Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , like I said , I got t'thinkin' about how our Triad friend would go about gittin' himself an ’ his goon squad clear , if the buildin' wuz surrounded by a hostile force .
2 Crates of fruit and vegetables were stacked at the other end .
3 Scores of meticulously labelled tins containing sub-assembly fixings were stacked at the rear of the workshop .
4 Thick pink towels were stacked on a rack , other pink towels were over a rail .
5 She picked up one of the wire baskets that were stacked outside the supermarket and gave him a selfconscious , defiant stare .
6 Cereals were stacked under the stairs , toilet paper above the door and ‘ thro' the back ’ was the repository for every shape and size of bottle .
7 Boxes of apples , which filled the air with a sickly sweet perfume , were stacked beside a cracked sink that was flanked by warped wooden draining boards .
8 Good quality hold-alls were stacked beside the table .
9 The room had the look of a tattered nest — piles of newspapers were stacked against the walls , empty stone bottles stood about with dust on their shoulders like soldiers after a battle .
10 My suitcases were stacked against the wall along with those of the boys which contained the rest of their clothes .
11 Two open wooden crates , piled high with computer keyboards , were stacked against the wall outside the headmaster 's study .
12 Empty frames and canvases were stacked against the walls …
13 Clipboard held tightly under her arm , she strode purposefully over to the area where the thousands of drums were stacked in a sprawled , looming maze .
14 Torches were stacked in a niche at the head of the tunnel .
15 Straining his eyes , he could just make out the two boxes which were stacked in the far corner of the room and a picture frame which was propped up against them .
16 After a brief glance at the two boxes of apples which were stacked in the corner , he sat on the end of the bed with Willie and talked about the poem he was writing .
17 Benches and chairs had been placed around the walls , and biscuit mattresses , still folded , were stacked in the corner nearest the stone steps .
18 His jackets were hung on the backs of chairs , his triumphantly acquired groceries were stacked in the sitting-room , his cigar butts filled the ashtrays and his glasses had made rings on the surface of the poolside table .
19 In those days think-tanks were intoxicated by the new sophistication they could apply to their work by way of computers , games theory and other novelties .
20 ‘ I can only assume they were intoxicated by the flood of enthusiasm from central government , and thought they could do anything , even build power stations in the sand , ’ he says .
21 The three young Wokingham Blacks were intoxicated by the thought of easy money and the following week were on their way to a rendezvous in London .
22 ‘ And there I was wondering why you were smelling like a — like a … ’
23 Ramsey 's father and mother were nauseated by the jingoism .
24 Interestingly , however , the SD went on to note that after unusually large audiences , prompted by heavy propaganda , had attended the film at the outset , the numbers rapidly dropped off , and there were comments that the film would bring nothing new , that people had had enough of the Jewish theme , and that many were nauseated by the depiction of ritual slaughter scenes — some fainting , and others leaving the cinema in disgust .
25 The oldest artistic castings so far known in Nigeria were excavated around the beginning of 1960 , on behalf of the Nigerian Department of Antiquities , by Thurstan Shaw at Igbo Ukwu in the south-east .
26 Fortunately for Hippisley , the body was never found , although vast areas of nearby Lambourn Woods were excavated by the townsfolk .
27 Some 46 years after its fiery end , the remains of Spitfire R6644 were excavated by the Malvern Spitfire Team , the parts restored and a memorial to the pilot erected .
28 Many of the figures were excavated in the early nineteenth century and acquired by Ludwig I of Bavaria , for whom some were heavily restored and arbitrarily grouped by the neoclassical Danish sculptor Thorwaldsen .
29 Great dinosaurs were excavated from the American west while it was still ‘ wild ’ — early fossil-hunters had to contend with hostile Indians and sometimes came to blows over possession of the richest sites .
30 What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly .
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