Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By the end of the week 11,000 Meskhetians had fled their homes and were living in refugee camps with troops protecting them ; even here they were not entirely safe as a motorised column armed with automatic weapons set out for one of the camps and was stopped only by a detachment of helicopter gunships .
2 He was joined there by a succession of members of a group of young Viennese associates , fellow exiles from Europe , who were attracted by König 's vision of therapeutic residential communities where children with learning difficulties and behaviour problems arising from organic disorders and emotional disturbances could receive a broad education to the fullest extent their individual capabilities would allow , within a caring , sharing , self-governing , Christian ‘ family ’ setting .
3 Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n .
4 This was repainted earlier in the year for the BR Bescot Open Day at Walsall while 0-6-0- shunter 13029 was also used for various duties around the Museum site during the course of the weekend .
5 Lily Firth , Lily Greene the actress , née Lily Greenwood of Leeds , was to holiday not in the South of France or Austria or Switzerland , but in deepest , darkest , furthest Rumania …
6 But Seb was struggling up from the table .
7 Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side .
8 Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election .
9 These programmes were identified by the government ( HMSO , 1977 ) as central to urban regenerative strategies , but neither programme was redirected successfully towards the cities in the last few years of the 1974–9 Labour administration .
10 It was formulated dogmatically in the catechism and daily celebrated in the memorial of the Passion inherent in the Canonical Hours .
11 The evidence on housing interiors given by the Women 's Labour League to the Tudor Walters Committee on Housing Design at the end of the War proved influential , although housing policy generally was formulated more from a fear of unrest by working class men than with the needs of working class women in mind .
12 Despite the absence of any traces of body or coffin ( apart from some nails in the fill ) in the central pit , the whole monument would appear to be the probable grave — or cenotaph — of an important official which was erected sometime around the middle of the second century .
13 David Nock , who was 16 , from Leckhampton in Cheltenham , was jogging home from a disco when he died from a single stab wound to the heart .
14 She was propelled roughly along the side of the van , squeezed between its side and the traffic .
15 Irina , his half-sister and the daughter of Turakina by his father , was kneeling intently on a cushion behind him while she attempted to dress his hair Yek style .
16 ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee .
17 He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me .
18 The bending of light near a massive body is one prediction of GR , and this was checked crudely by the expedition of 1919 .
19 Diem , an ardent Catholic , a former mandarin , was plucked out of a Maryland seminary to become premier by the Americans in 1954 .
20 The sides were set , and national positions determined , in a debate that was to continue well into the future .
21 At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party .
22 In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors .
23 ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time .
24 When his father was tucked up for the night , the son would wander out into the garden and enjoy the cool air as a contrast to the fug of the sick-room .
25 He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school .
26 Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable !
27 He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing .
28 A small machine code programme was tucked away in the computer and when called upon would produce the necessary signals to drive the servos via the ‘ user port ’ and an interface box .
29 Sunday Life has learned his filofax , containing sensitive work contact numbers , was tucked away in the glove compartment .
30 According to Ken he worked in the old Government Commission , which was tucked away in the back somewhere , until the present Government wound it up and the Cabinet Office took over its functions .
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