Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lane 's partnership with the printer of the Star , Peter Stuart [ q.v. ] , was curtailed in 1789 at the time of the Regency Bill , when Stuart allegedly printed anti-Pitt propaganda ; in revenge , Stuart began a short-lived rival to the Star in which Lane was pilloried as a ‘ scribbling poulterer ’ and his paper as the ‘ Dog Star ’ . |
| 2 | A nearby tray was furnished with a mug and a large plate scattered with the crumbs of a large slice of cake . |
| 3 | They had a cavernous basement room which they had painted apricot and white , to cheer it up ; it was furnished with a double divan , two very old arm-chairs with curvaceous rolled arms and head-rests , plum and plushy and dusty , a second-hand stained-oak office desk , where Roland worked , and a newer varnished beech desk , where the typewriter sat . |
| 4 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 5 | Harriet 's drawing room , the equivalent of Rose Cottage 's humbler living room situated in the front of the building , was furnished with a mixture of modern comfortable easy chairs and several nice old pieces , a Victorian roll-top desk and a little Regency card table among them . |
| 6 | Like Finn , she believed that Lydia had now relented , mistaking her lack of interest for compliance , which led to further misunderstandings at bedtime when Lydia told Finn that he was to sleep in the tiny room where she kept the oil lamps which was furnished with a camp bed and sleeping-bag . |
| 7 | It was furnished with a certain meanness of equipment that made them feel like poor relations . |
| 8 | While they waited in the room , which was furnished like a nursing home , with the child reading a comic on the bed and eating a bag of shortbread biscuits , she thought that it was as well to be next door to the railway station in case she had to get away quickly . |
| 9 | It was furnished in a style which was new to the tall boy . |
| 10 | In one demonstration my car was stopped at a hospital entrance but it soon became clear that much of the resentment was directed at what were seen as remote hospital authorities ‘ up there , . |
| 11 | A UN military observer , Colonel Walter van Dijk , who was with the convoy when it was stopped at a police and army barricade in Serbia yesterday , said the fate of the convoy had been ‘ resolved at the highest level ’ . |
| 12 | I took the Klepper to eastern Slovakia in search of interesting , lively touring rivers , right up to the Russian border where further progress in this connection was stopped with a big ‘ Niet ’ . |
| 13 | Vlasman boxed superbly before a capacity crowd and was well on top when his opponent , G Reid ( Wolverhampton ) was stopped with a cut eye in the third . |
| 14 | The nuns are young because fresh recruitment — of monks as well as nuns — was stopped during a decade of suppression and allowed only after reform in 1981 initiated by the then Communist Party secretary-general , Mr Hu Yaobang . |
| 15 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 16 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 17 | Along the route he was stopped by a dwarf and led into the mountain , where he was told to empty his grain sacks and fill them with gold . |
| 18 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 19 | It was stopped by a passenger , Mr. Leonard Tofield , of Elmers End Road , who strained his wrist applying the hand brake . |
| 20 | The following morning the convoy was stopped by a one-person LAG picket . |
| 21 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 22 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 23 | She 'd almost started out , but she was stopped by a touch on her arm . |
| 24 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 25 | ‘ I was stopped by a catch fence at the field which undoubtedly saved me . ’ |
| 26 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 27 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 28 | A short time later , on the other side of Hereford , a motorist was stopped by a white car with a blue light on top . |
| 29 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 30 | Forty thousand pounds worth of the drug was found in a car that was stopped in a routine check . |