Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was stood in the wings refilling the whisky decanter , picturing herself seated at a concert grand on the platform of the Philharmonic Hall — Meredith was in the front row gazing up at her with adoration — when three men walking one behind the other filed through the pass-door into the auditorium . |
| 2 | Among the Best Actor losers , Dustin was in the prestigious company of Paul Newman ( Cool Hand Luke ) , Warren Beatty ( Bonnie and Clyde ) . |
| 3 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 4 | One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks . |
| 5 | Richard Barnett was at the finishing line . |
| 6 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 7 | ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge . |
| 8 | Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order . |
| 9 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 10 | It was also natural , given that Crete was on the southern edge of that world , that most , though not all , of the ports were on the north coast . |
| 11 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 12 | Now Ellen was on the other line . |
| 13 | Ken was in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a year — Maggie left slightly earlier to play in May , May . |
| 14 | By this time Travis was on the horrible scene of the accident , the bloodstained white dress revealing a gruesome sight . |
| 15 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 16 | Apart from the deliberate references to Theodoric and Charlemagne , which are intended to show that Frederick Barbarossa was of the same mould as these great heroes , the description of the Kaiserslauten palace is especially interesting . |
| 17 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 18 | The ideological muddle forged with passionate lyricism by Michel A'flaq was in the final analysis , inspired by the romanticism of Herder and other German thinkers . |
| 19 | Gould was with the one man who could introduce him most convincingly to the alliances between geography and the native flora and fauna of the continent . |
| 20 | Jane was in the tiny kitchen talking quietly to Mrs Rooney , a tiny white-haired woman , who spoke with a broad Scottish accent . |
| 21 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |
| 22 | The quiet Gloucestershire village of Charfield was on the main line of the LMS , situated between Gloucester and Bristol . |
| 23 | Nell was on the other side of the bridge , keeping a look out . |
| 24 | ‘ Find me the most audacious of men ! ’ he ordered his Chief of Staff who , a few weeks later , diffidently informed the Prince that the notorious Major Sharpe was on the half-pay list and evidently unemployed . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , Liverpool striker Ronny Rosenthal was in the European League select side that was beaten 4-2 by Italian champions AC Milan in a charity match in Milan yesterday . |
| 26 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
| 27 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 28 | When he was sure that Zhukov was in the right position , Kirov let him go . |
| 29 | The royal monogram ER was on the front cover and immediately beneath the monogram were the words SUPPLIED FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE . |
| 30 | At 11.42am the Toyota was in the head-on collision with a Vauxhall Cavalier in which a family of four from West Kirby was travelling to Chester Zoo . |