Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1911 , following six months ' military service with the Danish infantry , Rambush was invited to England by Arthur H. Lymn , who had formed a business in London to further develop and exploit commercially existing processes of gas production for industrial purposes . |
| 2 | J. G. C. Anderson was recruited in 1937 and T. R. M. Lawrie was transferred from England in 1939 . |
| 3 | The deal was won by TVMM against strong competition from Scottish Televison , which used to be part of the same organisation as Grampian . |
| 4 | A similar deal was signed with Yugoslavia on June 24 , allowing for the bilateral transit of 180,000 vehicles . |
| 5 | When the vastly popular Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis was appointed to Canada in 1946 , Letson — as a soldier with wide connections in business and society — proved an admirable choice as Secretary to the Governor-General . |
| 6 | The same reasoning was used in Lewis v Lethbridge [ 1987 ] Crim LR 59 ( DC ) : The accused received £54 in sponsorship money for a colleague who entered the London Marathon . |
| 7 | The 315th Troop Carrier Group of the 9th Air Force was stationed at Spanhoe near Harringworth . |
| 8 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 9 | The Anglo-Italian — also blighted by low gates — saw four players sent off in Birmingham 's match with Bari two weeks ago , while West Ham 's Trevor Morley was dismissed on Tuesday against Reggiana at Upton Park and Cremonese 's Luigo Gualco was shown the red card at Tranmere . |
| 10 | Walker was watched by Roxburgh on Saturday when Hearts beat Dundee United at Tynecastle and was rated ‘ outstanding ’ by the national coach , who once worked with the goalkeeper at Scotland Youth level 12 years ago . |
| 11 | I see Speed was replaced by Pemberton at half-time last night . |
| 12 | A meeting of 120 " anti-imperialist " representatives of Arab political parties and organizations was held in Amman on Sept. 15-17 . |
| 13 | The Lewes trainer was cleared in August of passing weights to jockey son Mark after Carfax had won at Lingfield in February . |
| 14 | Out of all these considerations a Pact of Mutual Assistance and Unified Command was concluded in Warsaw on 14 May 1955 . |
| 15 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 16 | William Hinton was born in Naples in 1817 , the son of a Wiltshire landowner . |
| 17 | Egon Zehnder was founded in Switzerland by the still-practising Dr Zehnder , who was originally with Spencer Stuart . |
| 18 | The Annual Dinner of the Stoddard Golf Club was held in November at its traditional venue in the Elderslie Village Hall . |
| 19 | Yes , there is a ski garderie in Verbier ; unfortunately it is in the centre of the village , and since there was no snow in the village the Mini Champion Club was closed from January for the rest of the season . |
| 20 | Already there were signs of the wide range of West Midlands trades : a weaver was recorded in Yardley in 1556 , and there were several millers and brewers . |
| 21 | One seat was lost by UUUC to an independent in Fermanagh and South Tyrone as a consequence of an arrangement by which the anti-Unionist vote was not split between SDLP and Unity . |
| 22 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 23 | A formal reply was delivered to Gorbachev in Moscow on March 19 by a Lithuanian Supreme Council delegation led by Algirdas Brazauskas ( the independent Lithuanian Communist Party leader and formerly Lithuania 's President , and since March 17 a Deputy Premier in the new Lithuanian government ) . |
| 24 | Her brother who had been a soldier was killed in Flanders during the Second World War and was buried there . |
| 25 | So when a new agent was appointed in Ecclesall in 1912 he was recommended as having come from " the great school of Liverpool , where he worked for Mr James Thompson " . |
| 26 | An agent was despatched from London to Jersey to check on the dead activist Varienski 's daughter . |
| 27 | By any standard the industry was not extensive : Berkshire was bracketed with Herefordshire at the bottom of a list of clothiers fined at Blackwell Hall in 1561 — 2 for marketing substandard cloth , with just one offender , a Reading man ; unless Berkshire workmanship in general was above average , production was clearly small in volume . |
| 28 | Grandson Richard was looking at Masklin down the length of his nose . |
| 29 | Richard was taken to Stratford-upon-Avon for a week where they saw Marlowe 's Dr Faustus and the ex-schoolteacher had his ward up in the morning in the hotel gardens to study and learn by heart the great speeches . |
| 30 | In his teens , with his father 's health deteriorating , Richard was taken to Hollywood to be his ‘ personal assistant ’ . |