Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [adv] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bede 's opinion , Aldfrith was most learned in the Scriptures ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 2 | Scottish champion Jim Mailer was not included in the main draw ; Bruce Flockhart had to pull out because of a leg injury ; and Gordon and Jillian Haldane withdrew because of a family bereavement . |
| 3 | ‘ I have loved Jacob , ’ says the God of Malachi ( 1.2–3 ; Malachi was probably written in the first half of the fifth century BCE ) , ‘ but I have hated Esau . ’ |
| 4 | Kim was frequently regarded in the West as a Soviet stooge but this was erroneous . |
| 5 | The abbey of Tavistock was burnt in 997 , and that of Cerne later despoiled by Cnut , while St Mary 's church in Exeter was seemingly destroyed in the sack of 1003 , and the nunnery at Minster-in-Thanet at some stage in Æthelred 's reign . |
| 6 | When I wrote my novel Hitler Needs You ( we were the people Hitler needed most ) it was picked up for review by Elizabeth Thomas , literary editor of Tribune , as being the one book for her which showed what England was really like in the thirties . |
| 7 | Her Vauxhall Nova was badly damaged in the smash with a Ford Fiesta driven by Susan Cawthorne , 33 , of Ox Close , Washington . |
| 8 | Knowledge of the geomantic alignment of Stamford was deliberately suppressed in the period following the Reformation , when the monastic sites were dissolved . |
| 9 | Both Campeanu and Ratiu were prevented from addressing rallies ; on May 5 Campeanu was violently attacked in the eastern town of Braila and on May 11 Ratiu was prevented from addressing a rally in Oradea , near the Hungarian border . |
| 10 | When Charles de la Tremoille was mortally wounded in the battle of Marignano in 1515 , his death brought pride for his family since he died fighting for the public good in an engagement at which the king of France himself had been present . |
| 11 | Sandra hid in undergrowth nearby as Robert was repeatedly stabbed in the chest and beaten by the gang . |
| 12 | Knight was not included in the England side that lost 2–1 to Scotland at Wembley on Saturday . |
| 13 | It is alleged that Mr Buckley was severely injured in the explosion and that Sutherland knew he was trapped and had not told the emergency services that anyone was in the blazing house . |
| 14 | By means of an appeal to Lenin , Bashkirs were able to secure some positions in the government , only to have their agreement with Moscow cancelled a year later when Bashkiria was forcibly incorporated in the RSFSR . |
| 15 | Furthermore , William of Jumièges was probably writing in the 1050s , after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Robert 's son William , and it was fairly clearly this which led him to repeat Dudo of St Quentin 's story of the English king who entered into a pact with the Normans and later received Rollo 's assistance against rebels , to include accounts of Anglo-Norman relations in the days of Æthelred and Cnut , and to end his description of Cnut 's conquest of England and marriage to Emma by stating that he had wished to explain King Edward 's origins to those who were ignorant of them . |
| 16 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher was not considered in The Wagon Mound ( No. 1 ) , though it has been argued elsewhere in this book that there is no reason for refusing to apply the principles of foreseeability as developed since The Wagon Mound . |
| 17 | Bruce was still lost in the red mists of temper seven minutes later when Simpson , City 's impressive recruit from Swindon , released White with a splendid pass — and Bruce tracked him almost to the deadball line before scything him down . |
| 18 | His long struggle to prevent the development of a rival port in neighbouring Parton was finally lost in the last months of Lowther 's life . |
| 19 | But she was too late : Trevor was already paddling in the treacle , and Maudie swooped down to pick him up . |
| 20 | Luke shows how the close relationship between God and Jesus was already forming in the twelve-year-old . |
| 21 | With the mounting balance-of-payments crisis , the TUC was reluctantly persuaded in the summer of 1976 to renew a virtual wage-freeze policy with a limit of 5 per cent increases for the next twelve months . |
| 22 | Ralph was still waiting in the doorway . |
| 23 | A papyrus of the Middle Kingdom , Papyrus Prisse , recounts " The Instruction for Kagemni " , teachings of wisdom supposedly written for his benefit by his father and which demonstrate that Kagemni was still remembered in the Twelfth Dynasty . |
| 24 | Billy was still slouched in the corner with his left leg stretched across the seat and his right arm around Mary 's neck . |
| 25 | When he climbed into the driver 's seat he saw that McGowan was already sitting in the back . |
| 26 | McGowan was still sitting in the back , Creed had moved into the front . |
| 27 | Indeed Michael Blair did it full justice several times last night and who says Josef Locke was n't standing in the wings giving it an envied ear … |
| 28 | In effect , it was the mass application of a tactic Franco was frequently to apply in the political arena : divide and rule . |
| 29 | Brian Roberts has been able to show how the Forest of Arden in north Warwickshire was systematically settled in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , with hundreds of new moated farmsteads being created . |
| 30 | Dishy Malcolm was already working in the office , but Doreen had not yet arrived . |