Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 2 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 3 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 4 | Both were picked out from an identity parade by witnesses . |
| 5 | Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age . |
| 6 | In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories . |
| 7 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 8 | It is high time the variable quality of international referees and the anomalies that abound in interpretation were sorted out by an International Board Survey . |
| 9 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 10 | Although at the time they were made up of an apparently infinite chain of familiar days , I can think of them now only as a whole . |
| 11 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 12 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 13 | And here , with so many gangs living close together , more names were crossed out with an X. That would have meant more killing . |
| 14 | Previous generations were brought up in an age when it was thought not ‘ respectable ’ — especially for women — to enjoy sex ; and men and women over 50 or so were expected to be together ‘ for companionship ’ , to the exclusion of any sexual activity . |
| 15 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 16 | In South-west England block and basin limestones and shales and spilitic basic volcanics were laid down in an extensional basin developed at the western end of the Rheno-Hercynian zone . |
| 17 | Mozart 's hopes were set back at an early stage for on 29 September he reported a conversation with Prince Zeill who said the Elector had told him : |
| 18 | A total of 22 552 workers were followed up on an average of 18.6 years . |
| 19 | A fire broke out in her ammunition hold and the crew were taken off by an attendant destroyer . |
| 20 | This ‘ S ’ Party was scattered by a Japanese attack but regrouped before February , when they were taken off by an American submarine . |
| 21 | But why should you condemn yourself because you were taken in by an elaborate trick and an accomplished liar ? |
| 22 | Volunteers were wired up to an EEG ( electroencephalograph ) machine called a ‘ Mind Mirror ’ which records brainwave patterns . |
| 23 | Volunteers were wired up to an EEG machine which records skin responses as well as brainwave patterns . |
| 24 | A few pairs of battered shoes were lined up along an old wooden shelf . |
| 25 | The knees of the Doctor 's trousers were scorched off in an instant . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The nine were travelling in two Warrior armoured infantry vehicles when they were fired on by an A-10 " tankbuster " war plane . |
| 28 | His wife and two teenage daughters were ferried about by an armed chauffeur . |