Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [vb pp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often , it was remembered only when some chore required to be done as on the night when William Black arrested the men on the covert operation and someone was wanted to allay with a concocted story any suspicions which might be forming in the mind of Seán McNamee . |
| 2 | Everything was held to depend on this . |
| 3 | Matilda felt herself getting angrier … and angrier … and angrier … so unbearably angry that something was bound to explode inside her very soon . |
| 4 | Of course he thinks it would be better still from the point of view of justice if no one was made to compensate for emotional injury . |
| 5 | It was not ideal but it was a fait accompli and one was fated to comply with it . |
| 6 | Officially , no one was permitted to resign from B.P. ; we were presumed to know too much . |
| 7 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 8 | But one was left wondering at the decision to commit time , money and talent to this dingy piece of hokum . |
| 9 | If all the nuns were in Compline , if no one was spotted stealing over the convent walls , then the only logical conclusion was a professional assassin . |
| 10 | They were kept in the house overnight and yesterday morning one was told to go to work as normal at the west Belfast shop . |
| 11 | The strange one was booked to fly to Johannesburg for concerts but when the whole country , practically , took to the streets , he changed his mind . |
| 12 | No one was allowed to pass without a contribution : he knew everyone and covered the clubs , the pubs , the chip shops , the football ground . |
| 13 | Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities , and during the voting , he held back to see if anybody was left to vote for him . |
| 14 | We rubbed shoulders with a bride and groom at a local wedding , as anyone was allowed to wander round the church while the marriage was going on ( it was a tiny church ) . |
| 15 | There was virtually no comfort even in the royal apartments ; none of the bathrooms had running water and everyone was forced to rely on servants whose sole duty it was to provide water for washing . |
| 16 | Nothing was found relating to the Jewish Exodus roughly 5000 years ago , which probably took place further south . |
| 17 | She lost weight but nothing was allowed to interfere with her work and she regularly sewed till four or five in the morning . |
| 18 | Nothing was allowed to get in the way . |
| 19 | No-one was allowed to go through her belongings . ’ |
| 20 | Once , while a student of practical magic at Unseen University , and for a bet , he 'd slipped into the little room off the main library — the room with walls covered in protective lead pentagrams , the room no-one was allowed to occupy for more than four minutes and thirty-two seconds , which was a figure arrived at after two hundred years of cautious experimentation … |