Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [pron] [was/were] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1964 he was fined for singing the Irish national anthem , ‘ A Soldier 's Song ’ ( in Irish ) at a republican rally in Ballycastle , County Antrim . |
| 2 | In May 1989 it was sold for $24.2 million at Sotheby 's in New York , to Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza , the Swiss billionaire industrialist . |
| 3 | In December 1954 he was ridden for the first time by the reigning champion jockey Dick Francis : after the race Francis told Cazalet that he would like to ride Devon Loch one day in the Grand National … |
| 4 | In October 1988 that report was considered as is required by the complaints procedure by the relevant Commander of the Metropolitan Police and in November 1988 it was submitted for consideration by the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 5 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 6 | In October 1522 he conveyed two freehold houses and 1 ½ virgates to a certain Thomas Hyll , but subsequently seems to have taken up residence at Hagley , for in October 1526 he was presented for operating a brothel in which his own daughter was the star attraction : prostitution , it has been suggested , was a concomitant of deferred marriage , widespread among the peasantry of the West Midlands . |
| 7 | On 20 August 1584 he was apprenticed for eight years from 29 September to the distinguished printer Henry Denham [ q.v. ] ; |
| 8 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 9 | It was quite apparent in Derby that what was required for personnel was perhaps two systems not one — an administrative system ( IMS based ) and a management information system ( APL based ) . |