Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amy was propped up on pillows , reading an old copy of the Lady . |
| 2 | William was propped up against pillows as Carrie and Fred walked up to his bed . |
| 3 | After the defeat of the battle of Hastings the parish was given along with others to Odo , Bishop of Bayeux , half brother to William I , but at an assembly at Penenden Heath in 1076 , led by Lanfranc , Archbishop of Canterbury , the Manor was returned to the Church of St. Andrew , Rochester . |
| 4 | As the front curtain rose , the entire stage was blacked out by drapes which also concealed twelve doors at regular intervals . |
| 5 | His van was painted up with pictures of Gene Autry and Hopalong Cassidy , and he called his firm the Boot Hill and Laredo Double Glazing Company . |
| 6 | It was traced back to pigeons , feral pigeons though in th at the feeding stuffs erm , place in Liverpool . |
| 7 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 8 | Former heathland too was broken up into fields on a huge scale , as Professor Hoskins rightly stresses . |
| 9 | The concourse was large , but uninspiring , particularly as the floor area was broken up by stairways down to the tracks . |
| 10 | An acid house party attended by children as young as 12 was broken up by police yesterday . |
| 11 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |
| 12 | An attempt on May 19 to hold an opposition rally was broken up by police using tear gas , just as Conde arrived to speak . |
| 13 | The convoy of nearly two hundred new age travellers was broken up by police early this morning . |
| 14 | The trouble was broken up by bouncers . |
| 15 | However it was broken down into sub-categories and these revealed non-completion rates of around 25% for those entering with ONC/OND or with no qualifications compared with a 15% non-completion rate for those with ‘ standard ’ qualifications . |
| 16 | It was still very cold and everyone was muffled up in coats and scarves and gloves . |
| 17 | So it 's no surprise that a safety seminar for women was booked up within days of being announced . |
| 18 | They ignored the prior consultations , the use of friendship between secretariat officials and local chairmen which ensured that the business of government was carried on in ways which often responded to local needs . |
| 19 | The survey , which covered 93 of the UK 's top 500 companies and 21 financial services groups , was carried out for accountants Ernst & Young last month because of concern about level of understanding among business leaders of the issues involved in ERM membership . |
| 20 | The survey was carried out for Personnel Today magazine and its editor , Adele Kimber , says holidays are a good thing . |
| 21 | Analysis of VT2 binding efficiency was carried out with sets of mutagenized probe fragments produced on two separate occasions and gave highly reproducible results . |
| 22 | In the Turner and Rommetveit experiment ( which was carried out with children ) attentional focus was manipulated either by asking subjects a question about actor or acted-upon , or by presenting one part of the line drawing before revealing the whole drawing . |
| 23 | The presbytery there was carried out with details from his hand . |
| 24 | The vast majority of the biomedical research that made this possible was carried out on animals . |
| 25 | The study was carried out on trees of greater than 30 cm girth at breast height and it was suggested that the differences between the sites were due to the soils , the podzols of Sepilok being less fertile than those at Kuala Lompat . |
| 26 | No work was carried out on Sundays , though a watchman was appointed to keep an eye on things , being paid 1/ the day . |
| 27 | Manual adjustment of the model was carried out at intervals of the refinement . |
| 28 | The Spanish star 's tee shot was carried out of bounds by the wind , and he five-putted from only 12ft to realise every hacker 's nightmare . |
| 29 | The statue-reliquary of St Faith at the monastery of Conques was carried out to manors which the tenth- and eleventh-century monks claimed belonged to them . |
| 30 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |