Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was repainted earlier in the year for the BR Bescot Open Day at Walsall while 0-6-0- shunter 13029 was also used for various duties around the Museum site during the course of the weekend . |
| 2 | Lily Firth , Lily Greene the actress , née Lily Greenwood of Leeds , was to holiday not in the South of France or Austria or Switzerland , but in deepest , darkest , furthest Rumania … |
| 3 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 4 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 5 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 6 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 7 | It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours . |
| 8 | Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century . |
| 9 | She was propelled roughly along the side of the van , squeezed between its side and the traffic . |
| 10 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 11 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 12 | The bending of light near a massive body is one prediction of GR , and this was checked crudely by the expedition of 1919 . |
| 13 | The sides were set , and national positions determined , in a debate that was to continue well into the future . |
| 14 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 15 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 17 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 18 | A small machine code programme was tucked away in the computer and when called upon would produce the necessary signals to drive the servos via the ‘ user port ’ and an interface box . |
| 19 | Sunday Life has learned his filofax , containing sensitive work contact numbers , was tucked away in the glove compartment . |
| 20 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 21 | She wore a gaberdine suit of dark blue , a white blouse , and her sheepskin was tucked away inside the baggage compartment above her head . |
| 22 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 23 | There is a third sister in this euphonious family : Marina , the baptised name of Malinche , mistress of Cortèz , through whose good offices and linguistic skills Mexico was conquered both for the Virgin Maria , and for Marina 's royal ancestors . |
| 24 | Cayard was recalled instantly by the committee but it took them 40 seconds to hoist the French recall signal , by which time they were well up the track . |
| 25 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 26 | Gordon Durie , the Tottenham striker , was withdrawn yesterday from the Scotland squad to face Malta on Wednesday at Ibrox after the player broke down in training . |
| 27 | The flags of all European nations were standing horizontal and cracking ominously above the hard and Lerissa , a handsome 52ft ( 15m ) classic sloop , was pitching wildly in the harbour mouth as other boats strained at their anchors . |
| 28 | The sequence of deposits suggests that the loch was formed shortly after the melting of the last great ice sheet about 13,000 years ago when the land surface was barren arctic desert . |
| 29 | RSVP was formed soon after the NRA announced it was considering building the reservoir in spring 1991 . |
| 30 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |