Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 2 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 3 | Doctors said the biopsy was carried out in a different part of the brain to where the rupture of the aneurysm occurred and was not responsible for the death . |
| 4 | Her glance was drawn back to the bed again when , clearly befuddled , and with no idea how he came to be where he was , he slurred , ‘ How did I get here ? ’ |
| 5 | The Association was wound up in 1954 . |
| 6 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 7 | The more valuable emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use or re-sale ( just as many of the outpourings of Western sympathy for the orphans and destitute of Ceauşescu 's Romania were purloined by the same fat-cats in the ministries early in 1990 after the fall of their master ) . |
| 8 | Wilson 's major misfortune was that the firm of Veitch declined rapidly before 1914 , when the stock was sold off before many of his new plants had been propagated or distributed : the Arnold Arboretum had fewer difficulties with his later collections . |
| 9 | British Rail 's diesel stock was coming up for replacement and we needed to decide whether to reinvest in diesel equipment or to invest in electrification . |
| 10 | Buckinghamshire 's total book stock was going up by about forty thousand volumes a year , last year it grew just eight thousand . |
| 11 | The stranger was led back through the empty trains to the car shed pits where he could gain access to the street . |
| 12 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
| 13 | If a stranger was picked up in Ipswich . |
| 14 | The card was borne back on a silver tray . |
| 15 | A card was passed around for those present to send their good wishes for a speedy recovery . |
| 16 | Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute . |
| 17 | After the dispute , the deal was called off by both parties . |
| 18 | Larry Cummins recalled , ‘ All I remember about Wilson 's ear was that it did n't amount to much , but a big deal was made out of it . |
| 19 | And Letterworth had said that the deal was bogging down in that bloody stupid Olympic fracas and the Afghan mess , and that he did n't give a shit for politics , only for selling engines . |
| 20 | Most of the deal was carried out in New York and this contributed to an air of confusion in the music press . |
| 21 | If a deal was hammered out with the banks , an accompanying rights issue to raise up to £400m from existing private shareholders was likely next spring . |
| 22 | The deal was put through by Lord Hailey on behalf of all the major refugee bodies . |
| 23 | They are sceptical that a few extra consultants or staff grade appointments will really reduce their hours and complain that the new deal was set up by doctors ' representatives not working in hard pressed specialties . |
| 24 | The deal was set up by Ghazi Kenaan , Syria 's head of security in Beirut , who naturally took his cut off the top . |
| 25 | An experiment was carried out with a mixed age group of macaques . |
| 26 | An in vivo experiment was carried out with male Sprague-Dawley rats ( weight range 200–300 g ) as we previously reported . |
| 27 | This experiment was carried out in a dedicated growth room with walls well masked with charcoal-grey cartridge paper . |
| 28 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 29 | The article continues : ’ Competitive tendering was forced on to us and it 's put a tremendous pressure on everyone . |
| 30 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |