Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would say that if a person is locked up from that time at night , there 's circumstances , their perhaps observation for their own safety , erm any body else that can be trusted at night sanitation are not locked in , they have the facilities to go to the toilet during the night , I mean this person that 's just said must of obviously been ob observation or was locked up for a reason . |
| 2 | The eyes were bright blue and heavily mascaraed in navy and the woman wore a pink ribbon in loosely permed hair that was coloured almost to a shade of orange . |
| 3 | They had joined a Gordian knot of vans , taxis , and automobiles that was inching forward at a pace that had set that little muscle in his jaw to knotting and unknotting . |
| 4 | The reason is believed to be a property that was known previously for a two-dimensional system : if small regions are rendered nonconducting then , providing there is a path connecting conducting parts , the Hall resistance is scarcely affected . |
| 5 | So you see it was , it was something the then as a nation , it was n't just a , a bygone law that had been given and was n't used , it was something that was carried out on a fa , on a regular basis . |
| 6 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 7 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 8 | They stood beside Ace , and took in the panorama that was laid out like a map below the edge of the plateau . |
| 9 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 10 | The next day , after the thirty-third night spent on the exitless side of a bed that was shoved up against a wall and that also housed a physiotherapist called Daphne , an air hostess called Olga , and Olga 's dopey Teddy bear , I got out of the bottom of the bed unheard and thought , No . |
| 11 | Lung involvement was suspected on the basis of x ray abnormalities and was confirmed histologically in a surgical biopsy specimen in three cases and in a transbronchial biopsy specimen in one . |
| 12 | Short , crisp hair , iron grey and still thick , lay close as a helmet on a head magnificently and subtly shaped , and was cut squarely across a great fleshless forehead . |
| 13 | She raised the barrel skywards , and was tumbled over by a breaking wave . |
| 14 | As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear . |
| 15 | O'Shea , an oboe player who had also made albums for a west London record label , admitted the manslaughter of Miss Turner and was sent indefinitely to a secure mental hospital . |
| 16 | Apparently the club lost its license and was shut down after a series of lawsuits stemming from car accidents involving drunk punters — and under American law , bar staff who serve drunk drivers are liable to get hauled up in front of the local beak of those people are later involved in accidents . |
| 17 | The Bush tour produced no substantial new initiatives , and was seen primarily as a US effort to reassure the region 's governments that they were not being ignored , even though US foreign policy was currently dominated by eastern Europe and by the Gulf crisis . |
| 18 | Hurt was celebrating an award which had been won by his TV series The Storyteller and was staggering around in a drunken haze when he turned on the paparazzi and yelled , ‘ Those bastards have been winding me up all night . |
| 19 | ‘ The first time , Michael went in and was dragged underwater for a bit . |
| 20 | The industrial action must also have had an effect , although senior staff suggested that union activity was not particularly strong , and was felt mainly as a restriction on communication . |
| 21 | The box was always somewhere on the floor by his bed , and was tied up with a bow , as if it was a precious parcel or a gift intended for a special person ; the bow was tied from a length of scarlet nylon ribbon which Boy had seen in the dustbin outside a florist 's , and had stolen , and taken home and ironed , having sensed at once that its splendid colour made it suitable for the tying up of this very special box . |
| 22 | This being Iceland it was black , jet-black weathered lava , and was kissed only by a light breeze coming off the glacier . |
| 23 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 24 | The meeting was friendly and Albert went off to Brighton where he roundly denounced me and all my works — without revealing that he was without his customary hat which he had forgotten and was hanging safely on a hook in my hall . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was very soon found to be a satisfactory workman , and was engaged initially for a period of 2 years . |
| 27 | I sang in the choir at chapel and was called on as a boy soprano for various local concerts or for a solo or two at Bude parish church . |
| 28 | The shadow broke like a cloud , and was blown away in a gust of rueful laughter . |
| 29 | The initial draft received many letters of comment from both camps and was followed up with a public debate in Glasgow . |
| 30 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |