Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was cleared of wounding two other youths , but convicted of affray and was remanded in custody to be sentenced today . |
| 2 | At Frampton Cotterell near Bristol , Avon , a canoeist was plucked to safety after being swept away in the fast-flowing River Frome . |
| 3 | He then proceeds : " After a while he was reinstated in favour by being authorized to give fetvas . |
| 4 | Tracy West , who was knocked down , was picked up by bystanders and taken to a nearby shop , where she was treated for shock before being taken to the Memorial Hospital . |
| 5 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 6 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |
| 7 | Marine fishkeeper Ian Durnall , from Wolverhampton , was flown to hospital after being stung on the finger by his pet Lionfish reports the Daily Mirror . |
| 8 | TROPICAL-fish keeper Ian Durnall was flown to hospital after being stung by his pet lion fish . |
| 9 | ‘ The stewardess thought he was weeping for happiness at being free . |
| 10 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 11 | This architect specified radiused gutter proved extremely difficult for the builder to obtain , until the problem was solved by Apex after being able to fabricate the specification requirement |
| 12 | However , as the week long conference progressed , all opposition was dropped in preference to being outvoted . |
| 13 | Unable to come in for a presentation , Archie was visited at home to be given a retirement gift from the company and one from his colleagues . |
| 14 | She was sentenced for life to be Clare 's younger sister in his eyes . |
| 15 | This was felt at home to be a major humiliation , and the government found itself under fire from the whole spectrum of public opinion . |
| 16 | In fact , it was suggested that if one criticised the policies , then one was seen by government to be destructive . |
| 17 | Matthew Gould , who 's 25 , was said in court to be a man doing his duty as a bailiff . |
| 18 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 19 | We were leaving England and as the boat sailed down the Solent past the Needles everyone was mustered on deck to be informed that the King had died . |
| 20 | She was expelled from school for being a ‘ bad influence ’ , joined a heavy metal band and at one stage worked as a Bunny Girl for her father 's biggest rival , Playboy chief Hugh Heffner . |
| 21 | It is assumed that he was arrested on suspicion of being an American spy . |
| 22 | Futre had been substituted in a warm-up match prior to departure for Valetta and had subsequently fallen out with Quieroz and was left at home for being ‘ not in the correct frame of mind ’ to play a World Cup tie . |
| 23 | Bill 's nightmare started when he was taken to hospital after being hit by a car as he returned home from a fishing trip . |
| 24 | Striker Ferdinand , one of the midweek heroes in the win at Coventry , was taken to hospital after being replaced in the second half . |
| 25 | The 27-year-old one-time Royal Green Jackets officer was taken to hospital after being found unconscious in his cell at the colony 's Moorish Castle jail at 3am on Sunday , prison authorities confirmed yesterday . |
| 26 | One of them died almost immediately ; its little body was dressed in a clean nightdress and linen cap and its arms were folded on its breast ; then it was taken at night to be buried . |
| 27 | From its rediscovery in the early fifteenth century Polybius ' history was taken in turn to be a treatise on constitutional forms , a handbook for army officers and a guide for politicians , especially diplomats . |
| 28 | " The roof did not actually leak very much before it was taken in hand to be repaired : but is now reported to be in need of more repairs . " |