Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 2 | Kevin John Porter , 28 , was stopped by police in Commercial Street , Darlington , last summer after drinking with a friend who asked him to fill up the car . |
| 3 | STABBED soccer ace Mickey Thomas 's ex-sister-in-law was remanded on bail in Prestatyn , accused of trying to murder him . |
| 4 | He was remanded in custody in Oxford last Saturday charged with the murder of all three . |
| 5 | Lenny McLean was remanded in custody in London 's newest prison , Belmarsh in Woolwich . |
| 6 | He was remanded in custody in Nottingham . |
| 7 | Probe size and labelling was checked by electrophoresis in urea polyacrylamide denaturing gels . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Allott , also 35 , was recalled from holiday in Wales to discover his fate , but it could hardly have been a surprise as he has not regularly figured in Lancashire 's games this season . |
| 10 | The founding of the White Lions dates back to the time of the bitter civil war with the Dark Elves when Caledor the First was recalled from hunting in Chrace to become the new Phoenix King . |
| 11 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 12 | Though it was pissing with rain in Spain . |
| 13 | On Jan. 20 , 1989 , Habyarimana had advised the refugees to remain in their place of asylum , although a Rwandan special refugee commission , to help and monitor refugees , was formed in Kigali in February 1989 [ see below for Rwanda-Uganda contacts ] . |
| 14 | The emphasis could well be changed once again , and may be switched back to the private sector , but in a new and different form — especially given the fact that an Urban Development Corporation was designated in Sheffield in March 1988 . |
| 15 | During his lifetime the suggestion was treated with hostility in Australia but migration schemes were under way by the 1920s . |
| 16 | One of the Bosian evacuees who was treated at hospital in Oxford has been told he wont be able to return home for several months . |
| 17 | Hussein was treated in hospital in Amman on June 11-13 for an irregular heartbeat . |
| 18 | A set of reasons was given for re-organisation in terms of linking an appropriate size to the functions to be performed in order to reap the benefits of the economies of scale . |
| 19 | Particular consideration was given to developments in Cambodia . |
| 20 | Almost his last public engagement was to go to London in October 1947 and attend the unveiling of the statue of King George V in Old Palace Yard . |
| 21 | However , he was prevented from standing on Oct. 19 , when the Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court 's Oct. 12 ruling that anyone who had been the author or beneficiary of a military coup was debarred from participation in elections under Article 186 of the 1986 Constitution . |
| 22 | Swan was the favourite to secure the lucrative contract until the yard was placed in receivership in May . |
| 23 | Following a period in the Far Eastern department of the Foreign Office , from November 1948 , he was posted to Washington in August 1950 as a second secretary with special responsibility for Far Eastern affairs , just after the beginning of the Korean war . |
| 24 | Lack of success then drove him back to Spain , where his best work was painted at Ronda in Andalusia . |
| 25 | ‘ Sunlit Patio was painted on location in Majorca , using Schmincke pastels on grey-toned Canson Mi-Teinte paper . |
| 26 | Similar work was undertaken by women in shoe-making . |
| 27 | The process of free elections for republican assemblies , begun in Slovenia and Croatia in April 1990 , was completed with elections in Yugoslavia 's four other constituent republics in November-December . |
| 28 | The most recent and most improbable Brady-plan deal , between oil-rich Venezuela and its bank creditors , was completed before Christmas in New York . |
| 29 | The car was traced to dealers in Nottingham where he 'd worked for nine years . |
| 30 | Calan was recovering at home in Brisbane , Australia , yesterday . |