Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I I fucking get it right , say something , I was right pissed off by this time , next , I , I , I stood out and step forward fucking get closer sort of thing and say something and that was it , . |
| 2 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 3 | It started life in the cloth trade but , as with many other Woodchester mills , was eventually turned over to other uses . |
| 4 | Haynes was eventually run out for 62 and left the field in tears thinking he had lost his team the match , but by then only three more were needed and Roberts was striking the ball well . |
| 5 | After US obstruction , a Committee of the Board of Governors of the IMF was eventually set up for this purpose late in 1972 . |
| 6 | He was eventually picked up by another driver . |
| 7 | He was badly beaten up by late substitute Carl Thompson , who scaled 13st 3lb — around 17lb more than Benn will weigh tonight — and went on to become British cruiserweight champion . |
| 8 | A taste for wearing amber was widely taken up among allied groups in south Germany and north Italy , at the head of the Adriatic . |
| 9 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 10 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 11 | Sometimes she was so brought down by one of his pronouncements that she had to change completely . |
| 12 | Suspension : If dirt was merely broken up into small particles cleaning would not necessarily be able to take place as there would be nothing to prevent the dirt reforming and re-attaching to a surface . |
| 13 | It was all gone in about one minute fifty seconds . |
| 14 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
| 15 | It was all sorted out after some confusion and a lot of ill-feeling ; the BMW people moved their boat forward so cars and trailers could get past it to the road . |
| 16 | His physical presence was all mixed up with muddy tracks , overgrown woodland paths , rain and barbed wire fences and glasses of beer in steamy pubs . |
| 17 | One end of the room was entirely taken up by built-in cupboards full of books , photographs and racing trophies prominently displayed . |
| 18 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 19 | Although stool collection in their study was only carried out for 24–48 hours , it was done at home . |
| 20 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 21 | The firebombing of an Istanbul department store on Dec. 25 , in which 11 people died , was apparently carried out by Kurdish students in protest at the deaths the previous day of at least eight Kurds attending funerals in the south-east . |
| 22 | Out went a Tropicana which was soon joined by about fifty free offerings and back on the buzzer the rod went while I returned to my seat . |
| 23 | It was soon taken up by other French writers , many of whom were attracted by its reminiscences of the Greek phalanx of classical times , and a prolonged controversy between the advocates of the new system and those of the traditional line formation developed . |
| 24 | The whole structure was thus made up of crystalline regions imbedded randomly in a continuous amorphous matrix . |
| 25 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 26 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 27 | India was largely cut off for long periods , and its under-developed arms and textile industries were required to supply substantial quantities of ammunition and tents to British forces in the Middle and Far East . |
| 28 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 29 | Their community was largely made up of American slaves who had fled across the border to freedom in a British territory . |
| 30 | Sartre 's argument for History as totalization , then , was already caught up in interminable difficulties by the time he was drafting Volume II of the Critique in 1958 . |