Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 2 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 3 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 4 | And tobacco ash was spilt down the front of his evening shirt . |
| 5 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 6 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |
| 7 | This type of shift was slit down the back for ease of application and secured with back-tie draw-strings at the neck and waist ; such items were , it is assumed , readily available from the undertaker . |
| 8 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 9 | The kids in the band whose guitar it really was set up a look-out in The Roebuck and , of course , they spotted him . |
| 10 | He stopped in his perambulation and his gaze fell on the table by the window ( set too high for children to see out of ) , on which was laid out a display of local history material . |
| 11 | There was extensive trading in coal , which was brought up the river from Yarmouth , and the rich tracts of land surrounding the town produced a considerable quantity of corn , particularly barley . |
| 12 | The case was brought in the name of Professor Harry Keen , director of clincial services ( medicine ) at Guy 's hospital , London . |
| 13 | The site was sold to Vickers for £300,000 in 1946 and thus was brought about the end of a motor racing legend . |
| 14 | Corbett was led down a maze of corridors and into a chamber where the Prince of Wales and Gaveston , both white-faced and sober , stood waiting to receive him . |
| 15 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 16 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 17 | Victoria , always pretty and amenable , was taken on a round of the treats considered traditional for an upper-class London child : the zoo , the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace , ice-cream at Fortnum & Mason 's soda fountain , a visit to the enclosure reserved for some overweight rabbits near the statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and a Christmas pantomime called Where the Rainbow Ends in which four intrepid children fed their pet British lion a medicine called the Commonwealth mixture . |
| 18 | He stresses that the decision was taken on the spur of the moment and that it seemed completely acceptable to everyone there at the time . |
| 19 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |
| 20 | The following survey was taken on the streets of Bradford . |
| 21 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 22 | Clare was let off the residential weekend which is a normal part of the selection process and was taken on the strength of her interview and written application . |
| 23 | So no action was taken on the ideas of the Layfield Committee . |
| 24 | In 1934 , on the recommendation of Professor Bell , Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town , her school was given a studio in the College of Music and she was taken on the staff of the Faculty of Music . |
| 25 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 26 | Thus evidence was taken on the need for the bill and why it was proposed to deal with problems in a particular way . |
| 27 | The S.M.O. was of the opinion that this was the third , not second night , and that for twenty-four hours before he was knocked down the patch of consolidation had started forming in Bill Francis 's lung . |
| 28 | When the iron ore was worked out the township including the school would pack up and move on . |
| 29 | EVIL Tom Courtney was thrown down a flight of stairs after being confronted by angry fellow prisoners , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 30 | The foundations of modern archaeology were laid down in the 17th century , and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries emphasis was put on the recording of archaeological monuments , initially as part of general topographical works , but eventually as part of a study of the monuments themselves . |