Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 2 | Then the toot of a trumpet and the clown with the enormous sorrowful eyes was coming at her in her ring-side seat and she wanted to run away . |
| 3 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 4 | But the aforementioned medrese was bestowed upon him as the result of the letter of Ferhad Pasa . " |
| 5 | No further mention was made of her by Biff or Mother Bombie . |
| 6 | This is indeed what happened although he held the office for over a year until the seat was found for him in 1877 . |
| 7 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 8 | 11 To there friends who knew her , her self-assertion was born from nothing but a necessary and confident determination to succeed in an area where women rarely rose to prominence . |
| 9 | The Bristol Mail was heading towards them at the piteously slow speed of a horse and cart , urged forward by a sleep-weary teenage post-boy . |
| 10 | Naturally he would assume that Richard was staying with her for the weekend . |
| 11 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl around her shoulders and made her sit near the fire . |
| 12 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 13 | With Minton 's help he obtained work at the Royal College as an artist 's model until he decided to return home where his future was secured for him through marriage and the management of a pub . |
| 14 | From 21 March 1988 , this future was replaced by one on the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is the arithmetic equivalent of the VLCI . |
| 15 | Under the previous law the hooker was striking against no-one on his own ball and rarely competed on his opponents ball for he was involved in the eight man drive . |
| 16 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 17 | The bowler took none too kindly to the official warning from umpire Roy Palmer , and imagined that his sweater was returned to him at the end of the over in an insulting manner . |
| 18 | Jonadab was waiting for her at the stair bottom . |
| 19 | Beside her , Alan Markby was grinning to himself as if he knew what she was thinking . |
| 20 | To adhere to the ( 1855 ) treaty that has been made , and which we on our side have kept … you have broken the treaty not we … that engagement was made with us for 20 years … |
| 21 | A little later , Emily was looking through her accounts and came across a bill for French calf ; thoughtfully , she turned it over in her hands , Hari would need to buy the calf too and the usual practice was to pay for it at the end of the month . |
| 22 | He 'd send them then , he every dock was numbered from one to hundred and thirty and he 'd say righto , number one so and so , number five so and so and of course when they come back to the pool , they 'd go on the end of the rota . |
| 23 | ‘ You do n't think , ’ Mrs Young said , putting her finger unerringly on the implication , ‘ that the car was unhitched by someone in our party ? ’ |
| 24 | R. v. Ford Motor Company ( 1974 ) caused the Court of Appeal to consider two questions — ( i ) Had the defendants ‘ applied ’ the trade description ‘ new ’ when a car was supplied by them to a dealer for him to sell to a customer ? ( ii ) Was the trade description ‘ new ’ a false one in this case ? |
| 25 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 26 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 27 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 28 | ( Miklós was chuckling to himself at this . ) |
| 29 | The crucifixion was considered by them to be a unique event not subject to repetition . |
| 30 | On their births a trust a fund of tens of thousands of pound was started for them in their names by their grandmother . |