Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The joint that Joey had rolled was passed to her and she drew on it gratefully .
2 This task was made especially difficult because Coleridge was a voluminous reader but he was aided by the fact that almost everything that Coleridge had read was recorded in a notebook .
3 The barrage intensified : the explosions merged into a continuous crackling rumble of noise , the clifftop where Daak had stood was turned into a firework display of blinding flashes , and below it an avalanche of smoking rocks .
4 In June 1935 an LCC plaque on the house where Karl Marx had lived was removed by the IFL and replaced by an anti-Jewish notice .
5 The image Johnson had smashed was restored by Louis : he was controllable .
6 And the supermarket Jacques had mentioned was sited on the outskirts of town , she discovered .
7 Six months later the policy shift that the FDP had sought was endorsed by the voters .
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