Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 2 | A Bf110D night fighter of the newly arrived 1/NJG 3 was lost over the island on 17th but it is uncertain whether this fell to the A.A. guns or was shot down by Plt.Off . |
| 3 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 4 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 5 | ATTEMPTING to unravel the fate of a Luftwaffe bomber that was shot down during 1940 . |
| 6 | It does not have this appearance , however , and it may simply be a copy that updates but generally reproduces one that was written in about the 1270s by or for Richard of Haldingham . |
| 7 | He is believed to have acted as a kind of broker for that dangerous spy-ring that was broken up in Holland last year . |
| 8 | The old man 's chair was placed in a dormer window that was glassed in on three sides . |
| 9 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 10 | Another of the benefits of the travelling team system was the camaraderie that was built up between the players , all of whom were effectively competing with each other for Davis Cup recognition . |
| 11 | There is no point in a defendant blaming his defective brakes if he was going so fast that nothing could have stopped him , or in blaming a puncture if he was driving on a tyre that was worn down to the canvas . |
| 12 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 13 | The idea was that Davis would be the anchor man , the resident musician , and every week we would have one paid performer who would be highlighted as performer of the week , a tradition that was kept up throughout the history of the folk club and the Arts Lab . |
| 14 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 15 | The excitement that was building up inside her had nothing to do with the fact that Ace Barton was probably just a few feet away from her , she told herself as she tried desperately hard to try and disentangle from the different voices one she hoped to recognise . |
| 16 | But if , as in the present case , all he can say is : ‘ I saw him once in Peckham High Street and someone told me his name was Joseph Fergus ’ then there is obviously a weak link in the case : how is it to be shown that the accused is the same man that was pointed out to the witness as Fergus ' ? |
| 17 | The team that was made up of the remnants from Roxburgh 's original squad — and three of those conscripted to compensate for nine weekend call-offs — distinguished themselves at Ibrox and none more so than Duncan Ferguson , of Dundee United . |
| 18 | Jabberwocky is a poem that was made up in Wonderland and it describes some of the wonderful creatures to be seen there . |
| 19 | Well in that case I would n't put him on er on a job that was made out on site but I would keep him in the |
| 20 | ‘ Or was it just your way of halting a situation that was getting out of control ? ’ |
| 21 | They glanced at Tabitha encumbered with Perks , forcing their claws from her arms , standing on one foot trying to shake one that was hanging on to her leg . |
| 22 | What what the government , what the erm the consortium and paper 's about er , is improving the , the identification band that was hanging over of of health care , once that recipe is will get much larger consortium er , it 's much widespread of er , devotion , expertise er , er professionalism in in assessing health needs er think about one of those areas that have been saved from in West Essex over the last over the last few years and by going into a much larger group with more resources erm , there will , they will be able to actually er work er far , far more effectively in sorting out what 's actually needed . |
| 23 | I would just like to quote from a circular that was sent round to every resident in South Milford by the Parish Council . |
| 24 | There was no reason , however , to link the unrest that was brewing up in the country with the Kamalian dictator . |
| 25 | And er on your , on the better shoe , like you what we call , might call a Sunday shoe , you 'd have a a rubber heel put on , I do n't mean just a a complete heel but a round disc that was screwed on to your heel , if I can explain that to you . |
| 26 | At least that was something that was done out with the normal course of duty , so like I think . |
| 27 | He caught up with her on the far side of the teahouse , in an area that was roped off for the staff 's use only . |
| 28 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 29 | Very sensible , given the gossip that was whirling up around their heads . |
| 30 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |