Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow the virtual reality had overflowed the confines of that simulated chamber , and was taking over the entire broadcast . |
| 2 | It had also lost around £300,000 pounds and was staving off a visit from the official receiver . |
| 3 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 4 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When I entered our room I found Mum had down two more vases and was sorting out a pile of pawn tickets . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ I wanted to sign them both and was sorting out the work permit side of it when I was dismissed . |
| 8 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 9 | He was made justiciar and chamberlain of both north and south Wales and was to take over the offices of constable and steward of royal lands in Wales as they fell vacant . |
| 10 | A moment later he had returned , and was holding out a balloon glass containing an inch of brandy towards her . |
| 11 | He came across it raiding his fruit garden , unwisely wounded it with buckshot , and was chased up a tree for his trouble . |
| 12 | And then he 'd waited there , too ashamed to face other nomes , until the car went back to wherever it came from , and had got off , and was living out the rest of his life quietly and without any fuss . |
| 13 | She had been making a cup of coffee and was leaning over a lit ring on the gas cooker to put the kettle on . |
| 14 | He was quite near Philip now and was climbing up the bank towards the spot where Philip had thrown the stone . |
| 15 | He left the Operations Room and was running up the Pit transport belt when Cheryl Russell swung in from a side corridor and very nearly cannoned into him . |
| 16 | In a minute she had rushed from the house and was running down the garden . |
| 17 | A vote was taken on this and was carried on a decisive majority . |
| 18 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 19 | Father Crispin had unfortunately just knocked over a wine cup and was cleaning up the mess with a napkin . |
| 20 | Jim had left , moved on to London and was heading up a new Rapid Response Unit there in connection with HEMS , the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service . |
| 21 | ‘ The priest was so preoccupied he did n't see the van and was heading up the ramp when I stopped him . ’ |
| 22 | She had drawn the curtains at the house the previous evening and was carrying out a routine check at about 7.30 am when she saw the smashed back porch . |
| 23 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
| 24 | Clare was let off the residential weekend which is a normal part of the selection process and was taken on the strength of her interview and written application . |
| 25 | Denied its usual egress , the river had burst its banks and was pouring down the fire-ravaged streets . |
| 26 | He liked to buy their food ; he even enjoyed cooking it sometimes , and was putting on a little weight . |