Example sentences of "was [adj] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seminal work of such type was that carried out by the Italian psychiatrist , Lombroso , who set out to demonstrate the pathological nature of genius , quoting examples as varied as Julius Caesar , Mohammed , Newton , Rousseau , and Schopenhauer . |
| 2 | The most reliable and systematic survey was that carried out by Dr Kenneth Mellanby into pediculosis , and it revealed an incidence that was quite high . |
| 3 | and it was all split up into the different seminar group , we we had to take one aspect . |
| 4 | but you see with him you see , they , it was packed , the house before the wake was packed , because Margaret kept coming over when he was all dressed up in a suit and everything , I did n't , she asked me if , once to go , I just said no I would prefer to remember |
| 5 | she said it was all packed up in a box and I said well you would n't see it then would you ? |
| 6 | Last night he got into bed with you and all his face was all puffed up from crying . |
| 7 | It was all taken up by the top brass you know . |
| 8 | It was all taken up from home you see . |
| 9 | Some of it was Australian , some , and then you had the English , you see , as well , but they was all allocated out to so much you a week , how many books you had , how many customers you 'd got . |
| 10 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 11 | But it was all hazed over in endless mists of blue . |
| 12 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 13 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 14 | He went on a long journey , was weary worn out with labour , and returning engraved on a stone the whole story . " |
| 15 | This house was first built back in the 1890s as a residence for the local missionary . |
| 16 | The Slav Muslims also had their oral traditions , the most celebrated of their ballads being the Hasanaginica , which was first written down in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | The input cursive line data was first filled in to a consistent thickness . |
| 18 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 19 | The fact was that she had lost the six square inches of canvas allocated for the kettleholder when it was first given out to the class . |
| 20 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 21 | Such a relation was first pointed out by Kinnersley ( 1975 ) , and by Fisher ( 1980 ) . |
| 22 | It was first worked on at the turn of the century by the American psychologist , E. L. Thorndike , and more recently by another American psychologist , B. F. Skinner , and many others . |
| 23 | This area of study was first opened up by Professor Kurt Lewin in the United States in the mid 1940 's with the use of so-called ‘ T-groups ’ as a device for the study of inter-personal relations within groups . |
| 24 | Another famous prop , David Sole , captain in the memorable Grand Slam in 1990 , was first capped out of English rugby , while he was with Bath . |
| 25 | The social care programme at Thomas Danby College in Leeds was first set up in 1978 . |
| 26 | Docklands historians say it was first shipped out to thirsty expats in the Far East from Hodgson 's brewery in Bow in 1734 . |
| 27 | The contest between the two candidates was first fought out before cardinals Gaucelin and Luke in England , but in 1318 the case was revoked to the Roman curia at Avignon , where Hamo was himself constrained to go in early 1319 . |
| 28 | In the consultation document that was first put out to the public in nineteen ninety one , the public was only offered the yellow route . |
| 29 | It is a highly successful adaptation of an advertisement which was first shown back in the early 1980s in Britain . |
| 30 | The town centre , west of the Windrush river , was first laid out by the Bishop of Winchester in the early 13th. century , and is considered to be a fine example of medieval town planning . |