Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were another 100 miles of flatland , of dust , sheep , rheas and distant mountains before we were stopped at a police post . |
| 2 | Miss Jeanette , who at the time was Nichol 's 16year-old girlfriend , told how a week after the attack they were stopped at a police road block . |
| 3 | Some of these issues were tested in the case of Moss v. McLachlan in which a group of picketing miners travelling in convoy were stopped by a police cordon on the M1 motorway and requested to turn back . |
| 4 | Gqozo said he had been forewarned of a coup plot , and the two conspirators were stopped by a police road block as they attempted to enter the capital , Bisho , from the direction of Transkei . |
| 5 | Inside , the walls of the packed Pontllanfraith leisure centre were hung with a miners ' banner and posters from the 1987 campaign : outside the speech was broadcast via a video link to hundreds more standing spellbound in a field . |
| 6 | One front-page exclusive in the Daily Mirror reported that child porn photos involving two top television stars were uncovered in a police raid on a photographic studio . |
| 7 | Both Institutes were replying to a Customs & Excise consultation paper . |
| 8 | Eventually both men were bundled into a police car and driven away . |
| 9 | Well we had the parks to look after , we had the baths , the public baths and the playing fields to er they were administered through a parks superintendent . |
| 10 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 11 | They were seized in a police raid on his home . |
| 12 | On the day that British Athletic Federation officials were deliberating the fate of disgraced European indoor 60 metres champion Jason Livingston , sent home from the Barcelona Games when traces of Methandianone were found in a drugs sample , British team captain Christie hit out after a London awards ceremony . |
| 13 | Three men and one woman were arrested at a travellers ' site at Windmill Lane near Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | Three men were arrested following a police operation in Birtley , near Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , on Saturday night . |
| 15 | Alejandro Guzman , known as Tito , and Ademar Lima Lobo , who were allegedly two of the country 's most wanted drug traffickers , were arrested in a police and army drug raid , along with 54 others , on Dec. 9 in the eastern department of Beni . |
| 16 | They told reporters that they were protesting at a police attack on the demonstrators at the Guildhall . |
| 17 | For the first time details of serious crimes , including all cases of cattle stealing which village headmen chose to report , were investigated by a police force which could in theory take quick and decisive action . |
| 18 | So that , when she went to the headmistress with what I was supposed to have done to her as we were changing after a singles tennis game , of course everyone believed her . |
| 19 | When clothes were put on a kouros the forward step made for play between stuff and limb ; the forward step and skirt pulled aside were combined in the creation , in the second half of the century , of a new type almost as regular as the kouros and known to us as kore , girl . |
| 20 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 21 | Aminoacids were analysed by a BAS 200A ternary gradient high performance liquid chromatography system ( Bioanalytical Systems Inc. , West Lafayette , IN , USA ) with a CMA200 autoinjector ( Carnegie Medicin , Stockholm , Sweden ) . |
| 22 | FIVE UDA blackmailers jailed last week after they were snared in a police sting were the organisation 's top extortionists . |
| 23 | The Chesterfield Races were held within a stones throw of Sheepbridge & Brimington , and this is an original GC poster from the year 1911 when the fare from Penistone was two shillings and sixpence . |
| 24 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 25 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 26 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 27 | Diana was enrolled at a girls ' day-school , Charles at a nearby kindergarten . |
| 28 | The Rottweiler was recognized as a police dog , and though it came fourth behind three other breeds , it was a start , a start to a new career and one the breed took to with relish . |
| 29 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 30 | The development of the service for the diagnosis and treatment of the sexually transmitted diseases in Great Britain stems largely from the efforts of one man , Colonel L. W. Harrison , who , somewhat unwillingly , was posted to a Guards Regiment Hospital in Rochester Row , London , in 1909 as pathologist . |