Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew she 'd better be told , otherwise she 'd get a bonnie fright when she was stopped at the paydesk and accused of shoplifting . |
| 2 | According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career . |
| 3 | The campaign , which last year was joined by the Institute and numbers only five accountancy firms among its members , aims to promote cultural change in organisations . |
| 4 | The planning process has been delayed and made more expensive by the need for constant negotiations between authorities responsible for two separate parts of a process which was intended in the Town and County Planning Acts of 1968 and 1971 to be fully integrated . |
| 5 | It is on a much smaller scale than those held just after the Second World War when animals and livestock were included and a show ring was erected for the horse and pony events . |
| 6 | Eventually , however , the navvies and engineers overcame the difficulties and the bridge was erected over the road and the foundations of the embankment were laid . |
| 7 | Malc was kneeling at the altar and a price ticket of 39/11d ( nearly two quid ) decorated the sole of his shoe . |
| 8 | Then she came over to where he was kneeling by the fire and put her arms round him from behind and pressed her cheek against his . |
| 9 | A nested variance component model with random effects was calculated with the patient as unit and crypt and biopsy specimens as classification variable . |
| 10 | The dose in the water was calculated from the observation that a 35 g mouse drank 6 ml of water day - 1 . |
| 11 | Once again Leonora found herself fighting with the tiller in a dinghy threatening to stand on its head in a mountainous sea , but this time when the engine cut out she was plucked from the boat before she could hit the water . |
| 12 | The French cavalry charge which opened the battle was halted by the English archers ; the main body of the French army then advanced on foot , but was halted by the English and after bitter fighting withdrew . |
| 13 | I think it was overspeculated in the press that we 've sold the premises and it , it well gave the impression that perhaps we might be open you know , some people might not think we 're open even . |
| 14 | He found that energy fields surrounding salamanders possessed an energy field roughly shaped like the adult animal , and discovered that the field 's electrical axis was aligned with the brain and spinal cord . |
| 15 | Rosie was resting on the couch when Shelley went in . |
| 16 | On the outbreak of the second Dutch war in 1664 Stokes was recalled to the navy as captain of the Triumph , but he fell ill soon afterwards and died in Portsmouth 11 February 1665 . |
| 17 | Its defence of justification was withdrawn at the trial when its alleged " highly-placed sources " went to ground . |
| 18 | The government delegation was withdrawn following the news that a former minister , Argelino Durán Quintero , 76 , abducted by the EPL on Jan. 26 , had died in captivity of a heart attack . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Where a competent objector desires to object in relation to any application , he shall , not later than seven days before the meeting of the licensing board at which the application is to be considered : ( a ) lodge with the clerk of the board a written notice of objection which be signed by the objector or his agent and shall specify the grounds of his objection and ( b ) intimate his objection to the applicant in the manner provided by subsection ( 3 ) below , and an objection shall not be entertained by the licensing board unless it is proved or admitted that such objection was intimated to the applicant as aforesaid . |
| 20 | Sun Microsystems Inc 's Billerica , Massachusetts-based SunSelect personal computer-to-Unix integration company has acquired the assets of Praxsys Technologies Inc , the Norwood , Massachusetts company that was formed by the team that developed Phoenix Technologies Ltd 's VPix MS-DOS-under-Unix emulation environment after Phoenix abandoned that business . |
| 21 | However , SunSelect recently acquired the assets of Praxsys Technologies Inc , the Norwood , Massachusetts-based company that was formed by the team that developed Phoenix Technologies Ltd 's VPix MS-DOS-under-Unix emulation environment after Phoenix abandoned that business . |
| 22 | It was formed by the heating and crushing of shale , a sedimentary rock which has hardened from mud . |
| 23 | The Independent Association is not political , but was formed in the hope that people would pool their news , views and ideas . |
| 24 | Altho' his physiognomy was European , he was clad in the turban and loose trousers of a Malay . |
| 25 | The outrage was enormous , he was stripped of the captaincy and , although he played in the Tests of that year , his career was over . |
| 26 | In September 1907 he was stripped of the captaincy and fined £10 for drunkenness and violent behaviour and in 1910 transferred for a measly £100 to Woolwich Arsenal . |
| 27 | Alf himself was stripped of the captaincy and fined £10 in September 1907 for an episode of ‘ drunkenness and violent behaviour ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ How many miles d' you reckon today , twenty ? ’ asked Paddy , who was stripped to the waist and had a knotted handkerchief on his ginger mop of hair . |
| 29 | He was stripped to the waist and the scars on his chest were like a map of the battles in which he had fought . |
| 30 | He was stripped to the waist and as he jogged along between the shafts a few coins — obviously his meagre earnings for the day — jingled pathetically in a leather pouch fastened to the back of his belt . |