Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her mind drifted back to that occasion while Pascoe was talking and she was recalled sharply when she realized he had put a question . |
| 2 | A notable casualty of the reshuffle was the Minister for Institutional Relations , Antoine Ntashamaje , who was dismissed apparently because his son had been linked to the rebel activity . |
| 3 | Withering 's interest in digitalis was aroused primarily because it promoted a flow of urine and relieved swollen , dropsical tissues of their load of water ( see chapter I ) . |
| 4 | I think I was treated differently because I 'm Black . |
| 5 | So ( for all her personal extravagance ) the principessa was regarded exactly as she regarded herself , just decently well off . |
| 6 | Murray was traced there after his phonecalls to Australia were tapped . |
| 7 | Finbar O'Doherty was cheered loudly when he mounted the stairway to address the crowd . |
| 8 | The embarrassed silence which followed was broken only when everyone turned to watch as the Simonova 's bay tractor beams started to draw the most recently captured platform through the force field . |
| 9 | To hasten this process , Bakewell rented out his bulls so that their performance was proven elsewhere before he used them in his own herd . |
| 10 | Devonport has claimed its original bid was provoked partly because it believed the navy intended to centralise nuclear refitting at Rosyth , thus undermining Devonport 's future , and is insistent that its proposal was unsolicited . |
| 11 | The beauty and clarity of our spring day was forgotten momentarily when we lumbered through a mighty ocean of dung and mud , caused by a recent and substantial visitation from the farmer 's cows . |
| 12 | Her car was parked outside where she lived , but she herself was nowhere to be found . |
| 13 | It 's alleged Cartmill was caught red-handed when his escape was barred by the automatic locking door of the shop in the village of Moy , Co Armagh . |
| 14 | Certificates were presented to each member of staff and a crate of wine was cracked open so they could celebrate . |
| 15 | No need to tell them about Charlie and getting married or the unholy row with Mama or the hell that was let loose when she told them she 'd had her medical for the WRNS and if anyone tried to stop her going … |
| 16 | According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation . |
| 17 | Complete silence was expected nightly while he took stock of the world : ‘ after supper , the paper was unfolded and the old man began reading the four pages ; woe betide if any noise or talking was indulged in by the family until the task was completed . ’ |
| 18 | Lewis 's maiden Test hundred in Madras was down-graded critically because it was made in a losing cause in England 's second innings . |
| 19 | A BABY 'S skull was fractured yesterday after he was thrown from a stolen car as it overturned in a crash . |
| 20 | The fatalism of life at work was accepted just as it was believed that they could not help themselves or , indeed , be helped . |
| 21 | She was jerked forward as he slammed on the brakes and brought the car skidding to a halt on the gravel in front of the steps . |
| 22 | JOHN Lee 's prayer was answered even though it was n't really necessary . |
| 23 | Despite the agonies of withdrawing from Empire and various undulations in economic performance , the decade of the 1950s was seen more than anything as " an age of affluence . " |
| 24 | It may be that this was done only where there was a public interest , but we have already seen that in the two areas in which trusts involved purely private interests , restitution of property and manumission , the remedies of cognitio were in any case adequate to secure specific performance . |
| 25 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 26 | Mr Vafa , 46 , claims that the imposition of an interdict in the Court of Session as part of a divorce decree ten years ago was done wrongly because his solicitor at the time failed to represent him . |
| 27 | But justice was done really cos it was n't really a back pass in the first place . |
| 28 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 29 | He was filmed on the security video as he was turned away after his friends had got in . |
| 30 | At the same time , our cleaning lady , an ex-bus conductress and union member , tried to join the same Streatham branch and was turned away because they were ‘ too busy ’ . |