Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This identity of message was recognized down the line , and had the effect that one would have expected . |
| 2 | There was that chap that was sacked up the country was n't he ? |
| 3 | Er we used to have the the works magazine that was come out every month . |
| 4 | Then she remembered her night-gown was torn down the front where Faith Caskie had ripped it . |
| 5 | In a number of cases , grain was carried up the canal to the docks , was transhipped , and promptly retraced its steps along the canal to Saul Junction where it passed onto the Stroudwater Canal . |
| 6 | Caesar was the first Roman to allow his own portrait to appear on coins minted at Rome and elsewhere in his lifetime ; his statue was carried on a litter , and set next to statues of the gods . |
| 7 | I managed to have a brief word with the rescued pilot as he was carried on a stretcher into the ambulance . |
| 8 | And for 1,500 miles it was carried on the current without power , navigational gear or a radio transmitter . |
| 9 | 1836 It was moved that the dinner which had been assessed on the public be discontinued and was carried on the casting vote of the Chairman . |
| 10 | The complementary experiment was carried out a decade ago in the laboratory of the influential German school working on the origin of life under Manfred Eigen . |
| 11 | Some of Kelly 's classmates lost the fight to hold back the tears as soon as her coffin was carried down the aisle . |
| 12 | We unlashed the mooring cables almost as the last bag of cement was carried down the gangplank . |
| 13 | AN injured climber was rescued yesterday after an SOS was picked up an aircraft flying overhead . |
| 14 | No , that was picked out the history book |
| 15 | And tobacco ash was spilt down the front of his evening shirt . |
| 16 | The following season he made 64 not out as nightwatchman against Trinidad , was moved up the order in the second innings , and responded with 188 ; a year later , in 1943–4 , also against Trinidad , he and John Goddard put on an undefeated 502 for the fourth wicket , at the time the third highest partnership in first-class cricket . |
| 17 | The noose was tightened and I was pushed up a ladder . |
| 18 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |
| 19 | This type of shift was slit down the back for ease of application and secured with back-tie draw-strings at the neck and waist ; such items were , it is assumed , readily available from the undertaker . |
| 20 | A sample of 50 schools was drawn up the Statistics Division of SOED ( one in eight of all Scottish secondaries ) giving broad representation of Scottish secondaries in general , in terms of size , geographic location , denominational status and percentages of pupils entitled to free school meals . |
| 21 | On one occasion her piano was dragged up a hillside to the door of an isolation hut , where she sang for five rather surprised soldiers . |
| 22 | Our folk up at Dalvaine and that , they spoke the Gaelic long after it was spoken down the glen . |
| 23 | The inquiry was set up a year ago by the Howard League for Penal Reform following a spate of suicides at Feltham since August 1991 . |
| 24 | The drinking water inspectorate was set up a year ago . |
| 25 | The review panel was set up a year ago under the chairmanship of Professor Ron Edwards of Cardiff University . |
| 26 | The air ambulance was set up a year ago as an experiment . |
| 27 | The kids in the band whose guitar it really was set up a look-out in The Roebuck and , of course , they spotted him . |
| 28 | In the Joint Committee that was set up the conflict was , in Hanrott 's words , ‘ played cool ’ , but it was conflict nevertheless . |
| 29 | He stopped in his perambulation and his gaze fell on the table by the window ( set too high for children to see out of ) , on which was laid out a display of local history material . |
| 30 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |