Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Seb was struggling up from the table . |
| 2 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 3 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 4 | At the time , Belinda had merely thought she was resting up for the party . |
| 5 | In the next room half of Beverly Hills High was freaking out to The Doors . |
| 6 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 9 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 10 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 11 | At about the same time as Jayne and Dave were tying the knot , creative director Nadia Marks was limbering up for the 20th anniversary of her wedding to writer husband Graham , whom she met at art school . |
| 12 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 13 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , Nuclear Electric was formed out of the old Central Electricity Generating Board and has remained a Government-owned project throughout . |
| 14 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Now , she was stripped down to the bare essentials of her person , trying to deal with her knowledge . |
| 16 | The dismantling of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the creation of an archaeological park is an idea that was floated back in the days of Napoleonic occupation . |
| 17 | The foreman 's office was partitioned off from the shop floor and from it one could see the men at work on the machines — five or six of them — but part of the floor was screened off by large canvas sheets suspended from the roof trusses . |
| 18 | The song was bellowing out over the din of the battle . |
| 19 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 20 | According to Special Branch , very violent treatment was meted out in the foyer to the men removed by the Black-shirts ; the police intervened just in time to prevent serious injury . |
| 21 | The authors reported that as this project progressed interest in the teaching of study skills increased and this interest was filtering through into the primary schools sector . |
| 22 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 23 | Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed . |
| 24 | She was propped up on the sofa near her open window which commanded an excellent view of the whole of Canons ' Court . |
| 25 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 26 | Sterling — now the EC 's weakest currency following devaluation of the Italian lira — was propped up by the Bank of England , dashing hopes of an early interest rate cut in Britain . |
| 27 | ‘ This was propped up against the body , on the front doorstep . ’ |
| 28 | The room was unpainted and the only furniture consisted of a lime green sofa , two wooden chairs and a three-legged coffee table which was propped up against the wall to prevent it from toppling over . |
| 29 | She wandered across the laboratory to where it was propped up against the wall . |
| 30 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |