Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 … |
| 3 | It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A small machine code programme was tucked away in the computer and when called upon would produce the necessary signals to drive the servos via the ‘ user port ’ and an interface box . |
| 6 | Sunday Life has learned his filofax , containing sensitive work contact numbers , was tucked away in the glove compartment . |
| 7 | According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions . |
| 8 | The flags of all European nations were standing horizontal and cracking ominously above the hard and Lerissa , a handsome 52ft ( 15m ) classic sloop , was pitching wildly in the harbour mouth as other boats strained at their anchors . |
| 9 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |
| 10 | The Isle of Man 's Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr David Cannan , was dismissed yesterday in the Manx government 's first ever Cabinet reshuffle . |
| 11 | According to Special Branch , very violent treatment was meted out in the foyer to the men removed by the Black-shirts ; the police intervened just in time to prevent serious injury . |
| 12 | The government did not accept all these proposals : housing in particular was treated differently in the legislation from the recommendations of both the English and Scottish Commissions . |
| 13 | A and before we go into what happened once got in the flat , just tell us now who was to go where in the first instance . |
| 14 | That consciousness , as it emerged in 19th-century Europe , was situated somewhere in the quadrilateral described by the points People-State-Nation- Government . |
| 15 | Pelham 's experience in trade was recognized speedily in the Commons , for on 7 June 1641 he was named to the committee to regulate trade with Scotland . |
| 16 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 17 | Yet in racing , in export credit guarantees and elsewhere , the Chancellor was reacting late in the day to complaints that had been clearly audible for some considerable time . |
| 18 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 19 | Their management was placed directly in the hands of USSR ministries . |
| 20 | The sun still shed a great sparkle on the sea but the heat had gone from it and the dusk was gathering back in the valley . |
| 21 | Three weeks later , on the day I became Prime Minister , my first impulse was to sit down in the study which had been Harold 's and write him a letter of appreciation and grateful thanks . |
| 22 | Charles could see at first-hand the tension that was building up in the vast depressing wastelands of the inner cities , where young people had no work , no ambition , no feeling of belonging , no pride in their surroundings — nothing , in fact , to get out of bed for in the mornings . |
| 23 | Nervous pressure was building up in the United team when Irwin put a 64th-minute corner kick deep into the heart of the Southampton penalty area . |
| 24 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 25 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 26 | Jenny was helping out in the newsagent-cum-sweet-shop in the village . |
| 27 | Between 1905 and 1916 the fundamental texture of Nizan 's psyche was traced out in the drama enacted in the Nizan household by its three principal characters : Clementine Nizan , nee Metour , cast in the role of mother and wife , Pierre Marie-Joseph Nizan , cast in the role of father and husband , Paul Pierre Yves Henri Nizan , cast in the role of only son . |
| 28 | This was gathered together in the final session . |
| 29 | Feuerbach 's position was developed particularly in The Essence of Christianity ( 1841 ) , The Philosophy of the Future ( 1843 ) and The Essence of Religion ( 1853 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ I was rammed twice in the 250cc race when in the lead and then fell off later on . |