Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the next thing he know he remembers he 's hanging upside down with a half feet around his the chain had slipped 't was round his ankle and he was hanging upside down in the dark twenty feet from the ground . |
| 2 | This was spelling things out with a vengeance . |
| 3 | Detectives say they have no idea what was stolen because the million-pound villa in a suburb of Rome was turned upside down in the Boxing Day burglary . |
| 4 | Garvey was holding Izzie out over the lower trapdoor , one arm round her waist and the other across her throat . |
| 5 | A massive blow , delivered at maximum speed , was to knock France out of the war in the first six weeks ; then , using Germany 's efficient interior rail system , the victorious troops were to be rushed east to destroy the Tsar 's armies before Russia 's cumbersome mobilization could be completed . |
| 6 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 7 | On looking around he was staring at us , no doubt wondering what I was doing marching along with the French Commandos . |
| 8 | But this time , what Frank and Tod did was to fight Carmichael out in the territory . |
| 9 | Mama was taking cookies out of the oven . |
| 10 | She had disappeared into one of the bedrooms and was dragging clothes out of the drawers of a chest . |
| 11 | Mark Skinner and Paul Higham , both 23 , were airlifted to Lismore Hospital with multiple injuries after their vehicle was hit head on by a runaway car in northern New South Wales . |
| 12 | Sharon Griffiths , who was fifteen , died instantly when this Datsun Cherry driven by her sister Sandra was hit head on by a stolen car . |
| 13 | But the intention of the rebels was to bundle Baldwin out of the leadership before opinions had time to come to terms with the election results . |
| 14 | He appeared to be airborne , but he was watching Stephen out of the corner of his eye . |
| 15 | She was watching Edward out of the corner of her eye . |
| 16 | In view of what you , Mr. Speaker , have had to say about the Consolidated Fund Bill , can you give some assurance that , if this matter about Maxwell and him laundering money is raised , you will ensure that people such as Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield will be given special tickets to sit in the Gallery so that they can hear the debate and so that they can draw the attention of various channels to the fact that perhaps Mr. Lightman should investigate the missing Maxwell millions , and perhaps we can find out whether Roger Windsor , Mr. Maxwell 's nark , was paid £50,000 out of the Daily Mirror 's missing millions . |