Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present Church of Senhor Bom Jesus was built after a terrible fire on 12 July 1908 destroyed the original building . |
| 2 | Two weeks before the transfer deadline , and in a desperate bid to clinch Manchester United 's first Championship in 25 years , Ferguson made a call to David Pleat at Luton , where Chelsea striker Harford was playing at the time . |
| 3 | A one-year stint as assistant lecturer at University College London was followed in 1928 by a year of research in the United States and the West Indies , financed by a Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial studentship . |
| 4 | Neither of these names appeared to fit in Scotland but at that time the Mayor of New York was Mickie Walker and forever after through the aircraft industry George was known as Mickie . |
| 5 | Rock pin-up Ricky was performing at London 's Town & Country club when the £10,000 lighting tower crashed on to the stage . |
| 6 | A young woman who was dressing the female dummies in the lingerie department window Steven was looking at frowned at him and gave him a suspicious , disapproving look which he noticed her just in time to see . |
| 7 | Boxer pup Toby was snatched near her Blackpool home a fortnight ago . |
| 8 | The 50 ton capacity Craven Steam Crane was restored to working order following acquisition from British Rail , and it has already proved its worth in moving signals , and a footbridge on the line , and to re-rail a locomotive . |
| 9 | After breakfast I decided to visit Brigade H.Q Taff was sitting on the grass just outside the trench cleaning his Bren gun . |
| 10 | Tottenham striker Durie was cleared on Wednesday by an FA Appeal Board of feigning injury during a match against Coventry on August 18 . |
| 11 | On this occasion , the three-and-a-half-kilometre journey over the Ponte della Liberta was accomplished with ease and comfort . |
| 12 | The Piazza della Scala was created in 1859–60 when several old buildings between what is now La Scala and the Palazzo Marino were pulled down . |
| 13 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 14 | Eye witness Richard was driving behind the coach when the accident happened . |
| 15 | After Molly was called to do war work Peggy was helped by Edith Harlow . |
| 16 | Coventry manager Gould was advised by West Brom chairman Trevor Summers not to go because police feared a fans ' backlash after Gould 's sacking by the club last season . |
| 17 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |
| 18 | Earlier that year on census night George was residing with his parents in Allerthorpe . |
| 19 | Convoy Aid Romania was threatened with legal action for illegal use of the symbol and coordinator Rod Jones was quizzed by police . |
| 20 | For the driving offence and the assault charge Penn was thrown in the pen for two months . |
| 21 | The strike call drew only a modest response , with an estimated 6,000 stopping work instead of the 60,000 projected by the Sandinista media ( whose radio station Radio Primerísima was destroyed by dynamite on Sept. 30 ) . |
| 22 | It is understood former Lord Mayor Carson was speaking during a debate on the Laganside Concert complex debate . |
| 23 | In terms of a planning process Anne was talking about , you 'll have to forgive me for being relatively new to Oxfordshire and coming from an area where we had a planning system which was largely the one I was describing , and the planning role that I saw I wanted to develop was very much already mentioned which was actually going round to small groups of people , to the local caring groups on a much more informal basis , and getting their contribution about that and then feeding it back into the system , which you say is there in a sense . |
| 24 | Worst of all , Christ Church Canterbury was burnt in 1011 and its archbishop murdered the following year after refusing to be ransomed . |
| 25 | Unlike Diana who was christened in Sandringham church and had well-to-do commoners for godparents , baby brother Charles was christened in style at Westminster Abbey with the Queen as principal godparent . |
| 26 | Kelly was talking for the first time since Brentford striker Blissett was acquitted of assaulting Torquay defender John Uzzell last week . |
| 27 | Dick Goldsmith White was educated at Bishop 's Stortford College in Hertfordshire and Christ Church , Oxford . |
| 28 | At the Apollo 16 landing site ejecta from the crater South Ray was examined for the effects of exposure and it is estimated to have been exposed on the surface for about 2 Ma . |
| 29 | On this day : Captain Cook landed in New Zealand , 1769 ; the Polar Star and Boston Daily Advertiser newspaper was first issued , US 1796 ; the Rainhill trials of railway locomotives began , 1829 ; the Mormons in Utah renounced bigamy , 1890 ; Sir Henry Wood began Promenade Concerts at the Queen 's Hall , London , 1895 ; Manchester University was opened , 1903 ; Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina , 1908 ; 243 people died when the US freighter Ticonderoga was sunk by a German U-boat , 1918 ; the Jazz Singer , the first feature-length talking film , began showing in New York , 1927 ; Chiang Kai-shek became president of China , 1928 ; the first production of the musical show Nymph Errant was presented , London , 1933 ; the Berlin airlift ended , 1949 . |
| 30 | The launch of the space shuttle Columbia was delayed for the third time since May following the discovery of a fuel leak near its engines . |