Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ Inspectors sent to investigate the premises then found it was infested with cockroaches from infant to adult stage , alive and dead , on work surfaces , in the waste bins , around the cooker and behind two storage freezers . ’ |
| 2 | The entire house was infested with mice which meant that everybody was in constant battle against their droppings and their smell . |
| 3 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 4 | The outbreak was gradually contained , and in November 1874 , Mr. Wing , the surveyor , in reporting the completion of alterations at the smallpox hospital , had noticed that the person in charge had stored corn and other garden produce in the building , which had become very dirty , and was infested with rats . |
| 5 | The clamour grew around him , Cranston and Athelstan moved closer , their hands on their wallets as the crowd was infested with naps , foists and pickpockets as a rick of hay with mice and rats . |
| 6 | Campbell , serving a minimum of 20 years for six murders during the so-called Glasgow ice cream war , last month accepted £250 damages after discovering his hospital bed in Petershead Prison , north-east Scotland , was infested with lice . |
| 7 | The rest was all hand operated , which was , was infested by stockinger 's shops in those days . |
| 8 | Wilde , depicted as the leader of the aesthetic movement , with its unnatural taste for the sensual and the erotic , was pilloried in court as a foreign parasite . |
| 9 | It is appropriate here that I quote from passages in the report of the headmaster Mr which was furnished to Norwich City College . |
| 10 | I went on through into the dome car where there were three more bedrooms before one came to the bar , which was furnished with tables , seating and barman . |
| 11 | It was furnished with gilt , bevelled mirrors , chandeliers , gold-plated telephones , gold cigarette boxes studded with jewels , gold pens and inkwells . |
| 12 | The Queen 's sleeping compartment , beautifully appointed , was furnished with bedstead , dressing table , wardrobe , and armchairs . |
| 13 | In 66 per cent of the public referrals anyway this concern was validated on investigation . |
| 14 | The influence of pragmatism on the realist 's call for a social scientific approach to the study of law can also be readily detected since a basic tenet of pragmatism was to view practical judgment as an instrumental method of inquiry which was validated by society . |
| 15 | This time on board a train , which was stopped at Banbury . |
| 16 | A Peruvian man with drug-resistant tuberculosis was advised to come to Britain for treatment , but warned not to bring any medication in case he was stopped at immigration . |
| 17 | For eight of the 13 partial responders treamtent was stopped at week 24 and viral replication rebounded to pretreatment values . |
| 18 | The works of art were recovered when a car was stopped at roadworks on the A19 near Cleveland Tontine , Northallerton , on Thursday . |
| 19 | The dark blue £415,000 car was stopped between Preston and Lancaster on Sunday as Mr Vilaseca was heading for a holiday in Scotland . |
| 20 | The reaction was stopped by addition of 800μl of 0.25M NaOH and the absorbance at 410nm ( A 410 ) was measured . |
| 21 | The reaction was stopped by addition of 10% fetal calf serum in DMEM , cells were pelleted by centrifugation ( 300 g/ 10 min ) and resuspended in serum free medium . |
| 22 | Lindos 1 , 183–4 Blinkenberg ) , Heliodorus was stopped by miracles and compelled to admit the presence of a great god . |
| 23 | The Doctor led Howard to the door , but was stopped by Petion . |
| 24 | Samples were incubated for 10 minutes at 37°C before the reaction was stopped by removal of substrate and dilution by addition of 1.5 ml of 1:1 ( vol:vol ) H 2 O:Dowex-50W ( 200–400 , 8% cross linked , Na + -form ) . |
| 25 | A bus travelling from Haifa to Nahariya in the early spring of 1948 was stopped by Arabs who took the five Jewish passengers from the vehicle and cut their throats . |
| 26 | The lorry it was hidden in had come from Holland , but was stopped by customs officers at Sheerness Docks in Kent . |
| 27 | Bobby Anscombe had intended his ultimatum as an exit line , but he was stopped by Michael Banks , who had worked with him in the past and knew his volatile temper . |
| 28 | The fund had acted as a conduit for the money from ivory trade associations in Japan for one year , but this was stopped by Mr Lapointe , Mr Bohlen said , because he wanted the money to go directly to the secretariat . |
| 29 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 30 | But that was stopped by police officers at the scene . ’ |