Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 2 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 3 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 4 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 5 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 6 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 7 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 8 | Jehana 's mare was stopped at the far end of it , and Alexei was at her side . |
| 9 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 10 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 11 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 12 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 13 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 14 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 15 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 16 | A short time later , on the other side of Hereford , a motorist was stopped by a white car with a blue light on top . |
| 17 | The following morning the convoy was stopped by a one-person LAG picket . |
| 18 | That training ( and the service that should have started with the Class 317 units at the beginning of the 1982 timetable ) was stopped by an industrial dispute about bonus payments for driver-only operation . |
| 19 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 20 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |
| 21 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 22 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 23 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 24 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |
| 25 | The name St Petersburg had been given to the city by Peter the Great in 1703 ; in 1914 it was amended to the Russified form Petrograd , and in 1924 it was renamed in honour of Lenin after his death . |
| 26 | The Constitution of Polynesia was amended by the French Parliament with effect from July 1990 to increase the powers of the President of the territorial government and those of the Territorial Assembly , and to establish five consultative local councils composed of elected territorial and municipal representatives . |
| 27 | At the same time Article 130 of the Constitution , recognizing the Roman Catholic Church and lifting restraints on the clergy after more than 130 years , was amended after a three-week debate . |
| 28 | The feudal institutions of the ancien régime began to be dismantled under the bureaucratic reforms of the eighteenth century Carlist monarchy , and the process was hastened by the Napoleonic invasion , rather than by the pressure of new economic interests and the emergence of commercial agriculture . |
| 29 | Soviet specialists believed that the shift towards non-alignment in Latin America was hastened by the political situation in the region after the Falklands War which resulted in ‘ an open crisis of the inter-American system , including its military-political mechanism ’ . |
| 30 | Sometime in the not-so-distant geological past , perhaps as little as half a million years ago , it was joined to the great land mass to the north . |