Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of their demise the land was infested by the mammal-like reptiles , which had the looks and probably the habits of rats : we are the descendants of such creatures . |
| 2 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 3 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 4 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 5 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 6 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 7 | It was furnished with an ancient iron bedstead and a wooden table so decrepit that it collapsed as I walked past it . |
| 8 | Since Dornie was now out of the question , I went on to the Kintail Lodge Hotel , where I was admitted and taken up to a single room which , mercifully , was furnished with an electric fire . |
| 9 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 10 | Jehana 's mare was stopped at the far end of it , and Alexei was at her side . |
| 11 | He drove out onto Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in . |
| 12 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 13 | An exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolours from the Hermitage , which was planned for Kaliningrad , was stopped at the Latvian customs . |
| 14 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 15 | It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 . |
| 16 | I took the Klepper to eastern Slovakia in search of interesting , lively touring rivers , right up to the Russian border where further progress in this connection was stopped with a big ‘ Niet ’ . |
| 17 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 18 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 19 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 20 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 21 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 22 | A short time later , on the other side of Hereford , a motorist was stopped by a white car with a blue light on top . |
| 23 | The following morning the convoy was stopped by a one-person LAG picket . |
| 24 | That training ( and the service that should have started with the Class 317 units at the beginning of the 1982 timetable ) was stopped by an industrial dispute about bonus payments for driver-only operation . |
| 25 | He was stopped by the urgent tone of Patrick 's voice . |
| 26 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |
| 27 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 28 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 29 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 30 | The three judges each scored it 100–86 for Panamanian Duran who was stopped in the sixth round by Pat Lawler in his last fight in March , 1991 . |