Example sentences of "it [was/were] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clean , even the wheels were clean , as if it were put out on a drive on Sundays and given the old once-over like the family car . |
| 2 | it were rolled up in a wood set er cardboard cylinder and it fetched half a million did n't it ? |
| 3 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 4 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 5 | The body was still twitching when it was flung on to a table and the head hacked off , blood spurting like a fountain . |
| 6 | It was dug up in a ploughed field in South Worcestershire … the precise location is being kept secret . |
| 7 | It was tied up in a parcel . |
| 8 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 9 | It was pointed out by a number of respondents that some lenders already include requirements of this kind in their instructions to solicitors . |
| 10 | Originally intended to have taken the form of a binding Convention , it was watered down to a " Statement " as a result of concerted lobbying by a number of timber-exporting countries , led by Malaysia , which viewed it as an attack on sovereignty , and accused northern countries of hypocrisy , given the fact that they had already destroyed all but a tiny fraction of their own virgin forests . |
| 11 | For the first three centuries of its existence , until 751 , it was ruled over by a single family , that of the Merovingians . |
| 12 | For it was born out of a long histtory of protest . |
| 13 | Haydon , who painted Wordsworth on Helvellyn in 1842 , noted that ‘ His head is like as if it was carved out of a mossy rock , created before the flood ’ , and those who tried to penetrate to the character beneath the face of the old man used the same ‘ stony ’ vocabulary . |
| 14 | Since it was carried out over a four-month summer period ( May-August ) , the practices of these industries with summer peaks will have been better captured than the practices of those with peaks at other times of the year . |
| 15 | The PKK had denied responsibility for a bomb which caused one death in Istanbul on Jan. 25 , claiming that it was carried out as a provocative act by a " counter-guerrilla " force . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was brought in by a refugee from the persecution of the Catholic church about that time , when thousands of British communicants , including the bishops of York and Carlisle , perished . |
| 17 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 18 | A critic had coined a phrase for them and it was taken up as a catch phrase — ‘ They dance as one woman and what a woman . ’ |
| 19 | The kitchen occupied the lower storey of the dwelling and most of the space in it was taken up by a lemon wood table and four rush-seated chairs decorated in traditional colours and floral patterns . |
| 20 | ‘ A couple of weeks ago one of these Mafia men was sitting in his Mercedes when it was taken out with a grenade launcher from a range of 300 metres . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , a party from the castle across the Forth , they gathered it up and it was taken back on a royal barge . ’ |
| 22 | Caroline Amphlett had left and it was switched through to an outside line . |
| 23 | It was laid on as a surprise by Nick 's colleagues at Norfolk county council . |
| 24 | It was laid down by a judgement of the King 's Court in 1205 that ‘ No one ought or is able to divide up or in any way to alienate a serjeanty ’ . |
| 25 | It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset . |
| 26 | It was picked up after a couple of rings . |
| 27 | The monument was brought from Stanwick in about 1920 , Mr Carter says , and it was put up by a local firm , Charge Brothers . |
| 28 | The Unix festival , UniForum ‘ 93 , did n't feel as successful a show as it was last year : it was spread out over a lot more acreage and split into two widely separated pavilions , and attendance looked sparse and the aisles empty despite show management 's claims of a 10% increase in traffic — like as not , it was talking about the pre-registration which was up , but unofficially we hear attendance was down ; UniForum is still more a Unix celebration than anything else but it remains to be seen whether there will still be things to celebrate or whether erosion has set in . |
| 29 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 30 | I noticed that the Barwick men took no chances this time ; as the pole lay in the field it was wired up to an electronic burglar alarm system , but they still took it in turns to sit up and keep an eye on it . |