Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [vb pp] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was dragged down the hard , concrete steps on to the pavement . |
| 2 | Dad said I should wait until it stopped snowing so hard , so I watched from the window , and before very long it did ease and I was sent down the cellar for the fuel . |
| 3 | I do n't think so because it 's in the main street called street and I was taken over the first day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was an East End boy myself ; I was brought up the hard way . |
| 6 | At the end of 1986 I was put on the waiting list and stopped work . |
| 7 | Erm I then , erm sent a memo to the t erm County er Clerk of the Council and erm applied for upgrading and erm so I was then taken , I was put on the permanent staff . |
| 8 | I also had a plaster of Paris cast on my leg ( which had been injured in a fall some weeks before ) and consequently had some difficulty in walking , I was put on the Regimental Mini Bus which was run purely to ferry married personnel to their married quarters after functions . |
| 9 | She sits stunned , as if she was dragged out the same water , half-drowned , an hour ago and has n't got over the cold . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A man used to hand it back in when the bus ran in and it was given out the next day . |
| 12 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 13 | However , what is slightly more problematic than the end of the prosecution is why it was brought in the first place . |
| 14 | Our folk up at Dalvaine and that , they spoke the Gaelic long after it was spoken down the glen . |
| 15 | In it was set down the ‘ The Fundamental Purpose Of The United States ’ and ‘ The Fundamental Design Of The Kremlin' together with their ‘ Underlying Conflict In The Realm Of Ideas And Values ’ . |
| 16 | It 's easy to say he was led up the garden path by a couple of pointed media questions , but I do n't accept that . |
| 17 | He was lowered down the main shaft and once underground tried to make his way to the area in which the missing men had been working or to any passageway in which they could have sought refuge . |
| 18 | He was put on the waiting list for insertion of grommets . |
| 19 | Doctors tried out different medications to ease Glenn 's condition but tests showed his heart muscle was damaged and he was put on the waiting list for a transplant . |
| 20 | He was taken on the indispensable visit to Holford Glen , and it was there , seated by the side of the brook , that the brief exchange took place which Coleridge was still repeating in his old age : ‘ Citizen John , ’ Coleridge remarked , ‘ this is a fine place to talk treason in ! ’ |
| 21 | The colonel or general or whatever he was came down the platform . |
| 22 | 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 . |