Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tentara Keamann Raykat ( TKR ) was formed out of the BKR . |
| 2 | The customer was delighted and telephoned Ralph Edwards to say how pleased his client was with the service and that the cloth was flown out to The Yemen within a few hours . |
| 3 | As for Mary Alice , she was flown back to the USA in June 1945 , some 11 months after her original crew . |
| 4 | And if you recall when my Colonel read John plaque it attributes to him er the aid in assisting us at in the establishment of that memorial museum , John gave us a er and sort of took that apart and hauled it over to and it was flown back to the States and that 's going to be a briefing operations room for the museum itself . |
| 5 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |
| 6 | Once , on a day of snow and melting slush , he was walking back to the Marylebone Road when the Asshe carriage passed by , with Johnny at the reins . |
| 7 | The Youth League — banned for 30 years since 1960 — was legalised along with the ANC , PAC and SACP in February , 1990 . |
| 8 | In his final statements in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , his last stop , Bush repeated the central message of the tour , that a " new age " was opening up for the Americas . |
| 9 | Darren Anderton slipped past Tom Cowan 's lethargic tackle and his low cross from the right was slotted in by the England player . |
| 10 | The Bank was tipped off by the West Germans shortly before the decision was announced , and evidently decided it would have to follow suit or risk a damaging run on the pound . |
| 11 | However , if he is a currency speculator he may be found to be trading in currencies and as he resides in the United Kingdom it would be very difficult to show that the trade was carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | In later years , a good deal of business was carried out with the Severn and Wye Railway Company , Hewlett supplying this trade for at least several decades . |
| 13 | Survival analysis was carried out with the Kaplan-Meier product limit method , and the log rank test was used to test the significance of differences between the treatment groups . |
| 14 | Servicing of steam locomotive No. 90 was carried out at the Severn Valley Railway Works at Bridgenorth where a complete new firebox and boiler was made and then shipped to Galway for installation . |
| 15 | This may be guided by the subsequent text pages which describe the intervention that was carried out by the Smiths . |
| 16 | Before rebuilding , an archaeological excavation was carried out by the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust which established by radio-carbon dating that the site had been used as a burial ground for about one thousand years before Melangell 's time . |
| 17 | He took a taxi the twelve miles into Brighton , and was dropped off at the Willett Collection , housed in the town 's museum . |
| 18 | I got out of Bullwood Hall on a Tuesday and I was picked up on the Thursday , two days later , for robbery . |
| 19 | They discarded the broken spar over the side where it was picked up by the Nippon tender . |
| 20 | A report on these ideas appeared in the medical school newsletter and was picked up by the Boston Globe and the New York Times . |
| 21 | When the Titanic struck its iceberg , Beesley escaped in the underpopulated Lifeboat 13 , and was picked up by the Carpathia . |
| 22 | While it lasted , the Auxiliary did good work , but after the President 's death it declined and eventually was wound up during the Glasgow Congress in 1920 . |
| 23 | The idea was that when that was done , on a signal I was to open up with the Breda and shoot up the café . |
| 24 | Flowers was injured out of the England Game which will be a help too . |
| 25 | An initial scheme not to include the College of Art in the Polytechnic was turned down by the DES . |
| 26 | An Iranian airliner was shot down over the Gulf by a missile from a US cruiser in 1988 , killing 290 people . |
| 27 | In May 1960 more talks began at leaders ' levels in Paris , with Eisenhower anxious to play the role of peacemaker in his last year in office , but the conference collapsed when a US spy aircraft was shot down over the USSR . |
| 28 | Payton , failed to return and was shot down by the A.A. defences at Hassani . |
| 29 | The result : Des was airlifted out of the Gulf in mid-May and , on May 29 , at Arden Grange International Quarantine Kennels in Albourne , Sussex , Dave saw Des for the first time since March 23 . |
| 30 | The rational company would cash in its profits on the speculation — and still cut production and investment as it was priced out of the US market . |