Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jehan saw that Kadan 's sister Irina was coming across the grass , and he bowed to her . |
| 2 | Following the appeal court 's decision Bond was remanded on A$1000,000 bail until Oct. 5 , when the Perth district court was due to set a date for a new trial . |
| 3 | On the day after Rafeedie 's decision Alvarez was released from custody and allowed to return to Guadalajara . |
| 4 | By the time of Anselm 's death the question was essentially settled and Anselm 's successor Ralph was fighting in a hopeless cause : by the time of Ralph 's death , the instruments of universal government had become sufficiently highly developed to make all that Lanfranc and Anselm had stood for in this aspect of their work a thing of the past . |
| 5 | In Wednesday 's race Courtney was promoted to first place following the disqualification of the winner Nigel Davies but yesterday there was no such drama as Courtney led from start to finish to win by 20 seconds from Nigel Hansen with Greg Broughton third . |
| 6 | Jotan 's wife Arkhina was reclining on cushions in a nearby alcove , and her mother , a daughter of Arjun the Great , was engaged in conversation with the widow of her cousin , who had been parent to Nogai . |
| 7 | His idea wo n't work , says Beowulf , for the pressure on heroes to take blood-revenge is too strong — it seems , though this is speculation from other sources , that Ingeld 's father Fróda was killed by the Danish king who now wants to make alliance with his son . |
| 8 | During a match against Parr 's XI Felix was fielding at point for Sampson 's batting and he persisted in approaching to within a few feet of the batsman . |
| 9 | At the time of Mozart 's birth Leopold was working on his Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule [ Treatise on the fundamentals of violin-playing ] , a highly important theoretical and practical treatise , published later that year ( 2 ) ; it remained the standard violin method for a considerable time , both in the original German and in various translations . |
| 10 | Recently , however , in June 1989 , the skeleton of Charles 's cousin Nithard was disinterred in the graveyard at St-Riquier ; and archaeologists are confident of having located Charles 's fortification at Pîtres ( near Pont-de-l'Arche , dep . |
| 11 | Moore 's daughter Jacqueline was jailed for ten years for her part in the Droppin' Well bloodbath . |
| 12 | In Æthelred 's reign Ramsey was patronised by Ealdorman Æthelwine of East Anglia and his relatives , Ely by Ealdorman Brihtnoth and his kin . |
| 13 | During Spenser 's time Ireland was inhabited by three distinct groups . |
| 14 | Soon after Robert 's death William was called to Cambridge to discuss the resumption of work on the unfinished King 's College chapel with Henry Smyth , clerk and surveyor of the king 's works , and John Lee , who was to become joint master mason with John Wastell [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | But he does record that Clovis 's son Theuderic was approached by Hermanfrid , king of the Thuringians , who was intent on destroying his brother and fellow ruler , Baderic . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr and Mrs J 's son Alex was born with spina bifida . |
| 17 | Bridgit Walker 's son Benjamin was vaccinated against polio ten years ago when he was a few months old . |
| 18 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
| 19 | Marje and Sidney 's son Robert was born in 1941 . |
| 20 | Susanna married Dr John Hall in June , 1607 , and Will 's granddaughter Elizabeth was born in February the next year . |
| 21 | After the first shooting , father-of-two Pringle , 24 , raced back to Lyonette Road , Darlington , where his girlfriend 's mother Pauline was shot in the face . |
| 22 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |
| 23 | In 1039 Earl Leofric of Mercia 's brother Edwin was killed in battle by Gruffydd ap Llywelyn , king of Gwynedd and Powys ( north and mid-Wales ) , who was to extend his power over all his countrymen before meeting his death during Harold Godwinsson 's Welsh campaign of 1063 . |