Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church was reconsecrated in the presence of HM the Queen in October 1958 as the Central Church of The RAF . |
| 2 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |
| 3 | A new HNC in Golf Course Management was validated in the summer of 1992 , and will be offered by four colleges in session 1993–94 . |
| 4 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 5 | He went down the stairs and was stopped at the sound of voices . |
| 6 | She went over to the Cookery and Refreshments Tent , but was stopped at the entrance by a pale-faced Constable Perkins . |
| 7 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 8 | He said the taxi was stopped on the underdeck of Craigavon Bridge and four men , including the three accused , were arrested . |
| 9 | They were awarded a penalty try when winger Carl Knight was stopped on the line by a very high tackle , and then the pack gave Osborne a pushover try . |
| 10 | He was stopped by the snout of Shamlou 's pistol , jammed hard under his chin . |
| 11 | Incubation was continued for 10 min , after which the reaction was stopped by the addition of 1 µl of 0.5 M EDTA , 1 µg of carrier tRNA , 3 µl of 3 M potassium acetate and 70 µl of ethanol . |
| 12 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 5 µl of a solution containing 1 M β-mercaptoethanol and 1.5 M sodium acetate . |
| 13 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of ice cold phosphate . |
| 14 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 75 µl of saturated sodium carbonate and the optical density was read at 580 nm ( Cobas Bioanalyser , Roche ) . |
| 15 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 11 N HCLO 4 and the cells were centrifuged at 4000 g , 10 minutes . |
| 16 | She was stopped by the man behind the desk , who had no difficulty in recognising her . |
| 17 | Jack himself was stopped in the street by a man who wanted to change two $50 bills at black market rate . |
| 18 | As a US diplomat tells it , ‘ He was driving from Lilongwe [ the Malawian capital ] to Lusaka when he was stopped near the border by police . |
| 19 | The decline of the natural jet industry was hastened by the invention of an artificial substitute , ebonite or vulcanite , made by exposing india-rubber and sulphur to intense heat . |
| 20 | Both Bauthumleys then were closely involved in the emergence of Nonconformity in Leicester , a process which was hastened by the action of the forces attempting to achieve its eradication . |
| 21 | This division between ‘ core ’ and ‘ peripheral ’ workers was hastened by the concentration of redundancies , from 1979 to 1981 , among male manual workers . |
| 22 | As we have seen , the move towards a more considered view of the curriculum was hastened by the initiative of central Government , responding to a widely held disenchantment with educational performance . |
| 23 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 24 | Handfast Point was joined to the cliff by a narrow ridge at this time . |
| 25 | He was joined at the door by his wife and daughter . |
| 26 | The 40-year-old veteran , now competing for London club Haringey , was joined on the rostrum by Bedlington policeman Paul Reed , who took the discus bronze medal with 50.70 metres and silver in the shot with a putt of 15.14 metres . |
| 27 | After the tour , Manly was joined in the chase for Ofahengaue 's signature by St. George . |
| 28 | Seles was joined in the semi-final by fellow-American Martina Navratilova who beat Spain 's Arantxa Sanchez Vicario 6–1 , 2–6 , 6–2 . |
| 29 | But as the runners made round the left-hand bend in front of the stands and set off into the country for the first time she was joined in the lead by Run And Skip , and the company clearly put her off , for she hit the third fence hard . |
| 30 | The Federal Republic of Germany was constituted in 1949 from the three western zones of occupied Germany ; on Oct. 3 , 1990 , it was joined by the territory of the former German Democratic Republic ( created in 1949 from the Soviet-occupied eastern zone ) and by Berlin ( previously under four-power administration ) . |