Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of their demise the land was infested by the mammal-like reptiles , which had the looks and probably the habits of rats : we are the descendants of such creatures . |
| 2 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 3 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 4 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 5 | The church was reconsecrated in the presence of HM the Queen in October 1958 as the Central Church of The RAF . |
| 6 | My imagination was furnished with the passionate martyrdom of the Protestant north . |
| 7 | The full-length private coach was furnished in the fashion of a ‘ club car ’ in the Pullman Service , but it also had a medium-sized galley and a fully equipped bar , with a chef and two porters to look after our needs . |
| 8 | After this first study , the resulting model of prediction of outcome at six weeks was validated on the next 28 patients admitted between January 1989 and May 1990 with their initial variceal bleed . |
| 9 | A new HNC in Golf Course Management was validated in the summer of 1992 , and will be offered by four colleges in session 1993–94 . |
| 10 | She went over to the Cookery and Refreshments Tent , but was stopped at the entrance by a pale-faced Constable Perkins . |
| 11 | Everything went according to plan and at noon the steward was stopped at the gate . |
| 12 | I knew she 'd better be told , otherwise she 'd get a bonnie fright when she was stopped at the paydesk and accused of shoplifting . |
| 13 | I was stopped at the horse-car entrance by a locked door and , in response to my repeated knocking , by a determined female who told me I was n't welcome . |
| 14 | An exhibition of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century watercolours from the Hermitage , which was planned for Kaliningrad , was stopped at the Latvian customs . |
| 15 | He drove out onto Mount Pleasant and was stopped at the temporary lights where the new sewer pipe was going in . |
| 16 | He went down the stairs and was stopped at the sound of voices . |
| 17 | Jehana 's mare was stopped at the far end of it , and Alexei was at her side . |
| 18 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 19 | It was begun in 1794 , but the first borings were a total failure , due to unsatisfactory design and materials , and unforeseen and excessive seepage of water into the workings , and work was stopped on the proposed two-mile-long tunnel in 1796 . |
| 20 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 21 | They were awarded a penalty try when winger Carl Knight was stopped on the line by a very high tackle , and then the pack gave Osborne a pushover try . |
| 22 | He was stopped on the M6 last week , at an alleged 105mph . |
| 23 | Christian Vilaseca , 57 — who lives in Paris and heads imports of Jaguars into France — was stopped on the M6 in Lancashire by a police Range Rover after allegedly travelling at 105mph . |
| 24 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 25 | He said the taxi was stopped on the underdeck of Craigavon Bridge and four men , including the three accused , were arrested . |
| 26 | One motorist who was stopped on the way to Bushmills said : ‘ The police were pulling in cars and coaches and taking teenagers out and searching them and the vehicles . |
| 27 | This car was stopped on the hard shoulder of the M4 just west of Swindon , after a motorway chase from South Wales . |
| 28 | The Table shows the extent of histological injury , which compares the damage seen immediately after ethanol perfusion was stopped with the damage seen 180 minutes after ethanol . |
| 29 | Jasbir Singh was stopped for the second time in two days driving his blue Ford Escort van . |
| 30 | He was stopped outside the Lloyds Bank by the entrance to Boundary Hall . |