Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine out of every ten etchings by Rembrandt were printed after his death , the last edition appearing in 1906 . |
| 2 | The lively Priestley , on the right wing , created several Cambridge chances but they were either scorned or Maidenhead were rescued by their goalkeeper Atkins . |
| 3 | The lively Priestley , on the right wing , created several Cambridge chances but they were either scorned or Maidenhead were rescued by their goalkeeper Atkins . |
| 4 | Burn , Angell and Pownall were examined on their part in the judging ; Coe , Scott and Charles Barry junior as competitors ; and Sir Charles Barry as an architect who had ‘ directed much thought to the subject ’ . |
| 5 | He and his wife Ann were unstinting of their time in attending lectures , functions and committees and they won the affection and admiration of a great many people at all levels . |
| 6 | For example , coins minted with the name and portrait of the unpopular Roman Emperor Caligula were demonetised after his death in order to obliterate his memory . |
| 7 | and the members of the NEC were thanked for their work . |
| 8 | This afternoon the bodies of fifty two year old Roy Prescott and his forty seven year old wife Sue were taken from their cottage in this quiet Oxfordshire village . |
| 9 | On Emancipation Day Buxton was presented by his family with a seal , salver and vase — the two latter inscribed with the motto ‘ Safe and Satisfactory ’ . |
| 10 | I think he would have tore into Russell the next second , with his fists or his revolver , but now the Spencer was levelled at his belly ; almost touching it . |
| 11 | Rachel , her hands on her hips , half laughing with exasparation , wondered just what demands the formidable Irene Markham was putting on her son . |
| 12 | When he went in , Marie was sitting at her desk . |
| 13 | But less than half a mile from his home in Witney , Oxfordshire , 42-year-old Mr Adams was knocked off his bike and run over by a van . |
| 14 | Orton was dismissed from his position as Minister of Justice by Banda within weeks of Malawian independence in 1964 , and went into exile with Vera , also a lawyer , in Tanzania . |
| 15 | Singh was replaced by his arch-rival , Chandra Shekhar , who had spent the whole of 1990 courting anti-Singh colleagues within the Janata Dal . |
| 16 | Jean was clinging onto his arm , as though to stop him inflicting more hurt . |
| 17 | Down was celebrated for his work on so-called mongol children , a description of which first appeared in a paper , ‘ Observations on an Ethnic Classification of Idiots ’ ( London Hospital Reports , vol. iii , 1866 , pp. 259–62 ) . |
| 18 | Malicious , slanderous stories which claim the Lady Eleanor was murdered by your son so he could be with his beloved companion , the Gascon , Piers Gaveston . ’ |
| 19 | But most of these can be regarded as experimental works designed to clarify the problems that Picasso was facing in his painting . |
| 20 | Prince Andrew feared daughters Beatrice and Eugenie — already facing the turmoil of their parents ' split — would lose another source of stability if Sgt Ellery was stripped of his post . |
| 21 | Meredith was torn by his predicament . |
| 22 | There was no reason why she should know that Veronica was separated from her husband . |
| 23 | He was beaming with satisfaction as Manville was escorted into his office . |
| 24 | Morton reluctantly went over , and peered at the object which Burney was indicating with his probe . |
| 25 | But fate intervened and the young Countess of Donnington was thrown from her horse and , badly cut and bruised , lay concussed for two days and nights . |
| 26 | But now Jimbo was lying on his back , with his left leg almost flat on the bed . |
| 27 | Prince Richard was struck by her beauty — why , he asked himself , have not I noticed it before ? |
| 28 | Towards the end of 1182 Richard was summoned from his war in the Angoumois to attend his father 's Christmas court at Caen . |
| 29 | The Leader said deliberately : ‘ King Richard was drowned on his way home from the Crusade . |
| 30 | Indeed in one melee outside the gates Richard was thrown from his horse and rescued only by the strong arm of a sturdy butcher . |