Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Turner , a computer installation manager from Lower Earley , near Reading , Berks , was stopped in his white Astra . |
| 2 | as if this was not enough , he was joined in his mad reverse by a colleague . |
| 3 | Mrs Ruddock was joined by her two children , her mother and father and sisters Lynsey and Rachel Bennett . |
| 4 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 5 | Thus Stirling took himself to Jalo where he was joined by his depleted force who were flown in . |
| 6 | She was nineteen and choked by the immensity of her reaction to this man , unable to breathe or stir , and panicked by the conviction that Luke was seeing into her secret self , invading , bent on vandalising and stealing . |
| 7 | The four-man team from the democratic Labour movement claim more than £1 million given by Russian miners , was intended for their striking British colleagues . |
| 8 | Postmasters could , and did , ensure that priority was given to the letter advising of these developments which was intended for their own particular political friend in London , and that his enemies ' letters would be delayed until the next post . |
| 9 | He was struggling with his second mouthful when Buddie came to his assistance . |
| 10 | Bob was circling on his own horse , waiting for me . |
| 11 | The Frenchman 's bullet pierced the brain of the buffalo just behind its left ear , and the impact twisted its neck and threw the animal down in a swirl of dust only ten yards from where Joseph was kneeling beside his terrified mother . |
| 12 | ‘ That observation was aligned to your personal subjectivity , of course , with which I feel familiar , ’ the computer appended . |
| 13 | His right elbow was leaning on the arm of the chair and his wide forehead was resting in his right hand as if he were suffering from migraine , troubles , fatigue . |
| 14 | There were seven levels of spirituality , Hawk had told her , and she must ascend through them all before she was readied for her appointed task . |
| 15 | It is time that envy was reinstated in its rightful place , as one of the basic data of individual and social psychology . |
| 16 | ‘ I can not say that it was withdrawn for its political content . ’ |
| 17 | This reasoning alone casts doubt on the idea that the Earth 's own moon was formed from its orbiting dust grains . |
| 18 | ‘ You look lovely , ’ said Camille , who was clad in her invariable faded and ripped blue jeans . |
| 19 | Gwendolen was clad in her dark blue serge travelling dress , this being the nearest to mourning she could manage . |
| 20 | It was a chilling thought that the very circumstances she was using for her own purpose accorded only too well with the Empress 's schemes . |
| 21 | On 12 November he was out-voted in his own Commission and the document was sent to the printer . |
| 22 | Port Essington , the most remote , dangerous , and perhaps most promising , hunting ground left on his itinerary , and which Gould himself had intended to explore before his triumphant visit to Namoi , was designated to his capable assistant Gilbert , who was staying an extra year in Australia . |
| 23 | But it was a harsh result for Queens Park Rangers who , despite all their possession and smart passing , finished the game with 10 men when defender Alan McDonald was dismissed for his second bookable offence . |
| 24 | Lowe restored the three-goal balance before Calderwood was dismissed for his second bookable offence and Craig Maskell fired in Swindon 's 80th-minute consolation goal . |
| 25 | Nicholson 's interest in writing was re-awakened by his scriptwriting assistance on The Terror , and his next project was a screenplay in which he was encouraged by Roger Corman , who thought it was a good idea because though he personally felt Nicholson showed great potential as an actor , others around him did not always agree . |
| 26 | My friend 's face was reddened by her red coat . |
| 27 | But she was diverted from her own reaction by Arthur . |
| 28 | He begged Miriam to hurry back and find out how the old man was faring under his own treatment . |
| 29 | I do n't know how he guessed ‘ t was me with Ellen the other day , but he swore vengeance three years ago when he was banished to his smaller estate and forced to hand Tracy to the Sheriff of Gloucester , and he does n't forget . ’ |
| 30 | He may have been West Midlands Chief Constable when it 's squad was exposed for its creative-writing skills , but he was not to blame . |