Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that the Arts Centre , which I was very much involved with in erm Berkshire in Southfield Park , it , too , was situated slightly out of the centre of the town , with large ground area around it and it was a problem trying to work out how to capitalize on that considerable asset . |
| 2 | She heard him call after her and got into one of the swing boats with a pale , freckled little boy who was hanging nervously on to the rope while his plain , doting parents stood beside the boat , saying encouragingly , ‘ Go on , Sidney , it 'll be such fun . ’ |
| 3 | The glass was placed gently back on the counter in front of Newman . |
| 4 | Instead she was gazing sombrely out of the window of a smart Mercedes taxi as it left behind the flat landscaped suburbs of the island of Amager , crossing the bridge to the main island of Zealand and the approach to the city of Copenhagen . |
| 5 | Mike Sadler was flown straight back to the Eighth Army and assigned the task of navigating the New Zealand Division around the south of the Mareth line , while Cooper was able to enjoy the pleasures of Constantine with an old friend , Reg Seekings , who had made his way through after the B Squadron attacks on the road . |
| 6 | This waistcoat had flap-pockets and reached down almost to the knees : it was fastened right up to the neck with horse-shoe buttons , leaving just enough space for the red-spotted muffler or wrapper to be seen underneath . |
| 7 | It was fastened tightly on to the right horn , so it dangled down over the cheek and eye . |
| 8 | A few minutes later , Sir Thomas was walking slowly back to the Imperial Hotel in advance of the main party . |
| 9 | He was walking purposefully through into the garden , a huge lawn with an abundance of mimosa and roses , and untamed greenery bordering the edges . |
| 10 | My sister 's dead body was carried slowly out of the house and through the village , followed by all of us . |
| 11 | Screaming , Duvall was sucked backwards out of the window in a cloud of broken glass and was instantly gone . |
| 12 | And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes . |
| 13 | Sally was looking thoughtfully out of the hotel window and at the steady procession of passersby , a good proportion of whom were visitors , to judge by the number of cameras to be seen . |
| 14 | For a moment , she was looking directly out of the picture . |
| 15 | Fiver was looking far out beyond the edge of the common . |
| 16 | Further on down , near to the city , a single felucca was gliding gracefully in towards the bank . |
| 17 | The afternoon progressed , but was moved now on to a different plane , lit by the glow of expectation . |
| 18 | The 29-year-old cost £500,000 from Copenhagen , but he was turned inside out by an Aston Villa side that cruelly exposed his lack of pace . |
| 19 | But their hopes were dashed when the rope snapped and the Bettina Danica was pushed further on to the rocks by the rising tide and the heavy swell . |
| 20 | Naturally , the greater part of the volume of this room is within the roof space and a consequence of this is that a small pre-existing ventilation opening , which was sited high up below the eaves of the barn and is now glazed to form a window , has its sill at floor level . |
| 21 | It was nearly closing time , and the school party , thankfully marshalled by its young leader , was pouring vociferously out into the chill of the early evening , and heading with released shouts for its waiting coach . |
| 22 | Her short wavy black hair was combed neatly back from a rather narrow sloping forehead with prominent brow ridges . |
| 23 | His hair was combed straight back like a French politician of the Third Republic . |
| 24 | It split the glass , entered the left closed eye , and was buried right up to the hilt . |
| 25 | ‘ It was Lying right up on the shoal . ’ |
| 26 | On the far side of the pond was the old ford and Mum used to tell us that this was the route to the city taken by carts before the building of the old Harnham Bridge in the fourteenth century , although I expect it was used right up to the advent of the motor car . |
| 27 | A pale yellow lustre was growing low down in the east , making feathery silhouettes out of the black stands of trees along the bends in the river . |
| 28 | Richards ' main runner is On The Other Hand who was bought recently out of the John Mulhern stable after having been with Jeremy Maxwell in his early days . |
| 29 | Tess was going further on in the carriage . |
| 30 | The man at the top of the mercer 's ladder was clambering awkwardly out onto the roof . |