Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hole through which the survivors of B Shift had left the Bridge was knitting back together like cloth , the weave forming as the bulk of the mist reduced . |
| 2 | Consequently , once the motor was started , the spray was meted out indiscriminately to riverside walls , fishermen , lovers on the bank , and nettles alike . |
| 3 | She was propped up now against a heap of pillows . |
| 4 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 5 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 6 | All he wanted was to go back home to his wife and his teaching . |
| 7 | It worked out as she hoped ; Tommaso was hanging about outside in the square with a group of other young men , smoking and strolling around to join the girls drawing the evening water at the fountain ; he came near her ; to her surprise , she saw he was n't smiling , not like the others , who were laughing and exchanging remarks , between themselves , grinning strenuously as they play-acted contempt for the young women they wooed . |
| 8 | Chicago was blacked out yesterday after a freak flood caused by two million gallons of water from the Chicago river which poured through a hole in its retaining wall . |
| 9 | Her eyeballs were beginning to get hot , as though vast energy was building up somewhere inside them . |
| 10 | A splendid noisy scene was building up nicely in the breakfast room . |
| 11 | They were all coming into East Kilbride , there was b cos after all there was starting off a new town and they was building up then from it . |
| 12 | The world of the first century was marked by a deep awareness of doubt , but usually doubt was traced back only to cultural irresolution or philosophical scepticism . |
| 13 | Other raw material was flown back daily to the CIA in America and here too a special department had to be set up to cope with the volume . |
| 14 | THE management team which has built the most successful Great Britain side since the Seventies was broken up yesterday with the dismissal of the 54-year-old Les Bettinson , team manager since 1985 . |
| 15 | THE management team which has built the most successful Great Britain side since the Seventies was broken up yesterday with the dismissal of the 54-year-old Les Bettinson , team manager since 1985 . |
| 16 | This was pointed out mathematically in 1908 by W. Weinberg , and independently by the eccentric mathematician G. H. Hardy , who incidentally , as the betting book of his ( and my ) college records , once took a bet from a colleague of ‘ One half penny to his fortune till death , that the sun will rise tomorrow ’ . |
| 17 | The extreme difficulty of ruling indirectly was pointed out repeatedly by its more successful practitioners , often in terms whose very weightiness implied the triumph of virtù . |
| 18 | All , it was pointed out acidly by the headmaster , fairly useless languages ( except perhaps the German ) , but that was his lookout . |
| 19 | As was pointed out earlier in this chapter , this is not necessarily bad , particularly when extra resources are needed for capital investment programmes . |
| 20 | Fourthly , it was pointed out sensibly in Littlewoods by both Lord Denning MR and Megaw LJ that a clause made " inter rusticos " ( ie without legal help on either side ) can be properly construed in the light of the way in which both parties thought it would be likely to be interpreted . |
| 21 | I was walking through here to the office . |
| 22 | She was walking on ahead up the narrow path now , he following behind pushing his bike , when he said , ‘ Your people live here ? ’ |
| 23 | And by the time the workers ' movement revived in 1902 , the energy of activists was caught up both in Party organization and in the challenge posed by the burgeoning liberal and neo-populist movements . |
| 24 | Virginia pushed agitated hands through her hair , forgetting it was caught up neatly in a high top-knot . |
| 25 | Carefully Merrill took off her dress and shook it in case the earring was caught up somewhere in its folds . |
| 26 | The weaving yarn was caught down randomly across the row , but in a different way on adjacent rows , and in such a way that the design was largely floats ( swatch 3 , card 3 ) . |
| 27 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 28 | WASHED-OUT Britain was mopping up yesterday after one month 's rain fell overnight … yet we 're STILL in the middle of a drought . |
| 29 | It was carried on well underneath Levers Water but an alteration of the country rock into a " clayey character " led to impoverishment of the vein . |
| 30 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |