Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bombing raids in the European theatre of war , grew bigger with the entry of the American Airmen , and the first of the Allied ‘ thousand bombers ’ raid on a German city ( Kohn ) was carried out on 30th . |
| 2 | The validation was carried out by first producing in report format a list of activities and associated information that appeared relevant to each functional group , then asking questions of selected staff on the basis of this list . |
| 3 | She was cheated out of last night , and though she does not know it she is going to lose tomorrow night too . |
| 4 | Joe Turi , the first to go clear in the jump-off , was pushed back to third place on Country Classics Vital . |
| 5 | The 46-year-old Exeter manager was drafted in for last month 's win over France at Wembley as the England manager cast around for a successor to the disgraced Steve Harrison . |
| 6 | BRITISH LIONS stand-off Stuart Barnes was ruled out of first Test contention in New Zealand this morning by the intervention of his half-back partner Robert Jones . |
| 7 | The leading bunch was led in for second place by Jacek Mickiewicz of Poland with another Australian , Grant Rice , third . |
| 8 | Robinson was forced off during last Saturday 's 3–0 home defeat by leaders Blackburn and Clarkson suffered his injury playing in the reserves in midweek . |
| 9 | The significance of this to our enquiry is that , when Robertson 's order was passed on by Eighth Army to 5 Corps , it was to be taken by 5 Corps — as we shall see later — to authorise the handing over of various groups of Yugoslav surrendered personnel , including the 15,000-odd Slovene , Serb and Montenegrin troops who had surrendered two days earlier and been placed in Viktring camp . |
| 10 | Then the Champion got banned for his ride on Midnight Air who was thrown out of first place after the Fillies Mile . |
| 11 | Now Hereford 's cup run was finished off by first division Nottingham Forest … they lost two nil but have boosted the bank balance with over twenty four thousand packing into the City Ground yesterday |
| 12 | The guttering blue-yellow flame within the shattered shell of the car was snuffed out at last by the rain and the storm-wind . |
| 13 | The way he was fired up for last season 's FA Cup semi-final against Portsmouth , despite knowing he was to have major heart surgery the next day showed his commitment . |
| 14 | In the big race … the womens championships … the favourite Andrea Whitcombe who was out to win for a record equalling third year in a row was beaten in to second place by Lisa York of Leicester … they raced for nearly four miles and at the finish there was just three seconds between them |
| 15 | A copy was sent on by Eighth Army at 0925 hrs on 15 May to 5 Corps for action [ KP 113 ] . |
| 16 | Gooch , though , England 's loyal and reliable banker , went for his second modest score of the match , a choker of a dismissal in that he was held down at second slip at 3.43pm , three minutes into interval time . |