Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Dave Bassett and his side were left with nothing after probably their best away performance of the season . |
| 2 | Bales of material of every type and hue were spread before her for her approval . |
| 3 | In late February his arrest was ordered as charges of rebellion with murder were filed against him in a Manila court . |
| 4 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 5 | But the aforementioned medrese was bestowed upon him as the result of the letter of Ferhad Pasa . " |
| 6 | No further mention was made of her by Biff or Mother Bombie . |
| 7 | This is indeed what happened although he held the office for over a year until the seat was found for him in 1877 . |
| 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| 9 | Dr Neil registered how withdrawn she was , and once they were back home hot , sugary tea was poured down her in a constant stream , and then , despite the warmth of the day , Matey put a shawl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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | From 21 March 1988 , this future was replaced by one on the Value Line Arithmetic index , which is the arithmetic equivalent of the VLCI . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The crucifixion was considered by them to be a unique event not subject to repetition . |
| 20 | On their births a trust a fund of tens of thousands of pound was started for them in their names by their grandmother . |
| 21 | His wife Janet said that she had not seen the quarry after a fence was put round it after the deaths . |
| 22 | Its effect was described to me by a white probationary teacher : |
| 23 | In 1872 he introduced at Victoria on the Metropolitan District Railway an automatic train-protection system whereby a red lens positioned in front of a white signal light was raised above it on actuation from an electrical contact only when the section ahead was clear . |
| 24 | Superlatives were flung , contracts were signed , tours were n't bothered with and , eventually , an album , ‘ Delaware ’ , was released last summer , where fluffy textures were toughened up and sweetness and light was offset by plenty of calculated chaos and nastiness . |
| 25 | The script was handed to him by Casper Wrede , a director friend from the Royal Exchange who directed him on screen in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . |
| 26 | The petition was not successful but a deputation to Sir James Graham , Home Secretary , in April 1842 received some encouragement and an amended petition and a draft of a Charter of Incorporation was submitted to him on 24 March 1843 . |
| 27 | The figure was mentioned to me by the manager of a gay bar who was justifying the role of the establishment , but added , ‘ some of them are not angels you know . |
| 28 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that figure was forced upon him by Ministers collectively . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |