Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rock pin-up Ricky was performing at London 's Town & Country club when the £10,000 lighting tower crashed on to the stage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Boxer pup Toby was snatched near her Blackpool home a fortnight ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | After breakfast I decided to visit Brigade H.Q Taff was sitting on the grass just outside the trench cleaning his Bren gun . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eye witness Richard was driving behind the coach when the accident happened . |
| 9 | After Molly was called to do war work Peggy was helped by Edith Harlow . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Earlier that year on census night George was residing with his parents in Allerthorpe . |
| 12 | Convoy Aid Romania was threatened with legal action for illegal use of the symbol and coordinator Rod Jones was quizzed by police . |
| 13 | For the driving offence and the assault charge Penn was thrown in the pen for two months . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It is understood former Lord Mayor Carson was speaking during a debate on the Laganside Concert complex debate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Deputy Premier Cho Se Ung was dismissed in October for undisclosed reasons and demoted to regional party work ; he was not replaced . |
| 21 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 22 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 23 | During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams . |
| 24 | During the Second World War Ottringham was chosen as a site for a BBC station from which European broadcasts were relayed . |
| 25 | The binary radio pulsar PSR1718–19 was discovered in 1990 in a survey of globular clusters at Jodrell Bank at a frequency of 610MHz . |
| 26 | Trainee joiner Turner was acquitted at Isleworth Crown Court of causing actual bodily harm . |
| 27 | Their Staffordshire bull terrier Bodger was destroyed after the attack in their home at Lee-on-Solent , Portsmouth . |
| 28 | Defence Minister Shaposhnikov was pressing for unified command with a supreme commander in charge of all strategic and conventional forces , which would allow little room for republican armies . |
| 29 | Mr Goldring said that after Becky died her twin sister Katie was brought into the hospital purely for observation . |
| 30 | He reached her , he was face to face with her , the press girl Annabel was plucking at his clinging black roll-neck 's sleeve gingerly , with her fingertips . |