Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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1 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
2 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
3 | Richard was stabbed to death in the back garden of his home in Newtown 4 weeks ago . |
4 | When General Dankl 's First Army marched , to reach and take Lublin and Cholm , Auffenberg was to move in unison in the same direction . |
5 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
6 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
7 | Like Multitude and Solitude , it is an early exploration of the quest-adventure , man 's search for beauty as an ideal in human form , which Masefield was to bring to fruition in two later novels , Sard Harker and Odtaa . |
8 | Jay Kelly Pinkerton was sentenced to death in Texas for a murder committed when he was 17 years old . |
9 | NAPAP was created by Congress in 1980 to study the effects and extent of acid rain caused by industrial air pollutants . |
10 | SEXY Top Of The Pops star Claudia Simon was rushed to hospital in agony after eating some dodgy olives . |
11 | It is curious that the title of the City of Ripon was confirmed by statute in 1865 . |
12 | Legend has it that Sarah Helen was put to death in her home town of Blackburn for practising witchcraft , locked alive inside a lead coffin . |
13 | As the most avaricious of the courtiers Damory was put under restraint in November 1317 by Aymer de Valence , Earl of Pembroke , and Bartholomew Badlesmere [ qq.v. ] , both of them moderates among Edward 's associates , who imposed on Damory a written undertaking not to profit excessively from the king 's generosity nor to permit others to do so . |
14 | Cameron was educated at home in a remote farmhouse with his younger brother and sister by parents Val and Phil . |
15 | Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat . |
16 | As with many of the city 's churches , San Nazaro was gutted by fire in the early Middle Ages , when light could only be provided by open flames and work on roofs meant using braziers to melt lead . |
17 | After serving his apprenticeship as a potter , Josiah Wedgwood was taken into partnership in 1754 by Thomas Whieldon of Fenton , the greatest English potter of his time . |
18 | The Van Railway was opened for freight in 1871 and for passengers in 1873 . |
19 | John Wood Group PLC 's £1,000 commission was awarded to Andrew Braidwood and his piece entitled Hamburg was purchased for display in John Wood House . |
20 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
21 | PC Blakelock was hacked to death in the Tottenham riots of 1985 . |
22 | In the 1830s Paris was plunged after dark in Stygian gloom : |
23 | 29 year old Steven Mynott was sentenced to life in 1980 for the murder of a 54 year old man . |
24 | Through such thought and writing the spirit of Dicey was fashioned into orthodoxy in public law . |
25 | Corporal Harry Farr was shot for cowardice in October nineteen sixteen . |
26 | The House of Lords was forced by statute in 1911 to accept its diminished status . |
27 | After the brief administration of Sosuke Uno , Kaifu was plucked from obscurity in order to act as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Recruit scandal had receded . |
28 | BARBARA Bush was admitted to hospital in Miami yesterday after being taken ill on a Caribbean cruise , a local radio station reported . |
29 | It 's now a week since seventy six year old Arthur Brumhill was battered to death in the pet shop where he worked . |
30 | A TEENAGE horsewoman fought off a man who attacked her on Wimbledon Common yesterday almost a year after young mother Rachel Nickell was stabbed to death in the same area . |