Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 2 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |
| 3 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 4 | The evidence on housing interiors given by the Women 's Labour League to the Tudor Walters Committee on Housing Design at the end of the War proved influential , although housing policy generally was formulated more from a fear of unrest by working class men than with the needs of working class women in mind . |
| 5 | David Nock , who was 16 , from Leckhampton in Cheltenham , was jogging home from a disco when he died from a single stab wound to the heart . |
| 6 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 7 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 8 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 9 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 10 | The bed was tucked modestly into a corner of the room . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 12 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 13 | VisionWare , based in Leeds , was formed recently as a management buy-out from Systime ( tel. : 0532 529292 ) . |
| 14 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 15 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 16 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 17 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 19 | In one well-remembered case Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had tried to insist that he should have the marriage of the probable heiress to the Viscount of Limoges , but the nobles of the Limousin , fearing " the Poitevin yoke " , successfully resisted this demand and she was given instead to a Count of Angoulême . |
| 20 | A capsule of SeHCAT ( 10 µCi , Amersham International ) was given orally with a drink of water and the initial count rate ( 100% value ) was measured three hours after the intake of isotope ( day 0 ) , by an uncollimated gamma camera ( Porta Camera , General Electric Nuclear Medical ApS , Horsholm , Denmark ) . |
| 21 | To prevent acidosis due to the operative trauma an infusion of a glucose-bicarbonate solution ( see below ) was given intra-arterially at a rate of 0.03 ml.min - 1 . |
| 22 | Equally it is inadequate to say the promise was given solely as a response to the political pressure of wartime radicalism . |
| 23 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 24 | ‘ His advice was to go immediately to a Casualty unit at a local hospital . |
| 25 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 26 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 27 | By this time Lisabeth was sniffing dramatically into a wad of Kleenex and Fenella had an arm round her ( well , half way round — her arms are n't that long ) for comfort . |
| 28 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 29 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 30 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |