Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Particular consideration was given to developments in Cambodia . |
| 5 | Similar work was undertaken by women in shoe-making . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The car was traced to dealers in Nottingham where he 'd worked for nine years . |
| 8 | Elisabeth stretched out full length on the couch and listened as Gerhardt related , ecstatically , how her love was unfolding like buds in May . |
| 9 | Forty-eight hours earlier , the Cabinet had agreed in principle to the Big Five's recommended savings of 70 million , of which nearly 50 million was to come from cuts in unemployment benefits . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was educated at schools in Kent and London , and at Sidney Sussex and Emmanuel Colleges , Cambridge . |
| 12 | He was educated at schools in Kidderminster , Bedford , and East Dereham . |
| 13 | In Nicaragua , the US embassy in Managua was surrounded by troops in retaliation for American troops ringing the Nicaraguan embassy in Panama City . |
| 14 | It was n't just us ; we were both concerned about what was happening to girls in YTP because this conference today is talking about training and employment and so many of the young girls in West Belfast , the girls who are not going on to third level education , go into YTP . |
| 15 | Of course , I 'd heard of AIDS and the destruction of that immunity , but somehow that was happening to homosexuals in LA or Brighton and not here with me , deep in the pastoral Hampshire countryside . |
| 16 | The service was organised by clergy in response to calls from local people who wanted help to cope with their grief . |
| 17 | A street kid who was attacked by police in Guatemala City , who later died from the injuries he received |
| 18 | The longstanding dispute was resolved following talks in Rome between Albanian and UK officials . |
| 19 | The Jakarta meeting was preceded by talks in Bangkok ( Thailand ) on Feb. 21 between Hun Sen and Prince Sihanouk [ for their meeting at Paris conference on Cambodia in August 1989 see p. 36848 ] . |
| 20 | The rigidity of what was expected from children in terms of compliance to religious and moral ideologies could have no more perfect expression than in the two small late 18th century carved wooden figures of the Blue Coat Schoolboy and Schoolgirl which until recently were to be found in All Saints Church , Maidstone . |
| 21 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 22 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 23 | There had already been examples in the fifties , notably Delmer Daves 's Broken Arrow , Robert Aldrich 's Apache and Sam Fuller 's Run of the Arrow , but it began a new trend in which the Western was appropriated by directors in order to express their liberal views . |
| 24 | When the Consultative Report was issued in November , ( reproduced in ACCOUNTANCY , December 1992 , p 147 ) a tight deadline of 31 January 1993 was imposed on members in order that the Institute would be able to respond promptly to members ' current needs . |
| 25 | But on March 3 he was seen by police in Scarborough shouting and swearing , drinking from a bottle and offering to give passers-by a drink , Melvyn Kelly prosecuting , told the court . |
| 26 | From there he was said by officials in Mogadishu on Nov. 8 to have sent letters to a number of countries and relief organizations explaining Somalia 's needs for emergency aid and calling upon " the international community and the Moslem world to extend humanitarian aid " . |
| 27 | The announcement of the commuting of death sentences was made after talks in London between Shaikh Saad and the United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major . |
| 28 | THE standard of the Queen 's Birthday Parade as a spectacle fit for a monarch was threatened by cuts in troops available for ceremonial duties , a Tory warned in the Commons yesterday . |
| 29 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 30 | In part this was attributed to inequalities in access and utilisation . |