Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 2 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 3 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 4 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 5 | The Rottweiler was recognized as a police dog , and though it came fourth behind three other breeds , it was a start , a start to a new career and one the breed took to with relish . |
| 6 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 7 | The development of the service for the diagnosis and treatment of the sexually transmitted diseases in Great Britain stems largely from the efforts of one man , Colonel L. W. Harrison , who , somewhat unwillingly , was posted to a Guards Regiment Hospital in Rochester Row , London , in 1909 as pathologist . |
| 8 | The discomfort was compounded by a profits downgrading by County NatWest WoodMac . |
| 9 | Once shortly after he was arrested and over the weekend when he was examined by a police surgeon . ’ |
| 10 | Shooter , described in court as a salesman , was caught after a plain-clothes police officer posed as a courier taking the first of the blackmail money to a pick-up point at Edinburgh Airport . |
| 11 | He was caught by a police radar in Lydney . |
| 12 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 13 | The abortion counselling clause was included in an appropriations bill for labour , health and human services . |
| 14 | EXAMPLE Sufficient potassium iodide solution was added to a lead(ii) nitrate solution to precipitate all the lead as lead ( I , ) iodide . |
| 15 | Before leaving school , he was interviewed by a careers officer who asked him : ‘ Do you want a job in a factory ? ’ |
| 16 | Eventually Neil was interviewed by a customs officer who , he says , ‘ Looked like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks , but unlike him was as straight on the inside as he appeared on the outside . ’ |
| 17 | The body was tracked by a police helicopter and recovered by the Mersey Inshore Rescue Service , said coroner Roy Barter . |
| 18 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 19 | 2912 built in 1942 was built as a Directors ' Saloon for the LMSR and seconded for Royal Train duty after nationalisation . |
| 20 | Keith Pringle who was shot by a police marksman after a 47-hour siege in Darlington was yesterday said to be in a ‘ stable ’ condition in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 21 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot by a police marksman three weeks ago after a 47-hour siege in which his 21-year-old ex-girlfriend Leanne Rees was taken hostage . |
| 22 | However , as STEPHEN THORPE reports , this historic match was marred by a spectators ' boycott which kept the overall crowd down to 6500 |
| 23 | The newly born boy was wrapped in a ladies jump suit . |
| 24 | The Swedish victory was forged with a doubles win by Waldner and Appelgren over England 's top pair , Prean and Alan Cooke , and ended with Persson overcoming a gallant Prean 21–18 , 21–13 . |
| 25 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 26 | I was flung into a police van , and Russell was also dragged in . |
| 27 | This designation was not without its local hostility ; the validity of the designation order was challenged by a residents ' protection society and the High Court held in favour of the objectors . |
| 28 | Isabel Lenihan , who 's 77 , was found by a police helicopter . |
| 29 | The latest was found in a clothes shop yesterday morning . |
| 30 | Haines , with an annual salary of £2,400 , was unable to pay and was consigned to a debtors ' prison . |