Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said whole fields were ripped up into the air ! |
| 2 | ‘ The anti-aircraft rockets I fired were propelled up to a height of 1,000 yards . |
| 3 | Extraordinary as the two operations were , they were propelled along by the belief of many players — both principals and walkers-on — — that the ends were just . |
| 4 | Or maybe a process of natural selection had winnowed out the overworked and discontented , the theoretical and jaded and left the few who were propelled back to the school by the same affection , curiosity and remembered enthusiasm that had drawn us . |
| 5 | With a heavy heart , Robert followed her towards the smooth , mysterious features of the house , whose windows , on this side , he could now see , were blacked out from the inside . |
| 6 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 7 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 8 | These large abscesses were pointed out by the farm manager to Mrs Brough , who photographed them . |
| 9 | Remarkably , they were given back by the owner without payment . |
| 10 | Numerous prizes , generously donated by sponsors , were given out at the end of the day . |
| 11 | The mangled remains of a bicycle were sticking out of the windscreen of the lower car . |
| 12 | Here and there lumps of metal were sticking out of the masonry . |
| 13 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 14 | When I 'd called in at Sunil 's place after Prentice had driven off , Nassim was on the landing yelling orders to the builders who were crashing around in the bathroom . |
| 15 | Off you go , ’ and I gathered we were to go back to the beginning and start again . |
| 16 | When process of care measures were reanalysed after excluding the 21 patients who were referred back to the hospital clinic other than through the prompting system , all process of care measures in table IV remained more frequent in the prompted subgroup ( n=65 prompted subjects ) . |
| 17 | I was pretty odd for Blackheath but not in comparison with the people who were hanging out at the It office . |
| 18 | They were broken up on the spot and only the saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 19 | The demonstrations were broken up by the security forces and according to unsubstantiated BPP sources some 300 people were killed during the security operation . |
| 20 | Humphrey Maud presented his diplomatic credentials to Menem on July 18 , becoming the first United Kingdom ambassador to Argentina since diplomatic relations were broken off at the time of the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands war of 1982 . |
| 21 | But negotiations were broken off by the government on 3 May once the compositors at the Daily Mail refused to set the type for an editorial on ‘ For King and Country ’ . |
| 22 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 23 | To make the car secure , railway sleepers were built into the cliff edge and joints were welded on to the bottom of the vehicle , acting as hinges . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't mention him again ! ’ he said thickly , and a moment later they were stepping out into the sunlight at the Royal Hong Kong Cricket Club , the colonial sanctuary of Hong Kong Island with its Tudor pavilion , sweeping green lawns and the Union Jack flying against a halcyon blue sky . |
| 27 | The pictures , together with the museum staff and the two guards accompanying them , were turfed off from the train because the guards lacked permits to carry weapons on Latvian territory . |
| 28 | She shrugged ruefully , and ten minutes later they were speeding out of the village . |
| 29 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 30 | Well there were two that were bandied about as a cost of national Of social chapter in this department . |