Example sentences of "was [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
| 2 | A Fish Association was duly set up under the chairmanship of the Duke of Kent . |
| 3 | The judicial commission of inquiry , announced by the Prime Minister , Vere Bird Sr , on April 25 , was duly set up under the chairmanship of a British QC , Louis Blom-Cooper . |
| 4 | Joaquín Balaguer was duly sworn in as President on Aug. 16 [ see p. 37649 ] , despite the failure to elect presidents of the two legislative chambers and a boycott by many opposition members . |
| 5 | The First Deputy Prime Minister , Goh Chok Tong , was duly sworn in as Lee 's replacement . |
| 6 | With American diplomatic assistance a new agreement was slowly thrashed out with Egypt . |
| 7 | The old Whig platform for constitutional reform was slowly taken up by the London Tories , with the result that by the last years of Anne 's reign they had largely absorbed their opponents ' former libertarian rhetoric . |
| 8 | Bodie glanced at the wreck of the Stones ' car as it was slowly winched back across the pavement by the police breakdown truck . |
| 9 | The car was slowly winched out of the water so that forensic experts could begin their work with the minimum of disturbance . |
| 10 | The product was discreetly set out towards the back with the label half turned away . |
| 11 | During the war , his entourage was frequently scandalised by his affairs with Frenchwomen in occupied France , and when , in 1923 , he was secretly smuggled back to Germany from exile in Holland , his friends hustled him through breakfast out of fear that he might fall in love with some hotel chambermaid and thus jeopardise the whole plot . |
| 12 | My subject of frost covered trees and hedgerows involved little colour and was mostly worked up in a sequence of colour tinted greys bearing reference numbers in the 800s . |
| 13 | Cutting was mostly carried out with a scythe although a few were able to hire machinery for the purpose . |
| 14 | Opposition critics claimed that since the practice of making people " disappear " was mostly carried out by the military , the new law effectively granted it immunity from future prosecution and the power to abduct anyone with impunity . |
| 15 | I was just telling our Daniel , I was right put off by what passes for tea on t'railways these days : I could n't stomach no more . |
| 16 | So I I fucking get it right , say something , I was right pissed off by this time , next , I , I , I stood out and step forward fucking get closer sort of thing and say something and that was it , . |
| 17 | I said I was rather tied up at the school over most week-ends ; though the half-term holiday was the week-end after next and I might just be in Athens then — but I could n't be sure . |
| 18 | Peter was rather doted on in his childhood — with the sort of results you see now . ’ |
| 19 | Grandfather 's principal interest was to hear the one who played the piano but when he got there he was rather taken up with the violinist . |
| 20 | Although the railways were crucial to tea-growing and marketing from Ceylon — because of the absence of other suitable forms of transportation — tea was successfully brought out from Assam by elephant , ‘ country boat ’ , and steamer for several decades before the arrival of the railway . |
| 21 | This programme was successfully carried through by Erwin Schrödinger and his results published early in 1926 , a classic counter-example to the assertion that distinguished theoretical physicists do their best work before they are 25 ( Schrödinger was 38 at the time ) . |
| 22 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 23 | It was eventually swallowed up by the expanding city . |
| 24 | It started life in the cloth trade but , as with many other Woodchester mills , was eventually turned over to other uses . |
| 25 | It was eventually called off by DPP leaders after the Kuomintang agreed to consider revising part of its constitutional amendment package . |
| 26 | Although it was eventually pushed out of the company 's programmes by the success of Pineapple Poll , another comedy in which John developed further the idea of sailors getting their come-uppance , Tritsch Tratsch has never lost its popularity as a number suitable for galas and concert programmes . |
| 27 | The wheel was never repaired and was eventually broken up for scrap . |
| 28 | Haynes was eventually run out for 62 and left the field in tears thinking he had lost his team the match , but by then only three more were needed and Roberts was striking the ball well . |
| 29 | And , yes , I saw the incident at Southampton , where Mark Nicholas was eventually given out to a disputed close catch and then brought back to the crease . |
| 30 | The cause was eventually tracked down to a previously unknown bacterium , given the name Legionella pneumophila . |