Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everett was duly interviewed for suitability in a hall in Shepherd 's Bush on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 2 | During this syndicalist period the ‘ official ’ movement was wholly committed to participation in the programme of modernization in which it participated with regional capital and the associated regional élite ( see Ben well CDP , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | To this documentary evidence may be added the fact that Sa'deddin states that Molla Arab was intimately involved as Mufti in the peace negotiations in 895–6/1490–1 which brought an end to the war between the Ottomans and the Mamluks over control of Cilicia . |
| 4 | Bishop Ralph de Luffa began a complete rebuilding in 1091 , but it was badly damaged by fire in 1114 . |
| 5 | A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton , Wensleydale . |
| 6 | A car was badly damaged by fire in West Witton , Wensleydale . |
| 7 | If faster scrapping was properly taken into account in the capital stock statistics it would show up in a higher figure for depreciation ( and thus a lower profit share ) rather than a falling output-capital ratio . |
| 8 | He was especially troubled by pain in his kidneys , which he believed was due to kidney stones ‘ occasioned by unsuitable diet in my youth ’ . |
| 9 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 10 | Morton is expanding its operation at Dewsbury in the UK to make the solid resin where previously the resin was shipped in from the US and was only put into solution in the UK . |
| 11 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 12 | A deal with EMI beckoned , and 15-year-old singer Stinky Turner was soon going on stage in his pyjamas and bawling , ‘ You insult my intelligence but I a not a fool ! ’ to the band 's legion of admirers ( affectionately known as ‘ The Rubber Glove Firm ’ ) . |
| 13 | From 1921 to 1927 Kingsmill 's ordinary experience was comfortably divided between employment in his father 's travel business in Lucerne and the writing of fiction . |
| 14 | That the White Revolution was massively acclaimed by referendum in 1973 did not commend it any the more to the clergy . |
| 15 | Derby 's keeper Steve Sutton was finally called into action in the 57th minute , turning a drive from Fabris round the post . |
| 16 | After Brunel 's death , and in more prosperous times , work was recommenced on a modified design , as a tribute to the great man whose career as an independent engineer had begun with this project , and the bridge was finally opened to traffic in 1864 . |
| 17 | On 5 July the body , whether it was Crabb 's or not , was finally laid to rest in Portsmouth cemetery . |
| 18 | In February 1977 Serfaty was finally put on trial in Kenitra , which Amnesty considered grossly unfair . |
| 19 | After a contentious and abortive attempt to set up a population register in 1753 , a Bill for a Census was finally passed without fuss in 1800 ( Glass 1973 ) . |
| 20 | They had a point , I was forced to admit , since I was already suffering from frostbite in the toes . |
| 21 | It was submitted that the risk of death was already taken into consideration in the expectation of life . |
| 22 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 23 | Orlando Azcué Rodríguez ( AI Prisoners Letter Writing Campaign June/July 1991 ) was conditionally released from prison in Cuba on 19 July 1991 after serving only 16 months of his three-year sentence for ‘ enemy propaganda . ’ |
| 24 | I think it was just the thought that if one shift did n't turn up or if people stopped turning up , then others would n't turn up and it 'd just escalate until everyone was just sitting at home in front of the fire and the quarries would function as normal , and the fact , well certainly with me , I thought well we have to make an appearance to show people that we are still on strike and keep , you know everyone who drives past us will be saying , ah hello what 's up with them ? |
| 25 | I was generally pressed for time in my few day in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well as it deserved . |
| 26 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 27 | The completed first phase of the west coast road , which would eventually connect Castries and Soufrière , was formally opened to traffic in December 1990 . |
| 28 | Was there maybe a sneaking feeling that , if he was n't laughing at her , he was usually laughing at life in general , and that he might be quite fun to be with ? |
| 29 | The one long straggly high street was always smothered in dust in the summer and with mud in the winter when the great stone carts lurched down from the quarries to the ‘ bankers ’ — the place where the stone was stacked up along the shore . |
| 30 | This metal was specially developed for use in magnetic control systems and amplifiers and has a remarkably rectangular hysteresis loop in which the remanent flux is only 2.6% less than the saturation flux . |