Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their supply base had been moved forward to Benghazi , which by that time had been captured by the British , and it was intended to stay out for as long as two months , mounting almost nightly raids . |
| 2 | At about 07.50 , a series of deafening detonations was heard , and a great black cloud was seen to issue out from near the top of Mt Pelee . |
| 3 | Ideas and information were exchanged , and an attempt was made to map out in very general terms what the two nations had in common in the Middle East . |
| 4 | I was told to sit down for about five hours in a hall , to wait for them to call my name out , to go to see the doctor . |
| 5 | Recipes for this " black tart stuff " as it was called appear in at least two cookery books of the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |