Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Only on the final climb of Sally Gap did he clinch victory as his rival , Gary Baker , was struggling back from two punctures .
2 Noble sold the mill and by 1887 it had been taken over by Moses John Mason who , at his peak , was producing up to four tons of millboard per week .
3 In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families .
4 So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour .
5 He was propped up on three pillows , which felt strange to him .
6 ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys .
7 He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles .
8 In the first experiment nasal mucus from the patient , with coryza , was shaken up with five times its volume of normal salt solution , and the mixture was centrifuged .
9 Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television .
10 He was cheered along by proud parents and his then girlfriend , Rosanne .
11 A demonstration led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I on April 12 was broken up by Israeli police using tear gas ; demonstrations continued on a daily basis .
12 Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage .
13 The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) .
14 This suggestion is supported by the fact that the Ψ40-synthesis in mutant a207 was delayed by about 24 hours ( Fig. 2C ) , a time required for almost complete modification of G26 to m 2 2G26 .
15 He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently .
16 This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B .
17 The aim was to report back with bold proposals for the more efficient and effective trial of long fraud cases .
18 The marble floor was scattered about with individual rugs .
19 Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years .
20 ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours .
21 The doctor had opened the door suddenly , was walking in with two nurses , directing them to either side of the bed as the heart machine flashed and beeped alarmingly .
22 And he said I was to come back in six months ’ time . ’
23 That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 .
24 One is the magnanimous view that the DES was caught out by economic circumstances and a declining birth rate and that circumstances combined to overthrow its carefully planned reorganization .
25 Much ill-feeling was vented out on former collaborators , many of whom faced summary execution before government authority was fully established .
26 Not that she intended accepting any favours from him , but she knew he was booked in for two nights , which gave her time to return his hospitality if she could not manipulate tonight into a Dutch treat .
27 One of the worst winters we had was at the start of the war , in 1940 , when the river was frozen over for six weeks right to the end of March and there was two feet of snow .
28 Up to about 1730 most of this enclosure was carried through by private agreements between the owners of the land in question .
29 Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company .
30 Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains .
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