Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was intended principally as a confidence-building measure to promote an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue . |
| 2 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 3 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 4 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 5 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 6 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 7 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 8 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 9 | The author was once involved in the takeover of a small company where costing was undertaken manually in a large ledger . |
| 10 | Most non-Americans do not realise how large the Civil War looms in the American consciousness , and until recently ( before Carter and Reagan ) in the South ‘ federal government was regarded essentially as a northern out fit attempting to foist liberal urban values on the stately old agrarian Confederacy ’ . |
| 11 | The kitchen was filled instantly with a loud snuffling noise , interspersed with grunts ; Edward , perking up , poured out his tea and listened attentively . |
| 12 | The dead silence was broken only by a regular drip , drip , drip . |
| 13 | It was swollen now like a blue boxing glove . |
| 14 | One major consequence of Communist International neglect of Latin America during the 1920s was that inadequate literature was made available in Spanish for the dissemination of Communist ideas ( this was pointed out by a Mexican delegate at the Sixth Congress ) . |
| 15 | It was hidden away down a dingy little cul-de-sac ending in a railway embankment and a station hardly anyone used any more . |
| 16 | He was to remain there for a further six years . |
| 17 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 18 | A players ' strike was averted only after a top-level six-hour meeting last week , but Fry revealed some players were still not happy with their pay-slips , allegedly short of £60 . |
| 19 | Diana was teased mercilessly about a framed photograph of Prince Charles , taken at his Investiture in 1969 , which hung in her school dormitory . |
| 20 | I did n't have to think — I was leaping downhill like a goddamned goat before I 'd summed up the situation : which was they intended to rob me . |
| 21 | A ROADSWEEPER driver was fined yesterday after a serious road crash on a busy road . |
| 22 | Thus what I called Crime and Punishment 's apocalyptic naturalism is its most vital link with The Possessed ; I mean , when Dostoevsky read about that gang murder in the Moscow Record his mind 's eye was caught not by a bizarre and therefore very newsworthy incident but by the seed of a foul commonplace : the seed in eternity , in the deepest realism , though also in the mere mundane future , for Dostoevsky did imagine a time when only the most spectacular acts of terrorism would get headline treatment . |
| 23 | Affreca , daughter of the King of the Isle of Man , had been on her way to these shores to marry Sir John de Courcy but was caught up in a violent storm . |
| 24 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 25 | The fact that Lewis did is not a sign that he was illogical , merely that he was caught up in a spiritual drama which involved more than ‘ paper logic ’ . |
| 26 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 27 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 28 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 29 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 30 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |