Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Fame was joined by the big Mac who , fag in hand , warbled his way through ‘ Candleland ’ and , for the climax , Collins returned for a sensitive run through the Velvet 's ‘ Pale Blue Eyes ’ . |
| 32 | Fame was joined by the big Mac who , fag in hand , warbled his way through ‘ Candleland ’ and , for the climax , Collins returned for a sensitive run through the Velvet 's ‘ Pale Blue Eyes ’ . |
| 33 | The stripping traffic warden was joined by the stripping nun in the Kissogram adverts . |
| 34 | He took with him a secret report which was leaked to the Japanese press . |
| 35 | The report was leaked to the British television programme , This Week . |
| 36 | An EC monitors ' document , which was leaked to the Yugoslav press on Dec. 2 , accused the JNA of " brutal aggression " and called on the EC to use force against it . |
| 37 | A letter from Baker to the then Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Alptemocin was leaked in the Turkish press and was shown to urge " flexibility " and " a more conciliatory attitude " on the Turkish side . |
| 38 | On Oct. 25 Costa Rica was ratified as the 100th member of the General Treaty on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 39 | The Brioni agreement was ratified by the Croatian parliament on July 9 , and by the Slovenian parliament on July 10 . |
| 40 | The Treaty on the Final Settlement with respect to Germany covering the external aspects of unification was ratified by the new Bundestag on Oct. 5 and by the Bundesrat ( upper house of German parliament ) on Oct. 8 . |
| 41 | As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this , so he avoided prosecution . |
| 42 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 43 | She studied it carefully as though it were some unfamiliar object she was seeing for the first time . |
| 44 | This letter was prefixed to the second volume of Leapor 's verse published in 1751 . |
| 45 | The book was intended as the unpretentious account of a Devon lad who has just kept on writing and then reading the news . |
| 46 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 47 | I was intended for the religious life . |
| 48 | When he was transferred to Jakarta at the time of growing tension between Britain and Indonesia , there were ominous signs that action was intended against the British Embassy . |
| 49 | He was plunged into the commercial side of the business , first as deputy regional sales manager for ICI 's Southern Region and later — in 1963 — as commercial director of the Plastics Division . |
| 50 | Finally , he is drawn to the essence of Muir 's genius which he sees as that of ‘ the sensibility of the remote islander ’ , and the words that follow give one final transformation of the savage and city motif , when he describes Muir as ‘ the boy from a simple primitive offshore community who then was plunged into the sordid horror of industrialism in Glasgow , who struggled to understand the modern world of the metropolis in London … |
| 51 | The Test match at Old Trafford , which had been packed with stirring deeds , was plunged on the fourth evening into hideous disarray . |
| 52 | Her peer group was struggling with the male menopause , of course , but the sting of rejection had been no less sharp . |
| 53 | Franco was irritated by the Tripartite Note but , ultimately , it reassured him . |
| 54 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 55 | The cast was rather good , featuring Bill Nighy and his floppy blond hair and a very svelte-looking Charlotte Cornwell , though I was irritated by the unsympathetic little-and-large duo at the centre , with Janet McTeer towering above the tubby little Imelda Staunton ( as I recall , the heroine of the book hunted alone ) . |
| 56 | Finally I was enrolled at the Royal College of Physicians . |
| 57 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 58 | The fifth , a woman , was remanded on the same charge yesterday .. |
| 59 | The nineteenth century anxiety about the centrality of sex in people 's lives was redirected towards the burgeoning physical potentialities of young people . |
| 60 | Although he died around 1307 , his memory is preserved on the Langtoft Cross which was erected by the last Sir Tatton Sykes of Sledmere on the small green at the southern end of the village . |