Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] was [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She almost asked whether he had not been there the previous Friday but stopped , unsure whether he had forgotten or was deliberately misleading her . |
| 2 | I suspect the King was surrounded and was lightly wounded by arrows . |
| 3 | It was reported to him that Lizzy 's hair was still golden , but his MSS book stank ; it had to be disinfected and was eventually burned . |
| 4 | But the coroner added that the water system had since been disinfected and was now cleaned out regularly . |
| 5 | I found myself superseded by much younger men , and so resigned and was duly pensioned off . |
| 6 | He had twice been badly wounded and was still hobbling around with a stick when he was given command of Fort Vaux , the smallest of the forts ringing Verdun but crucial to the defence of the important Fort Souville . |
| 7 | Along the inland , mostly mountainous boundary , despite the efforts of the joint delimitation commission , much remained to be clarified and was still causing difficulties in 1980 . |
| 8 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 9 | Obviously , the Government share the hon. Gentleman 's pleasure at the fact that the liquidator may well be working out an arrangement with the main shareholders that would mean BCCI 's creditors possibly getting a considerably greater return on what they are owed than was previously thought possible . |
| 10 | One evening Leopold Zborowski , a Polish poet , came to look at the modern paintings exhibited and was immediately taken by Modigliani 's remarkable talent . |
| 11 | Some members of staff at the school felt that it had suffered and was still suffering from the effects of the reorganization . |
| 12 | Markby asked twice if she were cold and she knew he 'd noticed and was politely trying to find out what was wrong . |
| 13 | Perhaps the woman had already met Jesus previously , had changed her immoral life , in so doing had realised that her sins had been forgiven and was now showing gratitude for this . |
| 14 | Mr Nellis was also treated and was later released . |
| 15 | One must be careful not to sentimentalise : more detailed anthropological studies would be needed to see how far this respect was diluted as frailty advanced or was ritually accorded , without substance . |
| 16 | The village school attended by my father was a Church school : it had been founded and was originally funded by the National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church ( was there ever a more eloquent title ? ) . |
| 17 | Following a meeting of the National Examinations Board of Embalmers on 19th October 1990 , which was attended by representatives from the National Education Committee and Tutors Guild , a report was produced and was also published in The Embalmer . |
| 18 | Jefferson , whose eloquence on the theme of natural equality is constantly reiterated and was even written into the American Declaration of Independence , remained a slave owner to the end of his life . |
| 19 | One crew member ejected but was later found drowned , the other did not eject and died in the crash . |
| 20 | Our plane landed and was immediately surrounded by children from the school , although the arrival of aircraft is no great novelty in the many villages in the region that have an airstrip but no access by road . |
| 21 | Clarke v. Clarke [ 1990 ] 2 F.L.R. 115 , was an appeal from a county court , in which Form N79 as served on the contemnor contained no particulars of the findings upon which the committal was based and was only served on the contemnor 13 days after his committal . |
| 22 | Her hair never looked unkempt , but always shone as if newly brushed and was usually tied in a pony-tail with well-ironed blue or pink ribbon . |
| 23 | In one post the English applicant was shortlisted and was subsequently withdrawn — after which the Asian applicant was shortlisted . |
| 24 | However , in school their energy was not always tapped and was sometimes directed towards disrupting the school or , as one pupil said : ‘ to get our own back on them for the way they have treated us ’ . |
| 25 | This continued until a drop-off in the number of pedestrians was found and was then recorded on a graph and in a table . |
| 26 | Ariadne announced that the pictures on the back page with what some call funny captions were to be axed and was promptly beaten up by post and battered into continuing . |
| 27 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 28 | Woollen cloth led but was increasingly supplemented by a wider range of manufactured goods as well as by re-exports of tobacco , sugar and dyes . |
| 29 | In other important cities , however , including Málaga in the south , Santander on the north coast , and the Basque city of Bilbao , the rising either failed to get started or was swiftly quelled by loyal troops and members of the two main armed police forces , the Civil Guard and Assault Guard . |
| 30 | The right hon. Member for Lagan Valley said that he was not clear whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman had finished or was still giving way , and my right hon. Friend referred to what looked like only the first half of his speech . |