Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignominiously , I was hustled out after my second question clutching my scrap of question paper . |
| 2 | The parents of former Heighington Primary School teacher Catherine Lee visited the village last week to tell villagers how she was getting on in her third year teaching in East Africa . |
| 3 | Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem and in January 1991 , when W. was coming up towards her fifteenth birthday , it was necessary to resort to in-patient treatment . |
| 4 | He was coming up to his twenty-seventh birthday and his face had already acquired some of the lived-in look that became one of his characteristics later in his career . |
| 5 | I was going to ask Jenette anyway , as it was coming up to my 40th birthday . ’ |
| 6 | Gagong Apang was re-elected leader of the Congress ( I ) legislative party on March 5 and was sworn in for his fourth term as Chief Minister on March 7 . |
| 7 | Brian Rose was brought in for his first home Test and promised he would attack the bowling ; he was as good as his word and made 70 , but 33 from Gatting was the only other contribution as the last seven wickets went for 24 in fifty-two minutes . |
| 8 | OLDHAM prop Mark Sheals , signed from Leigh this summer , was sent off on his first trip back to Hilton Park . |
| 9 | Paul Ritchie was sent off for his second bookable offence following a lunging challenge on Richard Gough and the visitors quickly pressed home their numerical advantage . |