Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 2 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The kids in the band whose guitar it really was set up a look-out in The Roebuck and , of course , they spotted him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In April , I was taken on a tour of three of the modern French resorts : Les Arcs , Valmorel and Les Menuires . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | EVIL Tom Courtney was thrown down a flight of stairs after being confronted by angry fellow prisoners , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 10 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 11 | ‘ I was beaten up a lot by my aunt . |