Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 2 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 3 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 4 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 5 | Along the route he was stopped by a dwarf and led into the mountain , where he was told to empty his grain sacks and fill them with gold . |
| 6 | A stocky , energetic young man with a shock of red hair was thumping on a table-top and proclaiming in a strong Welsh accent : ‘ I 'm simply asking , when are we going to get our rights , like we was promised ? |
| 7 | He said it was not clear whether the device was intended for an animal or a person ’ . |
| 8 | It was only when she realised that she had n't used the unarmed combat that was by now second nature to her , but was struggling in a manner that was instinctive , that she stopped . |
| 9 | Even in Danish the brusque instruction was unmistakable as she was propelled across a threshold and with a fast movement of one strong arm sent revolving into a circle which ended when one of her calves struck the bed and she sat down heavily on its soft surface . |
| 10 | Patient compliance was checked with a diary and by counting the number of returned tablets or by calculating the quantity of amoxicillin suspension used , respectively . |
| 11 | Bryn was disguised as a priest and issued with false documents to deceive the enemy . |
| 12 | The youth hostel was closed , the only shop was disguised as a garage and had no window , a local quaker family had helped to close the only pub in the village in the 1950s , and a farmer I asked said he had none . |
| 13 | Dykstra started the season behind Billy Thomson in the pecking order at Fir Park , but even though the former Dundee United man was recalled for a game after Dykstra let in ten goals in three matches , the roles have now been reversed . |
| 14 | When OS/2 was announced , Unix was dismissed as a flop because there were almost as many versions of Unix as people selling it . |
| 15 | She was experimenting with a risotto when Ron Paget appeared at the door . |
| 16 | It was held ( a ) that it was a statement of present fact , namely that at the time the letter was sent the traveller had a definite and certain booking , ( b ) that that statement was false because the airline 's overbooking policy meant that the traveller 's booking was exposed to a risk that it might not give a seat on the aircraft , and ( c ) that the airline made the false statement knowingly ( and not merely recklessly ) since the airline was well aware of its own overbooking policy . |
| 17 | Whether the action was heard by a consul or by one of the praetores fideicommissarii , in either case it was not an action of the formulary system but of a kind which lay beyond that system ; the involvement of magistrates in assessing the cases was therefore known as cognitio extra ordinem . |
| 18 | THE issue of access for disabled people was highlighted in a Herald and Post article two weeks ago when a wheelchair-bound man experienced difficulty getting into a recently refurbished Comber bookies shop . |
| 19 | Coun Hughes said an ambulance had taken about 36 minutes to arrive in Barnard Castle after a man collapsed with chest pains outside his office on Thursday the man was treated by a doctor before the ambulance arrived . |
| 20 | I was treated like a servant so I asked Freddie to find me a place of my own . |
| 21 | Douglas Engelbart 's group published a paper in which each paragraph was prefaced by a number that exactly specified that paragraph 's position in the outline . |
| 22 | On the other hand a Stony Stratford shoemaker 's connexion with agriculture was limited to a cow and ( possibly ) a white horse ; his sideline was petty capitalism , if not simply money-lending , for his assets , totalling more than £28 , included £18. 1s. 8d. owed by seven different persons . |
| 23 | Sarella 's heart was wrung for a moment as she remembered how hard Marc was on his younger brother . |
| 24 | THE bitter tussle between Russia 's parliament and government appeared to be drawing to a close last night after preliminary approval was given to a compromise that would allow President Yeltsin 's administration to continue its reforms . |
| 25 | Because it 's not on T P S , and , and it was given , it was given to a great-aunt or something , and she hocked it off him . |
| 26 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 27 | The pond was situated in an area that necessitated walking though two dark , gloomy plantations that after dark were very spooky and the boys were always pleased to get through them . |
| 28 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 29 | Lower School was opposite the Chapel and here , under the dark oaken beams and arches , I was taught in a classroom that had been in continuous use as such since 1443 . |
| 30 | He was fumbling for a handkerchief as she hurried up . |