Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was propped up now against a heap of pillows . |
| 2 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 3 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 4 | It worked out as she hoped ; Tommaso was hanging about outside in the square with a group of other young men , smoking and strolling around to join the girls drawing the evening water at the fountain ; he came near her ; to her surprise , she saw he was n't smiling , not like the others , who were laughing and exchanging remarks , between themselves , grinning strenuously as they play-acted contempt for the young women they wooed . |
| 5 | Chicago was blacked out yesterday after a freak flood caused by two million gallons of water from the Chicago river which poured through a hole in its retaining wall . |
| 6 | A splendid noisy scene was building up nicely in the breakfast room . |
| 7 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 8 | THE management team which has built the most successful Great Britain side since the Seventies was broken up yesterday with the dismissal of the 54-year-old Les Bettinson , team manager since 1985 . |
| 9 | THE management team which has built the most successful Great Britain side since the Seventies was broken up yesterday with the dismissal of the 54-year-old Les Bettinson , team manager since 1985 . |
| 10 | All , it was pointed out acidly by the headmaster , fairly useless languages ( except perhaps the German ) , but that was his lookout . |
| 11 | I was walking through here to the office . |
| 12 | She was walking on ahead up the narrow path now , he following behind pushing his bike , when he said , ‘ Your people live here ? ’ |
| 13 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 14 | The weaving yarn was caught down randomly across the row , but in a different way on adjacent rows , and in such a way that the design was largely floats ( swatch 3 , card 3 ) . |
| 15 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 16 | They were listed and marked on specially prepared maps ( 1/5000 scale ) and a full census of all residents was carried out shortly before the start of each trial . |
| 17 | The invasion of Abyssinia was carried out successfully with the aid of poison gas and the widespread payment of bribes to local chieftains . |
| 18 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 19 | I was let down lightly at the beginning , though . |
| 20 | Fortunately it was dusk , and firing was dying out all along the line . |
| 21 | Already , on the side nearest the river , Osbern had reformed his men and was driving back again at a different angle . |
| 22 | While he , Owen , was tearing around all over the place like a bloody lunatic ! |
| 23 | In the end there was only one way of doing it and that was climbing up there with a match and a long piece of wire . |
| 24 | And of the four who had climbed into the stockade , only one was not wounded , and he was climbing out again with the fear of death in him . |
| 25 | Where the printed story came from I do n't know , but basically it was made up somewhere along the line ; a fairy story . |
| 26 | Her voice : a light ‘ Come in — ’ She was made up still for the stage . |
| 27 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 28 | Miss Logan did not break her alarmed silence ; she merely followed her employer who was pushing on ahead up a gully of rock . |
| 29 | Some way below the garden a man stood quietly washing himself in the hot water from the spring ; it was channelled down there in a homemade aqueduct of halved bamboo stalks resting on forked twigs . |
| 30 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |