Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [det] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the process was stopped at that point and the Chart was examined , would be best interpretation of that segment . |
| 2 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 3 | The room he was looking into was stripped of all furniture and decoration ; if anybody had occupied this house since Sartori 's time — and it surely had n't stood empty for two hundred years — they had gone , taking every trace of their presence . |
| 4 | She was drained of all colour and animation , but alive . |
| 5 | Altogether teachers from 36 schools participated in these groups ; a member of the project team was assigned to each group and meetings were initially held once or twice a term . |
| 6 | Creggan was fascinated by this thought and wanted Kraal to tell him more about this place . |
| 7 | Their total of 134 was overhauled without much trouble and pride was restored . |
| 8 | Now what I want to do is look at what was happening at that time and then try and explain using the determinants of demand what the patterns actually were . |
| 9 | ‘ She said he was laughing at that time and she just wanted to frighten him . ’ |
| 10 | Under the 1964 Judges Rules , questioning was permitted during this period and many cases were disposed of following confessions or damaging admissions by suspects after arrest . |
| 11 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |
| 12 | Travis was transferred to another area and the life of the signal box returned to normal . |
| 13 | On Jan. 6 , 1990 , Chevènement announced a re-evaluation of military pay which proposed a series of premiums and indemnities , but was met with some disappointment and scepticism by the military which was increasingly critical of the discrepancy between the growth in spending on military material and that on personnel . |
| 14 | As will all reminders of the penalties of war , the true cost of this memorial was met in another time and place , but the financial charge was paid in Canada by ex-members of 431 ( Iroquois ) and 434 ( Bluenose ) Squadrons RCAF , who flew from the airfield from December 1943 until June 1945 . |
| 15 | At the end of the incubation , supernatant was collected from each well and the radioactivity was measured with a γ-counter . |
| 16 | As Wilson mentions , she had recently had a harrowing shock , so it is possible that she was hallucinating in some way and that , by chance , her hallucinations corresponded approximately with historical reality . |
| 17 | This is the one who 's was living with another woman and his |
| 18 | ‘ I think you should just bury it , ’ said Betty , and Lydia did see what she meant , for human death was attended with such ritual and dispatch that for an instant it seemed cruelly perverse to deny something similar to this helpless creature . |
| 19 | A right of first refusal was granted to former land and home owners when their expropriated property came on the market . |
| 20 | This was done without any cynicism or insincerity . |
| 21 | Whether in terms of German economic and monetary union , the immediate measures that the European Community will be thinking of taking , the transitional arrangements once Germany is unified , and that this was done without any rancour but was done with the feelings of directly elected parliamentarians . |
| 22 | So it was done in that manner and it was fairly reasonable er and eventually you know , everybody but everybody was , was on this scheme . |
| 23 | ‘ The decision to call practitioners RN was made without any consultation and was very arrogant , ’ he said . |
| 24 | Advance notice of car movements had to be given , but no charge was made by either party and at last S.M.E.T. cars could be thoroughly overhauled at Hendon . |
| 25 | Here all stimuli were spoken words , and the subject 's task was to listen to each word and press a button as quickly as possible on hearing the sound /t/ — a task known as phoneme monitoring . |
| 26 | Of course , it was written to some girlfriend or other in England . |
| 27 | The LICOR machine was used in this experiment and the Delta-T in a later experiment which produced a characteristic of area against age of plant . |
| 28 | On 2 August he had a spectacular military victory at Baggotrath , calling it ‘ the absolutest victory that ever was got in this kingdom and the least loss of our side ’ , and , after a short interval back in England , he was in command at the siege of Tecroghan Castle near Trim in May 1650 . |
| 29 | ‘ It was opened by this man and woman ? ’ |
| 30 | That was it , because Edith was going on another holiday and she was er , she wanted someone to go and visit er Lilly , and I said well I 'll go . |