Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clear NACAB anti-racism statement was formulated together with several guidance papers for advice workers on the issue . |
| 2 | Table 3.6 shows the comparison for each junction of the occasions on which it was recalled correctly with those on which it was not . |
| 3 | The village was , as she had thought , a dump , where time was whittled away in some vintage manner . |
| 4 | Nastase had sublime skills but was careering around without much discipline and direction … a powderkeg temperament … an adorable , off-the-wall rogue . |
| 5 | The company was floated shortly after that with the shares selling at six times the auditors ' valuation . |
| 6 | His custom in his latter years was to attend here at all on Sunday mornings when he would occasionally the sermon being preached by one of his curates or his nephew , Reverend . |
| 7 | He was treated badly by most of the people around him . |
| 8 | It was also beginning to vex Hal , who was treated badly by those wider than him . |
| 9 | Public aid was given only to those — the aged , the disabled , etc. — who could be supported neither by their own labour nor by that of their families . |
| 10 | Erm it 's ind , it 's independence was recognized fully by all the major European powers by eighteen thirty nine . |
| 11 | Fire is all animals ' natural enemy , no animal is gon na go through fire of its own volition , erm and again the point , just moving away from the cats , which I 'd agree , the cat was hanging on to that platform , looking very stressed , signs of its tail , course it 's not gon na jump . |
| 12 | I could n't trust the boots , and was hanging on to any hold . |
| 13 | He looked wild-eyed , and his hair was sticking up at all angles . |
| 14 | Well erm it , oh well I mean it is better in as much as it was sticking out like that |
| 15 | His own depression was compounded now with this global malaise , a process he found paradoxically satisfying ; it was acceptable to weep for the dusky seaside sparrow , but not for oneself . |
| 16 | For all he knew , Gwen was lying upstairs dead and the man in front of him was building up to another outburst . |
| 17 | For much of her first term the thrust of economic policy was regarded sceptically by many colleagues . |
| 18 | Interventions of varying intensity were necessary in six patients of the control group and three patients in the nasal oxygen group , but the procedure was completed successfully in all cases except one . |
| 19 | The Recorded Music Workshop on the 27th September was received enthusiastically by those who came and suggestions for future projects will be welcome . |
| 20 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 21 | I was weeping bitterly for most of the time . |
| 22 | ( The more detailed working of this language-game was explained earlier in this section when discussing an animal 's recognitional capacities . ) |
| 23 | The start was delayed by over half an hour because one of the health visitors had been busy through the day , and things went downhill from there . |
| 24 | But this figure can mislead , as was pointed out by many people as soon as the Fleischmann and Pons paper saw the light of day , and by some , at least , of those who had sight of their DOE application . |
| 25 | He had to make his way past people converging on the church and was pointed out by several . |
| 26 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 27 | John Regis , my arch rival at 200 metres , was walking home with some friends late one night when they were attacked by some white men who were obviously extremely drunk . |
| 28 | And because she wanted to know more , she wanted to find out all there was to find out about this dark , ancient stronghold that her ancestors had known , at times she stole out from her bedchamber after nightfall and stood listening to the night rustlings and the soft settling of the old , old timbers ( and the footsteps ? did n't she still hear the footsteps every night ? ) and thought that if only she knew the right words , or if only she had the power , she could summon the enchantments and lay bare the secrets and understand this place . |
| 29 | There was scaffolding up outside this particular one and a pair of rugged , manly types were bolting a large sign into place . |
| 30 | ‘ I suppose I read too many thrillers but in the end I 'd convinced myself you 'd got too tough and killed somebody and George was mixed up in that ! ’ |