Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he was to get £30,000 to £40,000 for his role , and added : ‘ I went down the A82 via Fort William before I was stopped by police at Doune . ’ |
| 2 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As the Waaagh roamed freely over the Worlds Edge Mountains it was joined by multitudes of Goblins including the Night Goblin tribes of Red Eye Mountain and many Forest Goblin tribes from the Great Forest . |
| 5 | The monument was erected by friends of Camus after his death . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he was reinstated by envoys of Charlemagne and Pope Leo in 809 . |
| 7 | Cirencester , Gloucestershire-based start-up , Beaver Valley Systems Ltd , has signed to market Precision Visuals International 's PV Wave visual analysis software : BVS , an X-Windows specialist was formed by refugees from Meiko and DEC . |
| 8 | The resolution was dismissed by aides of Israel 's Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir , who asserted that it was " a pity " that the UN found it necessary repeatedly to condemn Israel when the real Middle East crisis was in the Gulf . |
| 9 | In November 1990 the Harms Commission , set up by the government to investigate allegations of political murders , had recommended an investigation of allegations that the CCB was implicated in assassinations of ANC activists . |
| 10 | Mr Connor was treated for burns at Hereford General Hospital and later discharged . |
| 11 | Particular consideration was given to developments in Cambodia . |
| 12 | In consultation with GLC staff , attention was given to parts of London where changes over the decade were especially relevant to foreseeable issues of transport and planning policy , such as possible changes in transport or the location of homes and jobs . |
| 13 | Assistance was given by brigades from Stony Stratford and Newport Pagnell . |
| 14 | In the run-up to the country 's first multiparty elections for 43 years , scheduled for March 25 , the ruling Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was shaken by revelations during January that the Interior Ministry 's security police had not stopped covert surveillance of the activities of opposition politicians , despite the enactment during the past 12 months of laws and constitutional amendments creating a multiparty system [ see pp. 36399 ; 36960-61 ] . |
| 15 | Most recently of all , the industry was shaken by signals from Whitehall last year that the size and shape of the armed forces might be transformed . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The car was traced to dealers in Nottingham where he 'd worked for nine years . |
| 18 | Elisabeth stretched out full length on the couch and listened as Gerhardt related , ecstatically , how her love was unfolding like buds in May . |
| 19 | During a provincial tour of the south-west , Koirala 's motorcade was stoned by demonstrators on April 27 and some of his staff were injured . |
| 20 | The Werner plan , from which that prediction was drawn , was wrecked by events outside Europe — the Nixon shocks and partly the effects of the OPEC increase in the oil price — but no hon. Member seems able to recall that it ever existed . |
| 21 | All of this seemed to be well understood until early this century , because it was explained in terms of Newton 's theory of gravitation . |
| 22 | Andrew Risdon , 14 , was walking with friends at Whitstone Primary School , near Bude , Cornwall , when the wall suddenly toppled . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , intense lobbying was reported of deputies from Estonia , Georgia and other strongly nationalist-minded republics who were threatening to boycott the vote on the grounds that strengthening centralized executive authority ran counter to recent official proposals for restructuring the Soviet Union into a looser confederation of sovereign republics . |
| 24 | Worthy of note too , are the cabinets made at Cheb and the fine examples of Baroque furniture , much of which was designed by architects like K. 1 . |
| 25 | The Mercury stated shortly afterwards that ‘ Three persons were took up on suspicion ’ and later that ‘ Ambrose Strange , who killed him , was hanged in chains on Tyler 's Heath for it . ’ |
| 26 | He was educated at schools in Rochester and privately at home , and then at the age of sixteen became apprenticed to his uncle , a chemist and druggist in Bristol . |
| 27 | He was educated at schools in Kent and London , and at Sidney Sussex and Emmanuel Colleges , Cambridge . |
| 28 | He was educated at schools in Kidderminster , Bedford , and East Dereham . |
| 29 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 30 | Moreover , Venetian sculpture at this period was dominated by craftsmen from Lombardy , and a number of Lombard painters are known to have produced works for Venetian clients , among them Andrea Solario , Marco d'Oggiono , Francesco Napoletano and Giovanni Agostino da Lodi , whose panel of ‘ Christ washing the Apostles ’ feet ’ from the Accademia , painted in 1500 , has just been restored . |