Example sentences of "and [noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon her aunt went to get the midday dinner , taking Victoria with her , and Melanie was left in charge . |
| 2 | Deadwood prospered and Costner was befriended by locals until they discovered he had drawn up plans for an 800-room hotel and conference centre nearby . |
| 3 | A friendship treaty between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia was initialled on Oct. 3 by the Soviet Foreign Minister , Boris Pankin , and his Czechoslovak counterpart , Jiri Dienstbier . |
| 4 | In 1844 his father left schoolmastering to become a druggist and Hargreaves was introduced to medicine and chemistry . |
| 5 | It was seven minutes past nine the following morning and Lisa was standing in Alexander Vass 's office , having reported for duty fifteen minutes earlier . |
| 6 | In 1356 a commission of oyer et terminer for the counties of Gloucester and Hereford was issued to Richard of Willoughby and five other judges , on information that John Gayner of St Briavels and a large number of others , banded together by oath , had committed many trespasses against vert and venison in the Forest of Dean , assaulted the foresters , and : |
| 7 | There was no application for bail and Rymer was remanded in custody until June 18 . |
| 8 | According to official results released on Dec. 22 , in the first round of presidential elections held on Nov. 25 , Albert Zafy of the Comité des forces vives won 45.16 per cent of votes cast , the incumbent President Didier Ratsiraka 19.22 per cent and Manandafy Rakotonirina of the Movement for Proletarian Power ( MFM ) 10.21 per cent ( there were five other candidates ) ; the date for the second round run-off between Zafy and Ratsiraka was set for Feb. 10 , 1993 . |
| 9 | A five-year agreement on trade and economic co-operation between the EC and Romania was signed on Oct. 22 . |
| 10 | Once the funeral was over and they were back in the parlour of the cosy farmhouse , the atmosphere lightened and Victoria was passed from group to group , chattering like an enchanting little doll . |
| 11 | The World Bank granted Algeria a total of dollars 341,000,000 in loans during its fiscal year ending June 30 , 1989 , including a dollars 63,000,000 loan for improvements to the ports of Algiers , Oran and Annaba was approved on June 29 ( see also pp. 36749 ; 36905 ) . |
| 12 | Bevin rang London from the hotel room , and Edward was rung at home half an hour later . |
| 13 | The second conference on peaceful reunification and relations between China and Taiwan was held in Hong Kong on July 8-10 . |
| 14 | By 1428 they had established a city state , nurtured by food production on the lake margins , but in 1521 the state fell to Cortés and Mexico was annexed by Spain . |
| 15 | Mr Carus said there was strike action and Gavin was hounded by refuse collectors to make on-the-spot hardship payments in pubs and clubs . |
| 16 | The simplest way of getting the outstanding items on board as cheaply as possible is by means of technology exchange and cross-licensing agreements , and COSE was seen as forum for effecting this . |
| 17 | The simplest way of getting the outstanding items on board as cheaply as possible , is through technology exchange and cross-licensing and COSE was seen as forum for this . |
| 18 | That application was refused and Reynolds was remanded in custody for 4 weeks . |
| 19 | Sir Benjamin Hawes , his Permanent Under Secretary , was appointed by Panmure , and Hammond was appointed by Clarendon . |
| 20 | And Lexandro was hurled from dreams of incandescence into that now sooty cavity . |
| 21 | His father retired in 1813 to London , and Auldjo was educated at Atwood 's School in Hammersmith , and Trinity College , Cambridge , where he matriculated as a pensioner in 1823 but did not take a degree . |
| 22 | At the time of the trial , Hegan was living in Coatbridge and earning a pittance as a Butlin 's Redcoat and Munro was living in Australia . |
| 23 | On Aug. 26 an intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Armenia , Azerbaijan , Estonia , Kirgizstan , Lithuania , Moldova , Turkmenistan and Ukraine was signed in Moscow . |
| 24 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Ginger ’ Hale was driving and Barnes was sitting between Robert Henley and myself in the back seat . |
| 26 | A 25-year friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance treaty between Kazakhstan and Russia was signed in Moscow on May 25 . |
| 27 | Originally , the showdown between Gazza and Maradona was scheduled for Munich , then switched to Rome and finally to Seville . |
| 28 | Vennard got 18 months for ‘ a deliberate and dangerous act ’ and Smillie was sent to prison for nine months . |
| 29 | Until then I was broke and Ted was left at home reminiscing with Mum about the war and trying to stop Jean from drinking . |
| 30 | It also follows a spate of takeovers for all the other big cognac houses in recent years when market leader Hennessy fell to LVMH , Seagram acquired Martell and Courvoisier was purchased by Allied-Lyons . |