Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [to-vb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first great public indication of the shift in Barth 's thinking came in 1927 , when he published the first volume of a projected Christian Dogmatics , which was intended eventually to handle in a systematic way all the main Christian doctrines . |
| 2 | What was really getting to him was the fact that alien-fever was proving hard to eradicate in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 3 | ‘ I was starting to make the Sunday dinner and Brian said he was going out to play in the park . |
| 4 | If she misbehaved , she was packed off to sleep in the old people 's home in another part of the building — a terrifying prospect for a girl with such a vivid imagination . |
| 5 | Seb spent the evening drinking steadily , talking generalities , until Jacob was called away to intervene in a fight between two of his navvies . |
| 6 | ‘ Robert had just taken over the Seconds , but was called back to play in the first team . |
| 7 | By week 3 he was nodding off to sleep in an armchair as soon as he had finished dinner . |
| 8 | Germany was not only humbled but humiliated , yet the Kaiser was swept off to exile in a train twenty carriages long followed by a cavalcade of twelve motor cars . |
| 9 | A policy decision was taken not to bid in the standard commercial power electronics market , but to concentrate in the more specialised nuclear and petrochemical sector where the company 's strengths lie . |
| 10 | ‘ In the primary-school playground , of course , when I was singled out to stand in the centre of a ring while a dozen sweet-faced little girls danced round me chanting ‘ Shannon 's dad 's a robber . ’ ' |