Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 2 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 3 | Jonna opened his mouth to speak but was stopped by his father 's upraised hand . |
| 4 | Her tremulous voice was stopped by his mouth closing on hers in a deep , sensual kiss which rocked her off her feet until she felt there were no bones in her body at all . |
| 5 | Child labour was stopped before your century drew to its end . |
| 6 | She was used to her old mistress 's pallor , to the skeleton thinness , to the heavy , bruised-looking eyes but walking into her bedroom on the beautiful summer 's morning and looking towards the bed she was stopped in her progress and forced to control the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips . |
| 7 | Zeinab was stopped in her tracks . |
| 8 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 9 | But on the Stock Exchange the shares boom was stopped in its tracks after the Bank of England warned there would be no immediate cut . |
| 10 | With extremely heavy losses , the advance of the 77th Brigade over Talou Ridge was stopped in its tracks . |
| 11 | Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify . |
| 12 | One of the boarders was a clergyman , the Reverend Baron from Cheshire , and he , finding her at every turn with the Bible open , praised her devotion , which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks . |
| 13 | Peter Turner , a computer installation manager from Lower Earley , near Reading , Berks , was stopped in his white Astra . |
| 14 | Prosecuting , Gareth Davies said Harbison had excess alcohol in his breath when he was stopped in his car by police on the A45 between Barrow and Bury St Edmunds . |
| 15 | He had been trying to steal silently away from the post-lunch chatter , but was stopped in his tracks at the foot of the great staircase as Sheila , glass in her left hand , laid the crimson-nailed fingers of her right hand along his lapel . |
| 16 | Mrs Iris Marr , prosecuting , told the court Robert Adams , 43 , of Coggeshall Road , Feering was stopped near his home on January 8 . |
| 17 | Watched by landlord of the Holts Brewery Inn , Tony Stanton , she was joined on her visit by other representatives from Czechoslavkia and councillors and officials from Sandwell Borough Council . |
| 18 | The Princess , who is herself a veteran of the 1976 Montreal Olympics , was joined on her tour by other members of the International Olympic Committee and the chairman of the British Olympic Bid , Bob Scott . |
| 19 | At a quarter to nine he was joined in his office by Kersey . |
| 20 | as if this was not enough , he was joined in his mad reverse by a colleague . |
| 21 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 22 | Harper , 21 , went to the barn for sex with Rebecca Harper , 17 , who is no relation , and was joined by her sister Emma and two friends , Bristol Crown Court heard . |
| 23 | Mrs Ruddock was joined by her two children , her mother and father and sisters Lynsey and Rachel Bennett . |
| 24 | Thus Stirling took himself to Jalo where he was joined by his depleted force who were flown in . |
| 25 | After an eventful journey to Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides , off the north-west coast of Scotland , he was joined by his younger brother , aged around 23 , James Keith , who had travelled through France to Paris like a military pied Piper , collecting Jacobites as he went , before embarking on a little 25-ton ship at Le Havre to sail round the west coast of Ireland . |
| 26 | Ramo Besic was joined by his wife and three sons shortly before Christmas . |
| 27 | When the Black Prince announced measures against him , Armagnac first appealed to Edward III ; on receiving an unfavourable response , he took the matter further and appealed to the king of France , Charles V. In this he was joined by his nephew , the lord of Albret , who lodged a similar grievance against the Black Prince . |
| 28 | At Doncaster the king was joined by his esquire , Gloucester 's associate John Pilkington , who lent him 100 marks . |
| 29 | In about 1862 he was joined by his brother James . |
| 30 | Bill Johnson was joined by his wife Marie for his retiral presentation . |