Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [adv prt] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offiah , back in action against Widnes last Friday after missing two matches with hamstring trouble , was carried off early in the second half after pulling up in agony . |
| 2 | Normally this duty was spelt out explicitly in the instructions he received at the beginning of his embassy . |
| 3 | The attitude of many Romanian health professionals was summed up recently in the words of one doctor in Constanta who said ‘ Health Education is the only ‘ vaccine ’ we have to fight against HIV . ’ |
| 4 | was laid out late in the first century , but its continuation southwards was not constructed until the mid third century . |
| 5 | Because I have it , whether it 's anything to do with my aristocratic ancestors or the fact that I was brought up properly in the old-fashioned way to respect integrity and honesty and decency . |
| 6 | The connection between smuggling , parliamentary politics and the conduct of customs officials was brought out strongly in the election for Wigtown in 1761 , when that town was the returning burgh of a district of four towns , for the position of the customs officers of Wigtown was thought likely to topple the dominant interest of Lord Galloway and his son Lord Garlies . |
| 7 | Mr Robertson 's list fits into this picture : a trial balloon , ostensibly pleasing to greens , which was sent up almost in the hope that it would be quickly shot down . |
| 8 | Hebburn 's Les Tatum was sent off late in the game . |
| 9 | She was held up briefly in the final when the in-form Sanchez-Vicario swept to a 4–1 lead ( and deservedly so ) and yet Martina , the grass court player supreme , merely drew on her experience , stepped up a gear , kept her nerve and won 5 games in a row to deflate the Spanish challenge . |