Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were plucked out of Bosnia in one of the mercy missions undertaken by Formby businessman Fred Willis , who has now enlisted the help of the Red Cross in an attempt to trace Jasim . |
| 2 | Several aspects of French Country Cooking were roughed out in pencil by Bobby and then worked over in ink by Minton and imprinted with his own personal style . |
| 3 | Some difficulties with this suggestion were pointed out by P A Lund in a reply published in October 1985 . |
| 4 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 5 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |
| 6 | Afternoons were given over to village leave , organised games , set walks , leisure periods and detention . |
| 7 | They visited WGPT 's Forties Road premises where presentations were given by on Production Services and on the Company 's Permanent Downhole readout instrumentation [ PDR ] . |
| 8 | As this subject could well come up again during the current academic year , the pages were downloaded on to disk , so that they could be consulted off-line without incurring further expense . |
| 9 | Yet they were tricked out of lands by Daniel Boone and others and forced to take part in the ‘ Trail of Tears ’ , the enforced march from Kentucky and Tennessee to northern Oklahoma , during which 4,000 out of 16,000 Cherokees died . |
| 10 | Though his proposals were whittled down in Congress , the Revenue Act of 1921 and later measures provided for big tax cuts on high personal incomes and the removal of the excess profit tax . |
| 11 | At about midnight when all the children were tucked up in bed we visited the Grotto . |
| 12 | But it was easier to believe in the impossible when you were tucked up in bed and half-asleep , than when you were walking the wet , comfortless streets , and the bloke you loved was on a bus going in the opposite direction , staring hopelessly out of the window , and wondering how on earth he was ever going to marry you , with no savings and going into the Army next week and a widowed mother who imagined herself an invalid and hated you for taking away her son . |
| 13 | ( A further five were referred back for lack of such sponsors ) . |
| 14 | The Squadrons of Land Sailors ( Esquadras de Navegação Terrestre ) were formed out of nostalgia for the military service . |
| 15 | When patterns were pencilled on by hand , good workwomen could earn £2 a week , although most received much less . |
| 16 | In fact , these Croydon cars were broken up at Brixton Hill , standing on Erith trucks . |
| 17 | By this time , fuel and crew costs had made them uneconomic , and despite rumours that they were to be transferred to Bispham , they were broken up in Marton Depot by 1963 , all except one car . |
| 18 | The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars . |
| 19 | Further demonstrations in the capital on March 28 , calling for the President 's resignation , were broken up by police using tear gas and stun grenades . |
| 20 | During 1989 demonstrations organized by the opposition group Democratic Union ( DU ) were broken up by police and arrests were made ; several DU members were imprisoned ( including Sergei Kuznetsov , a Sverdlovsk editor ) . |
| 21 | Several demonstrations across the country were broken up by police using tear gas during August . |
| 22 | All utterances that were more than 10 words in length were broken down into clauses of less than 10 words thereby producing a total of 115 utterances with an average of 7.07 words and 26.56 phonemes per utterance . |
| 23 | On 8 May ( VE Day ) , diplomatic relations were broken off between Spain and Germany . |
| 24 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 25 | Talks between representatives of the strikers and of the Industry and Trade Ministry were broken off on Aug. 28 , and on Aug. 31 the factory 's strike committee voted to continue the action . |
| 26 | Negotiations between the three ethnic communities in Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see p. 38849 for leaderships ] under the auspices of the EC continued in Lisbon , but were broken off on May 2 when the ceasefire was broken . |
| 27 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 28 | It states that the Croats were marched back into Yugoslavia , and it was only there that the mass-killings by Tito 's supporters began . |
| 29 | Grand prix motor cars were painted up like buses to advertise cigarettes and even contraceptives . |
| 30 | For a moment , the tangle of small brass bells and strips of red and white cloth hanging from the roof were illuminated , then they were plunged back into darkness . |