Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One room was furnished scantily , in suburban style . |
| 2 | It was furnished simply and graciously , with deep armchairs and divans . |
| 3 | It was furnished still , but it was cold , cold . |
| 4 | The air-conditioned restaurant was furnished beautifully in thirties chrome and pale grey velvet . |
| 5 | Positioning was validated fluoroscopically in six subjects , with no adjustment of tube required , and fluoroscopy was therefore not considered essential in subsequent subjects . |
| 6 | But Black , of Durranhill Road , Carlisle , was stopped again by police after his release as he drove along a narrow country lane . |
| 7 | The lift was stopped immediately . |
| 8 | As soon as the other case was reported , production was stopped immediately , until the fault was isolated and every effort was then made to trace , recover and destroy all Nightsticks from the same batch . |
| 9 | Despite a wrecked car , Wilcox actually won that race , as it was stopped shortly afterwards and awarded to him on count-back . |
| 10 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 11 | Luckily , this example of bureaucracy gone mad was stopped just in time by Kenneth Clarke , who was watching cricket at Trent Bridge and got a call on his mobile phone about Johan 's case . |
| 12 | No. 3 was directly opposite the palace , only a minute away , but he was stopped twice by tourists whose thick German accents he could n't begin to understand , and then by having to settle a violent argument between two drivers who had managed to crash while manoeuvring their cars out of their parking spaces . |
| 13 | In response to our criticisms , production of all 1.4-litre models was stopped so that front anti-roll bars could be fitted , a debacle not unknown to Ford . |
| 14 | Sandy drew breath to scream but she was stopped halfway by Alina 's clamped-down hand , which filled her mouth and lungs with the rank taste of stagnant water . |
| 15 | ‘ I was stopped all right but it was n't as simple as poor McQuaid made out . |
| 16 | Since hunting was stopped about twenty years ago , the behaviour of the seals has changed dramatically . |
| 17 | Afterwards the boy tried again but was stopped once more . |
| 18 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
| 19 | By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships . |
| 20 | But the beginning of an Anglo-American dialogue was stopped short when the Egyptians suddenly pressed Dulles in July for an answer , yes or no , on the matter of financial aid for the dam . |
| 21 | Last year , after publicity about Mead missing the English Schools Championships , the rule was amended slightly to say that a county champion could be excused missing the Inter Counties but no-one else . |
| 22 | Subsequently , the statement of claim was amended so that it was restricted to the tax assessment under s 488 , TA 1970 . |
| 23 | With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes . |
| 24 | Later the law was amended so that profits from such activities could be confiscated . |
| 25 | The 1944 Act was amended so that free milk was provided to pupils over the age of 7 only if they attended special schools or qualified on medical grounds . |
| 26 | In his Chiswick-based headquarters , where The Jimi Hendrix Exhibition was pieced together , Neil Storey explained how the project was more complex than he had first imagined . |
| 27 | The battle for Southern Hemisphere supremacy was joined again amid the resurrected dream of blue skies , braiis ( barbecues ) and rugby . |
| 28 | He was joined there by Amanda 's brother , Norton ( now Lord Romsey ) , and his fiancée , Penelope Eastwood ; and although the cousins had never been especially friendly before , a strong bond grew between them as they talked day after day , trying to make sense of it all . |
| 29 | He was joined there later by Debbie 's father and they strolled around the beautiful gardens together . |
| 30 | He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting . |