Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 2 | These refusals were mainly from relatively high-status households , and where they were not categorical ( for example , people sometimes excused themselves on the grounds that they were too busy to be interviewed ) , were dealt with initially by a follow-up visit . |
| 3 | When they arrived they were taken at once to a private alcove . |
| 4 | Messengers were sent on ahead with a manifesto : Charles was coming to make good his rights ; there would be an amnesty for all who now came over to him ; those who refused to accept his God-given rule would have to quit his kingdom . |
| 5 | I was plunged at once into an immediate round of familiarisation of completely new and strange devices that were the work-a-day tools of Bomber Command . |
| 6 | A warning about the Staples Corner bomb was received at 12.20am at a telephone exchange in Portadown , Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | He was approached from behind by a man who shoved a sharp object into his back and ordered him to return to the bar in Beaumont Street . |
| 8 | Ice-cream was looked on mainly as a cheap , default dessert appealing to a cost-conscious market . |
| 9 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 10 | He swerved without warning to avoid a peaceable bicycle and was hooted at violently by an approaching car . |
| 11 | Early in his career he was thought of primarily as a left-arm spinner , and made his debut for Barbados in 1941–2 as such . |
| 12 | John was called in initially in an advisory capacity with Laings and the architects . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the company was called upon often without a word of preparation — to treat on a subject with which he was presumed to be familiar , and so to express himself that what he said could be discussed afterwards . |
| 14 | The 28-year-old woman was walking alone in the town 's Templehill area at around 12:30am when she was grabbed from behind outside a funeral parlour and indecently assaulted her before escaping on foot . |
| 15 | As she approached County Hall on New Street , she was grabbed from behind by a man who dragged her down an alley . |
| 16 | She was grabbed from behind by a man and forced into a car where another man was waiting . |
| 17 | There was the point that the scientific community had not yet had time to confirm the phenomenon but this was dealt with summarily with a warning that would , in the following months , become a knee-jerk response of Utah fusion aficionados . |
| 18 | Major Barrie put in acidly : ‘ He was driven over there by a second lieutenant called Bailey , if you have any jurisdiction in this matter . |
| 19 | The thin beam waved by Victor Kurlos was spotted at 3am by a team in an RAF Sea King helicopter hunting for him with night sight goggles . |
| 20 | The fire at Broad Bay View , Back , was discovered at 8am by a neighbour . |
| 21 | Of course , it was hailed at once as a magic square — as a sign that supernatural powers were at work in the world . |