Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harriet 's drawing room , the equivalent of Rose Cottage 's humbler living room situated in the front of the building , was furnished with a mixture of modern comfortable easy chairs and several nice old pieces , a Victorian roll-top desk and a little Regency card table among them . |
| 2 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 3 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 4 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 5 | It was furnished in a style which was new to the tall boy . |
| 6 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 7 | The nuns are young because fresh recruitment — of monks as well as nuns — was stopped during a decade of suppression and allowed only after reform in 1981 initiated by the then Communist Party secretary-general , Mr Hu Yaobang . |
| 8 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 9 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 10 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 11 | She 'd almost started out , but she was stopped by a touch on her arm . |
| 12 | It was stopped by a passenger , Mr. Leonard Tofield , of Elmers End Road , who strained his wrist applying the hand brake . |
| 13 | Along the route he was stopped by a dwarf and led into the mountain , where he was told to empty his grain sacks and fill them with gold . |
| 14 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 15 | ‘ I was stopped by a catch fence at the field which undoubtedly saved me . ’ |
| 16 | Forty thousand pounds worth of the drug was found in a car that was stopped in a routine check . |
| 17 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 18 | Forty thousand pounds worth of the drug was found in a car that was stopped in a routine check . |
| 19 | They were seized shortly after 8 p.m. last night when a BMW heading south on the M5 motorway was stopped in a routine police check between Junctions 13 and 14 near Stinchcombe . |
| 20 | His mother bought the property in 1625 and the family move into it was hastened by an outbreak of the plague in London . |
| 21 | The Attorney-General was joined as a respondent to the application because he had declined to grant his fiat under section 13 of the Coroners Act 1988 , but at the hearing he was released from the proceedings with the consent of all parties . |
| 22 | My patience is draining like water from a colander , but the guy called Malcolm appears at her side so fast you 'd think he was joined on a spring . |
| 23 | Spare Rib was already well established , and was joined for a period by the Leveller , another collective magazine , and the East End News , which produced the first attempt to appeal to ‘ the masses ’ of East London by dressing up Right-On concerns in chirpy Chas'n'Dave-style modernized Cockney . |
| 24 | He made the turn in one under par and was joined in a battle with the Spanish machine Jose Miguel and a few other golfers for the places from third downwards . |
| 25 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 26 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |
| 27 | She was stalked by one small girl who was joined by a boy , until , keeping a distance , a group of silent lint-haired children followed . |
| 28 | Five minutes later , he was joined by a UDA officer who had just been arrested . |
| 29 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 30 | His main challenger , Justice Minister Claudio Martelli ( PSI former deputy secretary-general ) , was joined by a number of senior party colleagues including Rino Formica , the former Finance Minister , and 22 PSI deputies . |