Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 4 | The plan was intended principally as a confidence-building measure to promote an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue . |
| 5 | One morning , he was struggling bravely through a particularly agonising sequence when there was a knock at the door . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She obeyed , shivering , for the basement was heated only by a miserly , inefficient little oil stove . |
| 10 | Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 . |
| 11 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 12 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 13 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 14 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 15 | The bed was tucked modestly into a corner of the room . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 17 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 18 | Bluestone is not mentioned by Wesley but a Methodist Society was formed there at an early date . |
| 19 | VisionWare , based in Leeds , was formed recently as a management buy-out from Systime ( tel. : 0532 529292 ) . |
| 20 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 21 | GERMAN inflation was revised upwards to an annual rate of 4.8 p.c. yesterday as figures provided mixed news of the state of the economy . |
| 22 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 23 | When somebody tried to do so , he was treated not like a party politician challenging his leader but like a soldier threatening to desert . |
| 24 | The EDC was treated almost as an afterthought . |
| 25 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 26 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 27 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 28 | The 1917 announcement was wrung out of a reluctant and distracted Cabinet by Edwin Montagu , who saw himself at the time as the architect of a new India — an India of ‘ great self-governing Dominions and Provinces … organised and coordinated with the great Principalities … , federated by one central Government ’ . |
| 29 | Gower , when 7 , was given not-out to a caught-behind appeal against Mushtaq , and substitute Rashid Latif suddenly took off down the middle of the pitch like some Keystone Kop , arms waving , perhaps stung by a bee or heavily influenced by a certain West Indies captain who patented an onfield war-dance . |
| 30 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |