Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Prayers for the safety of John Dakyn were probably necessary , as he was caught up in the religious controversies of the age . |
| 32 | Scooting down the side-aisle , she ducked past him and out of the shop , where she continued to run blindly until she was caught up against a solid chest . |
| 33 | She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband . |
| 34 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 35 | She barely had time to assimilate the sudden rapid rise and fall of his chest before her head was wrenched back with a less than gentle hand and her mouth was captured by his . |
| 36 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 37 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 38 | His shot hit the upright but Swindon , encouraged , at last began to make an impression and Bolton survived a narrow squeak as Simpson 's powerful effort was tipped over by a leaping Felgate . |
| 39 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 40 | One was doomed when a bucket of coal was tipped on to a blazing fire and the flames eroded the dust covering , ate at the brittle papier-mâché , flickered at the softness of the plastic bag . |
| 41 | Her chin was tipped up by a ruthless finger . |
| 42 | The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation . |
| 43 | For about the first 12 years of its existence the centre was carried on as an unincorporated organisation . |
| 44 | All this conversation was carried on with the greatest difficulty . |
| 45 | After Young 's death his work was carried on by the French Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion ( 1790–1832 ) . |
| 46 | He was not involved in any way with the mining that was carried on in the surrounding area , but he was greatly affected by the frequent serious and often fatal accidents suffered by the miners through premature blasting explosions . |
| 47 | Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project . |
| 48 | The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War . |
| 49 | This was carried out over a three-week period using a mixture of interviews and questionnaires covering a representative sample of persons from the CSSU and the departments . |
| 50 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 51 | An offshore spectrometric survey was carried out over the seaward extension of Geevor mine to detect additional mineralised lodes and to map the granite/killas contact ( MEG 264 ) . |
| 52 | A persistent witchhunt was carried out over the proposed women candidates within the new Clinton administration , focusing on their childcare and domestic arrangements . |
| 53 | The investigation was carried out under the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 54 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 55 | The initial study was carried out as the practical project for my MSc course in 1987 . |
| 56 | This operation was carried out as the only possible way of dealing with the menace of the drug dealers . |
| 57 | The research was carried out for a doctoral dissertation on the princely sum of £410 per annum ( this was the ‘ married woman 's ’ rate of postgraduate grant at the time , £120 lower than the full grant ) . |
| 58 | For most work completed prior to 1989 construction was carried out for the Regional Council by teams employed under the Special Measures Programme of the City of Edinburgh District Council with financial support from the former Manpower Services Commission . |
| 59 | A dynamic study of the posterior lung fields was carried out for the first 15 minutes after injecting the radiolabelled leucocytes . |
| 60 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |