Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time the oil was replenished to at least the original amount . |
| 2 | Security and my creature comforts were cared for by a dry-cleaners on the street level ; a cafe on the first floor that would send me up something on a tray when I came home late and tired ; a retired beautician on the second floor who would revive me with an evening ‘ facial ’ ; while the grocer round the corner saw to it that my larder was replenished for my homecomings . |
| 3 | Campbell , serving a minimum of 20 years for six murders during the so-called Glasgow ice cream war , last month accepted £250 damages after discovering his hospital bed in Petershead Prison , north-east Scotland , was infested with lice . |
| 4 | However , after completing the purchase , they were horrified to find that the cottage was infested with dry rot — this cost them £5,000 to deal with . |
| 5 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 6 | The outbreak was gradually contained , and in November 1874 , Mr. Wing , the surveyor , in reporting the completion of alterations at the smallpox hospital , had noticed that the person in charge had stored corn and other garden produce in the building , which had become very dirty , and was infested with rats . |
| 7 | For those who stayed with the film , like Preston , it turned out that the underground was infested with such creatures . |
| 8 | The clamour grew around him , Cranston and Athelstan moved closer , their hands on their wallets as the crowd was infested with naps , foists and pickpockets as a rick of hay with mice and rats . |
| 9 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 10 | The entire house was infested with mice which meant that everybody was in constant battle against their droppings and their smell . |
| 11 | Jack Backhouse , a jet lad scarcely in his teens , was drunk and smashed up his father 's house A letter in 1853 claimed Whitby was infested with thieving ‘ city arabs , cast out of their homes , orphans by day and burthens by night ’ . ’ |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 13 | At the time of their demise the land was infested by the mammal-like reptiles , which had the looks and probably the habits of rats : we are the descendants of such creatures . |
| 14 | The rest was all hand operated , which was , was infested by stockinger 's shops in those days . |
| 15 | the key to the difference … lies in the family — a truth Daniel Patrick Moynihan was pilloried for stating a few years before Martin Luther King 's assassination . |
| 16 | Branded a " police spy " by Thorez , Nizan was pilloried on two counts : first , for spreading the pernicious doctrine of " National Communism " , that is , communism in word and nationalism in deed " secondly , for enacting in the reality of his life the treachery and cowardice portrayed in the fiction of his literature . |
| 17 | Lane 's partnership with the printer of the Star , Peter Stuart [ q.v. ] , was curtailed in 1789 at the time of the Regency Bill , when Stuart allegedly printed anti-Pitt propaganda ; in revenge , Stuart began a short-lived rival to the Star in which Lane was pilloried as a ‘ scribbling poulterer ’ and his paper as the ‘ Dog Star ’ . |
| 18 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 19 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 20 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 21 | Colin Blakemore was pilloried in 1987 and 1988 not just because his work was considered ( wrongly ) to be excessively cruel but also because it was thought to be useless . |
| 22 | Wilde , depicted as the leader of the aesthetic movement , with its unnatural taste for the sensual and the erotic , was pilloried in court as a foreign parasite . |
| 23 | Bobby Robson was pilloried in exactly the same fashion then promptly hailed as a conquering hero when his team came within a penalty shoot-out of reaching the World Cup final in 1990 . |
| 24 | The church was reconsecrated in the presence of HM the Queen in October 1958 as the Central Church of The RAF . |
| 25 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
| 26 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 27 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 28 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 29 | The Queen 's sleeping compartment , beautifully appointed , was furnished with bedstead , dressing table , wardrobe , and armchairs . |
| 30 | It also had a smoking room , which was furnished with one electric light and pressurised to prevent hydrogen seeping in . |