Example sentences of "was [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another Bf109 was claimed shot down during this particular raid by Flt.Lt . |
| 2 | Two elderly men were crouched over a naked girl who was strapped face down to some form of wooden rack . |
| 3 | ‘ You know I would if I 'd thought it was going to turn out like this ! |
| 4 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |
| 5 | Jason Prior was going to come out of this shining like a knight in armour while she would be condemned to eternal darkness , everyone believing it was her fault . |
| 6 | AT1 : ‘ I did wonder what was going to come out of this review . ’ |
| 7 | Does he not also accept that much of his programme was going to come about in any event , that he has deliberately delayed the urban programme announcement , that six of our valleys are still not designated areas under the Act and that a proper revitalisation of the valleys would require massive and genuinely new investment spread over at least eight years , not advertising hype spread over three ? |
| 8 | Well I 'm freer to do , I mean I , I got , I wanted to be free because I was getting tied up with that and I was getting tied up with persons , but not agreeing everything |
| 9 | We were puttering up river late in the afternoon and the sun was beginning to go down over these huge trees and a flight of big birds , herons or something , were taking off like pink seaplanes as someone said and the second assistant suddenly stood up and yelled out This is paradise , this is fucking paradise . |
| 10 | But I now felt the time was coming to move on to another department . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , it started again while I was running to get out of that place . |
| 12 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
| 13 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 14 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 15 | She was trying to get out of that ! |