Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Chaplain had done a lot of good work and was given back up by the other Chaplains . |
| 2 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 3 | As she was pressed back on to the couch her mind raced madly in protest , but all she managed to bring out in a kind of croak was , ‘ No , Daddy , no . ’ |
| 4 | The easiest way to turn the car was to drive on up to the hardstand by the church , and as he swung about he realised it was in fact the old foundations of small cottages , completely gone with The Bomber . |
| 5 | As we turned the corner Mel was ambling up out of an underground car park — he 'd been parking his Rolls-Royce or something . |
| 6 | The hand was sewn back on in an 11½-hour operation at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood , north London . |
| 7 | At least , she was venturing out on to the verandah of the Mackenzie farm steading on most days and lay in the shade , making an endless succession of crocheted table covers and mats . |
| 8 | Evidence of just how viscous the lavas are , and how great the forces involved are , was provided by the great spine which was pushed up out of the vent of Mt Pelee , reaching over 300 metres in height . |
| 9 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 10 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 11 | The 70-year-old woman , who has not been named , was coming out on to the A67 from Piercebridge when her car stalled . |
| 12 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 13 | Six weeks before the assault on Verdun , the French Second Army had been relieved by the rapidly expanding British Army , and was pulled back out of the line to form a general reserve . |
| 14 | Minutes later , Rachel was running out on to the road , hailing a taxi and driving off into Central . |
| 15 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 16 | ‘ I was brought back along with the body of my mother . |
| 17 | As we threw things in the car , thick purple cloud was boiling up out of the hidden cauldron of the Sélé glacier and over the Ailefroide Occidentale . |
| 18 | In 1818 , the outraged county magnates forced his withdrawal but he was swept back in by a temporary swing in support from the freehold voters . |
| 19 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 20 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 21 | It is no longer our intention to provide this cover automatically as an air compressor would be deemed as Own Surrounding Property and therefore would only be covered for explosion risks if this endorsement was taken out along with the basic cover on the air receiver . |
| 22 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 23 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |
| 24 | No wonder ‘ Wallaby Walker ’ was hopping up out of the dug-out onto the pitch again . |