Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 2 | She was ready now to admit that her mother was right , Hari was falling in love with Craig . |
| 3 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 4 | William Hinton was born in Naples in 1817 , the son of a Wiltshire landowner . |
| 5 | Egon Zehnder was founded in Switzerland by the still-practising Dr Zehnder , who was originally with Spencer Stuart . |
| 6 | Both generals had commanded units in Kurdish areas in south-east Turkey , and there was speculation that Dev Sol was working in co-operation with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 7 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 8 | Ania Bien was born in Poland in 1946 and lives and works in Amsterdam . |
| 9 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 10 | Captured by the Japanese in 1941 , David was interned in Shanghai for nine months , and contracted the sclerosis which caused him difficult last years and finally ended his life . |
| 11 | Mark Wiggins was described in court as a ’ Mr Fixit ’ who sold the drug to Denise Jones for four pounds . |
| 12 | When Roger Stubbs — now Bob Worcester 's number two at MORI — left the market research unit , Wanless was put in charge at just 24 , ‘ an unheard of young age for a job like that ’ . |
| 13 | A new five-year agreement for Soviet grain purchases from the United States was concluded in Vienna on March 22 , to replace the 1983 agreement due to expire at the end of 1990 . |
| 14 | The right for women to vote for the President of the United States was introduced in Wyoming in 1869 , when , according to Abler , Adams and Gould ( 1971 , p.446 ) ‘ frontier men and women chafed under archaic and undemocratic laws carried earlier from the East ’ . |
| 15 | Roger Edward Wentworth Manley was born in London on June 29 1930 and educated at King 's College School , Wimbledon , and London University . |
| 16 | A Mr. Nichols was put in charge as a surface foreman and Thomas Jones , working on the stamps , said to Barratt , " they is sure to work " . |
| 17 | When General Dankl 's First Army marched , to reach and take Lublin and Cholm , Auffenberg was to move in unison in the same direction . |
| 18 | Bobby was lying in bed in his room at the Gebler 's house in the Bronte district of Sydney . |
| 19 | The Leviathan was launched in Hamburg in 1913 but was subsequently sent to the United States as part of the First World War reparations , and eventually reached the ship-breaker 's yard in Rosyth in 1983 . |
| 20 | Most of Gould 's time on this first brief visit to Yarrundi was spent in pursuit of one particular bird — the Menura or lyre-bird that abounded in the cedar brush on the slopes of the Liverpool Range . |
| 21 | Following negotiations between the members of the ruling coalition , Franco Carraro was elected in mid-December as the first Socialist mayor of the city . |
| 22 | BURLY rugby international Moss Keane was recovering in hospital in Dublin today from a vicious mugging attack . |
| 23 | It is worth noting that the seal from Knossos was capped in gold at either end like the one from a Third Dynasty level at Ur . |
| 24 | Suddenly Rokeya was standing in front of her , looking down at her . |
| 25 | He did so very quickly , in about five minutes , while North was standing in front of his desk . |
| 26 | Guido Alberto Rossi was born in Milan in 1949 , photographing widely in the Middle East and Indochina until 1973 . |
| 27 | This considered in accordance with AFHQ FX 75383 dated 14 [ Robertson 's order of 14 May -this confirms that Low 's order of 17 May was issued in response to the Robertson order ] . |
| 28 | That application was refused and Reynolds was remanded in custody for 4 weeks . |
| 29 | As to the presumption , Mr. Philipson , while prepared to acknowledge that it would apply to the reasonableness test , submitted that it did not apply when considering whether the Bank of England was acting in performance of its functions . |
| 30 | The Church of England was disestablished in Ireland in 1868 . |