Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 2 | This is indeed what happened although he held the office for over a year until the seat was found for him in 1877 . |
| 3 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | On their births a trust a fund of tens of thousands of pound was started for them in their names by their grandmother . |
| 7 | Injection was the sole route of use of less than 4 per cent of the clients , but in combination with other methods ( smoking and sniffing ) , injection was used by one in ten of the users . |
| 8 | I should be alone , and the old custom that clerks resigned on marriage was told to me in no uncertain way . |
| 9 | He had the impression whilst he paused to recover himself that Cornelius was watching him intently , that his piercing gaze was sweeping over him in search of every weakness , every strength , every facet of his character that an opponent might need to know . |
| 10 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 11 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 12 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 13 | That question was decided for her in a most terrible way . |
| 14 | In subsequent correspondence Technical Division were asked to confirm that the timing of the provision of the benefit to the non-resident or non-domiciled beneficiary was irrelevant , ie that it did not matter whether the income in question was paid to him in the year of assessment in which it arose or in a subsequent year , but Technical Division refused to confirm that this was the case on the grounds that the actual circumstances of particular cases tended to vary so widely that they felt unable to answer the question without more details . |
| 15 | So his whole war was spent with them in England , or , much later on , in Italy . |
| 16 | He said he had been assured that a hospital place was waiting for him in Leicestershire . |
| 17 | ‘ Every morning this time the bus is full of nuts , ’ the driver said with violence , not even visibly addressing me , though his right eye was glaring at me in his driving mirror . |
| 18 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 19 | In the end , a post was found for him in 1844 as palaeontologist with the Geological Survey , with a salary of 300 per year ; and on the strength of this in 1848 he married . |
| 20 | Since coming to Leeds from Lincoln City for £500 in 1906 , McCleod had scored 117 League goals in more than 200 games by the time a benefit match was held for him in April 1913 . |
| 21 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |
| 22 | The letter telling him of his disgrace was delivered to him in prison . |
| 23 | The picture was provided for them in terms of medical explanations with patterns of behaviour , development , and any personal or emotional problems accounted for by their medical condition . |
| 24 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 25 | Bad behaviour was expected of you in those times . |
| 26 | For December 14th 1804 he writes : ‘ finished the three drawings for Mr. Knowlys — Mrs. Green delivered of a dead daughter the child full grown ’ , and on January 23rd 1808 he wrote tersely ‘ My wife was delivered about one in the day of a daughter . ’ |
| 27 | The arms on a tea-tray we will be selling are those of the Duke of Northumberland and I am fascinated to read that his first wife was divorced by him in 1779 . |
| 28 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 29 | But in my case an exception was made , and girls from the year below mine were moved above me in House Order , as well as being made monitors who had special privileges . |
| 30 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |