury that will keep him out for at least three months . |
| 17 | The son of a stockbroker and part of a large and easy-going family , James was brought up with more options than most . |
| 18 | Russell was taken up in this for a time , he even wrote wonderful piece on the foundations of geometry couched in erm a sort of vaguely dialectical form , which in later life he erm pronounced as being complete rubbish . |
| 19 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |