Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 2 | The fund had acted as a conduit for the money from ivory trade associations in Japan for one year , but this was stopped by Mr Lapointe , Mr Bohlen said , because he wanted the money to go directly to the secretariat . |
| 3 | In the dining car I was stopped by Xanthe Lorrimore who was sitting alone at a table looking morose . |
| 4 | This resulted in a protest on the inspection day , when the official car was stopped in Church Street by two cycles stuck in the offending rails . |
| 5 | Two days later the car was stopped in North Yorkshire and youths from Darlington and Richmond were arrested . |
| 6 | Two days later the car was stopped in North Yorkshire and youths from Darlington and Richmond were arrested . |
| 7 | He won an initial victory in 1386 , but his cosmopolitan army was no match for Sultan Murad I when battle was joined at Kosovo Polje on Vidovdan ( St Vitus ' Day ) , 1389 . |
| 8 | There was a sixth form at St Aidans which was joined with St John Fishers School 's sixth form . |
| 9 | She was joined by Maxine Finch from Cheltenham . |
| 10 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 11 | Georges Enescu conducted the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra in Rodrigo 's Concerto d'été , with the young Christian Ferras as violin soloist : the coupling was Ivan Semenoff 's Double Concerto , where Ferras was joined by Pierre Barbizet ( piano ) , with the composer conducting . |
| 12 | He was joined by Anthony Fry , corporate finance partner in the Crawley office . |
| 13 | Caroline Little 's first recreational class in Rowlands Castle village hall led to many more in the surrounding area of HAMPSHIRE especially when she was joined by Anne Locke and Sarah Smith ( both now living and teaching Medau in France ) and Wendy Middleton . |
| 14 | The group was joined by Hugo Bathurst , the firm 's immensely tall specialist in medieval artefacts . |
| 15 | He was joined by Sarah Measham from Swindon Branch , Michael Jones of Trust and Taxation , London and Karen Bridge of the Department of Social Security , Swindon . |
| 16 | In Tolmezzo Domanov was joined by General Peter Krasnov , who had played a prominent part in the Russian Civil War , first as Ataman of the Don Cossacks and later in the Baltic States . |
| 17 | With her sharp pen and keen observation she was joined by Karl von Wiegand for the first Atlantic crossing voyage . |
| 18 | She was joined by lithographer Lisa Rhodes from Barlaston . |
| 19 | Cojuangco , who was Aquino 's cousin , a former Marcos " crony " and leader of another wing of the NP , was joined by Senator John Osmena ( Emilio Osmena 's brother ) on Feb. 4 and was also backed by a splinter group from the Liberal Party . |
| 20 | The BBC Good Food team was joined by Derek Andrews from the Meat and Livestock Commission , and the tasting was held at the Commercial Gas Centre in London . |
| 21 | In this he was joined by Dennis Hopper , who was equally ecstatic . |
| 22 | The headmaster 's little group of himself , Septimus Coffin and Penny Warlock was joined by Mr McWhirter , limping late into school on his way to his first class . |
| 23 | He was joined by Evelyn Waugh and F. W. F. Smith , second Earl of Birkenhead [ qq.v . ] . |
| 24 | That year he was joined by Edward Wakelin , who took charge of the workshop . |
| 25 | Amaranth was joined by Charles Harvey , who had accompanied her to the party and had been circulating among his colleagues . |
| 26 | Another quintet , by Dutch composer Tristan Keuris , this time for clarinet and strings in which the Gabrieli was joined by Janet Hilton , was less personally characterised . |
| 27 | Presently she was joined by Margaret Lacey . |
| 28 | As the army swung westwards by the forest below the Dwarf Hold of Everpeak it was joined by Forest Goblin tribes riding giant spiders and whooping their savage war cries . |
| 29 | He was joined by Richard Van Allan as the Grand Inquisitor , and these two bass-baritones supplied the power and nobility which had been wanting . |
| 30 | Mayle was joined by Julia Fosker left , manager of the book department of J H Clarke and Company , and Michelle Parkhurst who bought it . |