Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 3 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 4 | Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 . |
| 5 | Mrs Foster was fluttering around like a nervous bird . |
| 6 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 7 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 9 | When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room . |
| 10 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ There were more than a dozen enquiries about the tender and this was whittled down to a list of six . |
| 12 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 13 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 14 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 15 | Does it matter , though , for literary criticism whether the poetry was formed out of a period of rebellion or revolution ? |
| 16 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 18 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 24 | A deer has had to be put down after its leg was ripped off in an illegal snare . |
| 25 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The authors reported that as this project progressed interest in the teaching of study skills increased and this interest was filtering through into the primary schools sector . |
| 28 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 29 | At the hospital , Dad was propped up on a narrow bed in casualty . |
| 30 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |