Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 2 | The battle for Southern Hemisphere supremacy was joined again amid the resurrected dream of blue skies , braiis ( barbecues ) and rugby . |
| 3 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |
| 4 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 5 | This was repainted earlier in the year for the BR Bescot Open Day at Walsall while 0-6-0- shunter 13029 was also used for various duties around the Museum site during the course of the weekend . |
| 6 | The plan was intended principally as a confidence-building measure to promote an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue . |
| 7 | The appointment of Stewart as vice-captain , opening batsman and wicketkeeper collapsed when Gooch missed the second Test , with Blakey consequently keeping wicket in two Tests when he was intended only for the one-day internationals . |
| 8 | Lily Firth , Lily Greene the actress , née Lily Greenwood of Leeds , was to holiday not in the South of France or Austria or Switzerland , but in deepest , darkest , furthest Rumania … |
| 9 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 10 | One morning , he was struggling bravely through a particularly agonising sequence when there was a knock at the door . |
| 11 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 12 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 13 | These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration . |
| 14 | It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours . |
| 15 | The evidence on housing interiors given by the Women 's Labour League to the Tudor Walters Committee on Housing Design at the end of the War proved influential , although housing policy generally was formulated more from a fear of unrest by working class men than with the needs of working class women in mind . |
| 16 | Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century . |
| 17 | Aquileia was a Roman centre and the original basilican cathedral was erected early in the fourth century but was destroyed by Attila the Hun a few years later . |
| 18 | David Nock , who was 16 , from Leckhampton in Cheltenham , was jogging home from a disco when he died from a single stab wound to the heart . |
| 19 | She was propelled roughly along the side of the van , squeezed between its side and the traffic . |
| 20 | Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style . |
| 21 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 22 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 23 | The bending of light near a massive body is one prediction of GR , and this was checked crudely by the expedition of 1919 . |
| 24 | But after the second programme Yorkshire Television installed block heaters throughout the house in lieu of a fee , so Low Birk Hatt was heated properly for the very first time . |
| 25 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 26 | Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 . |
| 27 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 28 | The sides were set , and national positions determined , in a debate that was to continue well into the future . |
| 29 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 30 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |