Example sentences of "[noun] were [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When at last he spoke , the words were spat out in sharp interrogation . |
| 2 | Her words were written down by recorders , whom she sometimes exhorted to write faster to keep pace with her . |
| 3 | The way she spoke , all words were broken down into distinct syllables . |
| 4 | His words were drowned out by the roar of automatic fire , as another hail of slugs hammered against the metal sheeting of the door and screamed into the far wall . |
| 5 | Byelorussian Premier Vyacheslav Kebich addressed the crowd and declared his government 's willingness to negotiate , but his words were drowned out by jeers and whistling . |
| 6 | ’ The words were forced out between choking sobs . ’ … |
| 7 | The whispered words were forced back down her throat as he moved up to bury his hard mouth on hers , the devouring urgency annihilating her sequence of thought . |
| 8 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 9 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 10 | The words were wrenched out like rotten teeth . |
| 11 | His successors were weighed down by the sense of duty . |
| 12 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 13 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 14 | National guidelines were drawn up after the Cairngorms tragedy . |
| 15 | All the Victorian fry were grown on in tanks with a pH of only 7.4 . |
| 16 | ‘ Mummy said I need n't bring it back , as it was old and the twigs were coming out of it . ’ |
| 17 | Retarded complexes were cut out of the gel , incubated with PAGE-running buffer for 3 minutes at 60 C and separated on 10% polyacrylamide gels ( 18 ) . |
| 18 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 19 | ‘ An American oddball who , like Jim Jarmusch and Spike Lee , takes a sideways look at his own culture , Whit Stillman has directed a film so sharp and amusing that film-goers were shut out in droves from its many screenings in Cannes . |
| 20 | The techniques of the coffee table brigade were seeping through into academia , which was no bad thing . |
| 21 | And shell-shocked manager Khalid Mahmood admitted after his side were bowled out for 165 and a shattering 198-run defeat : ‘ That was n't batting , it was butchery . |
| 22 | Pott Shrigley had the highest score of the day in the division with 171–9 at Holmes Chapel before the home side were bowled out for 86 . |
| 23 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 24 | Large squares were laid out in many city centres . |
| 25 | This happened when Juventus fans were chased out of an enclosure dominated by English supporters and , in the ensuing panic and rush to escape , a stadium wall collapsed , producing an appalling crush of bodies in which thirty-eight people ( mostly Italian ) died and 400 more were injured . |
| 26 | I also remember being extremely ashamed at some of the racist chants the Leeds fans were coming out with that night . |
| 27 | Powerful fans were brought in from other mines and taken down into Bank mine to disperse the gases . |
| 28 | The more popular meetings of the NL were attended by between 200 and 400 , although attendances fell rapidly in the summer of 1939 . |
| 29 | Its legs were splayed out at awkward angles on the rug , and its flanks rose and fell with the deep breaths of sleep . |
| 30 | A DRIVER 'S legs were torn off at the knees yesterday when his car split in two in a horrific crash . |