Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was stopped in plenty of time and a few VIP and press party on board were even aware of the drama outside . |
| 2 | So erm in fairness to him I think he was plunged into something he did n't have a hell in er hope in at that time of coping with . |
| 3 | Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place . |
| 4 | But the look on Vanessa Delaney 's face as she watched her son edge his way through the tables was tinged with something that had no place in such a mundane event . |
| 5 | She woke in the half-gloom of early morning to find her body slicked with sweat and all the bedclothes flung off , her nightdress in such a tangle that the soft creamy skin of her thighs was exposed to anyone who cared to look . |
| 6 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 7 | Each of these future estates , though it gave no present right to possession or enjoyment , was treated as something already in existence , which could be disposed of and would descend ( so far as it is inheritable ) just like a present estate . |
| 8 | ‘ I was treated as something very special and talented . |
| 9 | Often , it was not only the arts which were seen as less useful , but university subjects like physics : the physical science degree was regarded as one which was more useful for getting jobs in industry . |
| 10 | Faraday had begun as a chemist , and indeed was regarded as one by most contemporaries throughout his life . |
| 11 | A change of diagnosis was regarded as one in which manometry resulted in a diagnosis that had not previously been made by other investigations even if clinically suspected — for example a diagnosis of nutcracker oesophagus in a patient presenting with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 12 | This part of the ceremony was regarded as nothing more than formal ritual . |
| 13 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember which teacher it was referred to anything Orcadian we used as Orkneyisms . |
| 16 | She 's more inclined to think that his neck was broken by someone wrenching his head back with considerable force . ’ |
| 17 | But on that morning my happiness was clouded by something he said to me as we were walking home to lunch : ‘ Your parents know about you , Jim — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 18 | The non-assertive quality is of course obvious in all the uses of blend dare which parallel those of the full modal : ( 48 ) And when I saw he was attracted by someone else , the fear and the jealousy that seized me ! |
| 19 | What could he do — what could anyone do — when a doctor was blamed for something of which he was not guilty ? |
| 20 | Responsibility was claimed by someone who ended his call with the words " Heil Hitler ! " . |
| 21 | After a moment , my eye was caught by something lying in the gutter at the base of the parapet , then almost immediately by two similar objects at the opposite end . |
| 22 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 23 | The investigation will explore : ways of asking about sensitive issues ; the prevalence of a number of forms of sexual abuse ( for example , incest , rape , involvement in pornography ) ; whether the abuse was reported to anyone ; what coping strategies were used at a time ; and what the impact has been over time . |
| 24 | The peace and quiet of the morning was shattered by someone bellowing something from the direction of Brigade H.Q Suddenly into view comes the Brigadier , Derek Mills Roberts . |
| 25 | because it 's not the way that er it was designed for it , it was designed for something in which men pressed forward |
| 26 | But even the best option feels like making the best of a bad situation — the square peg of this escalating health and social problem is being forced into the round hole of a system of service rationing which was designed with anyone but drug and alcohol misusers in mind . |
| 27 | His voice was muffled by something — could it be that he was smoking a cigar even whilst disembodied ? |
| 28 | O Leary was booked for nothing . |
| 29 | And for a moment despair was overwhelmed by something more lively : by a sensation of such disgust that for just that one moment I was almost galvanized into rebellion . |
| 30 | The debt problem was solved by someone he hardly knew paying his debt and Seawright was elected to the Assembly where he turned out to be a thorn in the DUP 's flesh . |