Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 2 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 3 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 4 | An RUC Inspector yesterday said Martin William Benson , 22 , of O'Reilly Park , Mullaghbawn , was caught by a Dunnes Stores detective at Newry 's Buttercrane Centre . |
| 5 | She was preceded by a cloud.of dogs . |
| 6 | In its " final " cleanup plan announced on May 1 , 1989 , Exxon had envisaged employing 3,400 people in the operation ( but following public pressure this number was increased within a matter days to 5,000 , and a total of 12,000 were involved at the height of the operation ) and estimated that a total of US$1,300 million would be spent . |
| 7 | A thin-sliced T-weighted MRI and magnetic resonance angiography was obtained with a Radionics MRI ring and fiducial system attached to the patient 's skull . |
| 8 | Following the Antiques Road Show appearance , Mrs Cooper 's art work was studied by a WEA antiques class who carried out a research project on marquetery . |