Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each building , one end was partitioned off for single girls , the other end for single men , and the middle section was for families . |
| 2 | Twenty-seven years after the Watts riots , nothing had changed , and a new generation was lashing out in blind rage . |
| 3 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 4 | She 'll go up up the path and all I could see was this cat , and it was hanging on for dear life up this big tree and there |
| 5 | McMillan was stopped in the eighth round because his left arm had been viciously dislocated from its shoulder socket — but at the time our Colin was hanging on for grim life . |
| 6 | ‘ While we were being taken there , one of the gunmen asked me why I was hanging out with white guys . |
| 7 | At the Port Lilla was placed back on narrow gauge track for the journey up to the Quarry . |
| 8 | The readiest means of making money was to fall back on private tutoring . |
| 9 | Her greatest luxury in life was to sit down with baked beans on toast and watch television . |
| 10 | Her heart was crashing around like Big Ben about to strike . |
| 11 | The issue was referred up to Joint Industrial Council level and a meeting has taken place under the Chairmanship of Mr. Peter Smith , Q.C . |
| 12 | He was cheered along by proud parents and his then girlfriend , Rosanne . |
| 13 | A demonstration led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I on April 12 was broken up by Israeli police using tear gas ; demonstrations continued on a daily basis . |
| 14 | Subject-matter , in the Skinnerian teaching machine , was broken down into small steps which built upon one another into a great complexity , the student making successive responses and receiving the reinforcement of immediate confirmation at each stage . |
| 15 | Expenditure was broken down into current and capital components . |
| 16 | The grant was broken down for individual lines , as with the pre-1974 British system ( RENFE 1984a : 55–7 , 82 ) . |
| 17 | The resemblance was pointed out by Christian Bernard , director of the Villa Arson in Nice in last month 's Giornale dell'Arte , our parent publication . |
| 18 | He had an open mind and said there were pluses and minuses and for it , I think if it was pointed out in future years , that an extra mil one point four million pounds could be available for school budgets he would look at it perhaps a little differently . |
| 19 | This was pointed out in clear terms in a case which merits more attention than it sometimes receives , namely , Reg. v. Heston-Francois [ 1984 ] Q.B . |
| 20 | The aim was to report back with bold proposals for the more efficient and effective trial of long fraud cases . |
| 21 | The marble floor was scattered about with individual rugs . |
| 22 | Then there I was come back from ante-natal and it was blown clean away . |
| 23 | I knew right then you were the one that I was caught up in physical objection but to my satisfaction baby you were more than just a phase . |
| 24 | But instead , the company found itself unable to deliver the vehicles and claimed it was caught out by fluctuating exchange rates . |
| 25 | One is the magnanimous view that the DES was caught out by economic circumstances and a declining birth rate and that circumstances combined to overthrow its carefully planned reorganization . |
| 26 | But in 1988–89 , Amstrad was caught out by massive overstocking . |
| 27 | In Britain alone , Glasgow St Enoch 's was torn down in European Architectural Heritage Year ( 1975 ) ; Birmingham Snow Hill was allowed to rot for years and finally demolished on safety grounds , epitomizing a technique in all too frequent use — deliberate and wanton neglect given as a justification for removal . |
| 28 | Up to about 1730 most of this enclosure was carried through by private agreements between the owners of the land in question . |
| 29 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 30 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |