Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost 2,000 took up the invitation during a two-day open house and were taken on a guided tour route which stretched over a mile through the £1.85 billion development . |
| 2 | After his second King George , in 1959 , he had developed tendon trouble and was given nearly a year 's rest by trainer Fulke Walwyn , but if anything he was improving with age , and he had gone through the 1961–2 season unbeaten . |
| 3 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 4 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 5 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 6 | Sally lost her baby pre-term and was told only a fortnight later , ‘ Just get on with having the next one , dearie . ’ |
| 7 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 8 | Lepine had applied to the Polytechnique school of Engineering in 1986 , but was offered just a conditional place pending the completion of a chemistry course . |
| 9 | He was educated privately and , from 1868 , at Pembroke College , Oxford , where he read classics but was awarded only a pass degree , graduating BA in 1872 . |