Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 2 | She raised the barrel skywards , and was tumbled over by a breaking wave . |
| 3 | Because of his knowledge of languages Blake was recommended for a commission and was sent on to an officers ' training course at HMS King Alfred which in the spring of 1944 he passed and was appointed a sub-lieutenant in the RNVR . |
| 4 | Apparently the club lost its license and was shut down after a series of lawsuits stemming from car accidents involving drunk punters — and under American law , bar staff who serve drunk drivers are liable to get hauled up in front of the local beak of those people are later involved in accidents . |
| 5 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 6 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 7 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 8 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |
| 9 | The initial draft received many letters of comment from both camps and was followed up with a public debate in Glasgow . |
| 10 | She had gained the opposite bank and was poking about in a great drifting mass of torn grass and brushwood . |
| 11 | ‘ You see , Lewis , ’ began Morse , as the two strolled back to the front of the property , ‘ Kemp had grown tired of Sheila Williams and was starting out on a new conquest — the delectable Lucy Downes . |
| 12 | ‘ In my youth ’ , says Baxter , ‘ I was quickly past my fundamentals and was running up into a multitude of controversies , and greatly delighted with metaphysical and scholastic writings . ’ |
| 13 | The established church believed teetotalism was taking the place of God and was carried out in an un-Christian spirit . |
| 14 | Bodin 's pass back was under-hit , Duffield and Gittens seized on it and , while Gittins did what Duffield was intending , sliding the ball under the advancing Digby , Duffield stayed down and was carried off with a broken leg . |
| 15 | He landed about 300 yards from a destroyer and was picked up with a leg broken in four places and a broken arm . |
| 16 | The Range Rover came into Belfast and was picked up by an army escort of two personnel-carriers on the outskirts . |
| 17 | But it 's not for sale at any price — it 's more than a hundred years old , and was snapped up for a thousand pounds at auction . |
| 18 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 19 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 20 | It had been popularized in lesbian feminist circles by the American writer , Adrienne Rich , and was taken up as a way of understanding the common ground between the very different oppressions experienced by lesbians and gay men of different classes , different ages , different races , etc . |
| 21 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 22 | Habré arranged elections and was sworn in for a further seven-year presidential term on Dec. 22 , 1989 , but was overthrown on Dec , 1 , 1990 , by rebel forces from the east under the leadership of his one-time military commander Idriss Déby , leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 23 | McIlvanney was born in 1934 , and was brought up on a public housing estate in Kilmarnock , Ayrshire , in what he himself calls ‘ a left-wing family ’ . |
| 24 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 25 | A nerve jiggled at the corner of Meredith 's mouth because she was beginning to piece small bits of information together and was coming up with a heap of worries . |
| 26 | I drove down the afternoon before and was put up in a small hotel near the studios . |
| 27 | Brian began to complain of muscle pains and was put back on a low dose papaveretum infusion ( 2–4mg/hr ) . |
| 28 | This was not altruism on the part of the brewers , but was born out of a realisation that preserving the best of their heritage could make them money . |
| 29 | The top weight , Golden Friend , made a promising seasonal debut when beating The Thinker at Haydock in November but was pulled up on a return visit to the course when Baies beat The Thinker narrowly . |
| 30 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |