Example sentences of "was [noun] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of this fortified residence , belonging to the bishops of St Davids , was build largely between the late 13th and 15th centuries . |
| 2 | ‘ It would have been a prize-winning shot and all I did was stand here like a fool . |
| 3 | This meant some easing of the burden , which he liked , but it also meant that he was not Prime Minister , which he also liked being , that he did not have Chequers , for which his affection was second only to that of MacDonald , and that his salary as Lord President was £2000 instead of the £5000 which Secretaries of State as well as the Prime Minister were paid . |
| 4 | He used to make films for BDM Productions when there was money enough for the Arts to play and flourish . |
| 5 | It was experience especially for the reasons |
| 6 | The answer to that is probably that Long Engagement was 15lb out of the handicap at Sandown and Desert Orchid therefore achieved relatively less . |
| 7 | ‘ All he could do was watch helplessly as the defendant , shouting incoherently , went towards Mr Robinson and began to attack him . ’ |
| 8 | And somebody mentioned earlier , I suspect it was Colin over at the back , or one of those |
| 9 | The Chipping Norton edition of the Oxford Times features Susan Cook , an eighteen year old fashion student from Faringdon , who was runner up in a national competition for young deaf achiever of the year . |
| 10 | This year Peter Marsh was runner up in the ‘ Specialist Writer of the Year ’ category . |
| 11 | Andrew Saxton is already a Commonwealth Bronze winner and was runner up in the World Championships . |
| 12 | Pre-race favourite Mick Francis , of Forres , who was runner up in the AAA 24 hour race in October , had to retired after covering 37 5 miles in five hours , leaving Paul Bream at the front . |
| 13 | The road at that point was half-a-mile inland from the cliffs and Jordan 's place lay between it and the sea on what the geologists call an elevated plain of marine denudation . |
| 14 | The morning sun was Khepri either as a scarab or a scarab-headed man , and was also Harakhty , Horus of the Horizon , depicted as a falcon or as a falcon-headed man with a sun disk on top of his head . |
| 15 | The match was crap apart from the last 15 minutes or so . |
| 16 | In the UK , according to Piers Merchant , Director of Public Affairs for the Advertising Association , ‘ The total advertising spend for last year in all media was £7.5bn. so as a percentage of that tobacco advertising is very small … |
| 17 | THERE was confusion yesterday about the affect on government spending and borrowing after the Treasury climbdown over the way subsidies from the European Commission are treated . |
| 18 | It belonged to an extremely important erm civic family , Thomas and John Smith , who are the two important ones during the civil war , Thomas was mayor just before the War , John Smith was a member of parliament in the Long Parliament , and erm there 's a slightly complicated story to the house , Thomas moved out of it just before the war and built another one way up the street , but John stayed there , and another important landowner in Marston , Umpton Croak , owned the other half of it . |
| 19 | The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house . |
| 20 | At Ferrari it waited for him to put a foot wrong and there was blood all over the walls . ’ |
| 21 | He bled … he tried to reach the door … there was blood all over the floor … pints of it . |
| 22 | ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets . |
| 23 | Mechanic Tommy Murray , 24 , who works in a garage on the corner of the road , said : ‘ There was blood all over the place . |
| 24 | He was very dead , and there was blood all over the floor . |
| 25 | There was blood all over the windows , too , and Magee had to wipe it away with the sleeve of his coat in order to see through the windscreen . |
| 26 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 27 | He said ; There was blood all over the floor and rings scattered around . |
| 28 | It was rather spectacular really — there was blood all over the place and covering my hand . |
| 29 | Reference to the both Taskopruzade 's original and Mecdi 's translation , makes it difficult to understand how such confusion has arisen ; for although relatively few facts are given there about Abdulkerim , and although it is impossible to specify with any assurance the precise dates of his Muftilik , one thing at least is clearly stated : that Abdulkerim was Mufti not in the time of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) but in the time of Mehmed II ( 855–86/1451–81 ) . |
| 30 | There was recognition today from the government minister responsible for prisons . |