Example sentences of "[noun sg] that was [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On top was the Queen with Princess Anne in a pushchair and Paul McCartney as Dad , and here was one I had near the beginning about being in a space-ship — Brian and me were weightless and floating around , and what we had to do was to get some stability by getting hold of this firework , a sort of Catherine wheel that was going round and round and showering sparks in our faces , so we closed our eyes and a fire-fanged beast roared flames at us and burned a hole in the space-ship and I fell , still with my eyes tight shut , out into the bottomless black void . |
| 2 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 3 | Yeah , cos Michael 's name went off to that batch that was sent out . |
| 4 | In the struggle and confusion that was going on in my heart I knew that he loved me and I loved him , but I also knew that I must leave him ! |
| 5 | ATTEMPTING to unravel the fate of a Luftwaffe bomber that was shot down during 1940 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The book is based on research that was carried out in British Rail and RENFE between 1983 and 1986 . |
| 8 | Very sensible , given the gossip that was whirling up around their heads . |
| 9 | I am concerned about the contents of , lack of objectivity of and lack of thoroughness in the study that was carried out by the Environmental Advisory Unit of Liverpool University Ltd. for the Government and the promoters of the Bill , Cardiff Bay development corporation , when there was still a private Bill , in preparation for the Government 's hybrid Bill , which was laid before the House on Tuesday . |
| 10 | that 's his car that was smashed up . |
| 11 | That 's that car that was smashed up , you saw . |
| 12 | Ah if if your getting three and tanner per pound for every pound that was taken out on your book , say four hundred pound , three and tanner to the pound . |
| 13 | In its earliest history the building housed the guardian of the eastern gate , but it was taken over by the Fontana family and completely remodelled , a reshaping that was carried out with all the grace of Renaissance art . |
| 14 | Then , with his eyes fixed on hers , in the light that was shining through to the bed , he gently let the material of her only covering fall down to below her waist . |
| 15 | When the Mary arrived off Mogadishu , the master refused to enter the port because he considered it unsafe on account of the fighting that was going on there . |
| 16 | It was n't a red-hot knife , it 's just simply that the surgeon had taken this knife , started to carve her abdomen open , and the heat part of the heat was the actual blood that was coming out of this wound . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough showed more controlled football against a side that was booed off at half-time by the home crowd but which stepped up pressure after the break , only to find Boro 's defence holding firm . |
| 18 | She wore spectacles and had fine auburn hair that was swept back untidily into a bun . |
| 19 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 20 | They watched Marie as she trailed down the steps by the artificial waterfall that was lit up at night with pink and green floodlights . |
| 21 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 22 | An army camp that was set up to support the Normandy landings and has become the lynchpin of the British Army is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 23 | Karloff recalled the chaos that was going on around him : ‘ When we started filming , the removal men came to take away the sets . |
| 24 | It was not only other ancient literature that was opened up for new understanding by the Renaissance : the Bible too began to be read with new eyes , eyes no longer focused simply by the authoritative teaching of the church . |
| 25 | The curriculum that was sketched out seemed ludicrously inadequate . |
| 26 | The old man 's chair was placed in a dormer window that was glassed in on three sides . |
| 27 | And then , finally , out of sight but only fifty or sixty yards from this room in the field next the garden , there lies buried the main street of the old village that was wiped out by the Black Death . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For the most part , the growth of this dome was accompanied by intermittent Vulcanian activity , responsible for the loud explosions heard in St Pierre and for the ash that was showered down on the town before and after the fateful 8 May . |
| 30 | A mistress in a plum-coloured dress began to teach them sewing so that later on they would be able to help with needlework that was taken in . |