Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 3 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 4 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 5 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 7 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 8 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 9 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 10 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 11 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |
| 13 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 14 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 15 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 16 | According to Special Branch , very violent treatment was meted out in the foyer to the men removed by the Black-shirts ; the police intervened just in time to prevent serious injury . |
| 17 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 18 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 19 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 20 | Sterling — now the EC 's weakest currency following devaluation of the Italian lira — was propped up by the Bank of England , dashing hopes of an early interest rate cut in Britain . |
| 21 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 22 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 23 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 24 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 25 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 26 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 27 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 28 | I know , but the appalling thing is that the address list was given out at the A G M and Christine 's phone number is on it . |
| 29 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |
| 30 | She decided that her best hope was to go up to the belvedere and see if she could find any indication at all that someone else had been involved in Gebrec 's death . |