Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 2 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 3 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 4 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 5 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 7 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 8 | Brian , alone of us all , knew how difficult it was to go through with a hunger strike . |
| 9 | And one of the reporters came out and er he asked me he 's heard that our decision was to go out for a strike you see . |
| 10 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 11 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 12 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 13 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 14 | Behind him the heat was building up to a storm , the sky was thick with it already . |
| 15 | Sergeant Collier — the prisoners may refresh themselves. , The party was drawing up with a jingle and a grinding of hooves on a cobbled forecourt . |
| 16 | I was marched down to A block [ punishment ] . |
| 17 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 18 | This house , full of perspectives and privacy , was shaping up as a mother , as well as a mistress and a wife . |
| 19 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 20 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 21 | the ship 's radio officer was catching up on a backlog of communications ; some outgoing messages from passengers took precedence over ice warnings |
| 22 | Now if he did n't shave his hair off and he was walking around with a rim round the side of his head |
| 23 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 24 | ‘ The boyfriend was walking around in a daze . |
| 25 | The string was walking round in a circle at the end of the gallops when Bill 's Audi drew up . |
| 26 | Imagine my poor Aunt 's reaction when told by a shocked neighbour that her eldest daughter was walking out with a Chinaman . |
| 27 | EMO was walking out of a studio one day when he was struck by a taxi . |
| 28 | Mark , 26 , said : ‘ A woman was walking along like a zombie clinging to the little girl , but doing nothing even though the girl was completely engulfed in flames and sobbing . |
| 29 | His brief was to come up with a recipe for a high-growth food with cost ( within reason ) no object . |
| 30 | ‘ All I did was come out for a walk before going to bed , and I was about by that place where the bank 's caved in , when somebody jumped me from behind . |