Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | She and Miranda talked ; Xanthe was at dayschool in London , but riding was her passion , she was learning dressage on a black mare with a white star and three white pasterns . |
| 2 | Mrs Young told her that the madman who had mischievously unhitched the car was hours behind us in Cartier , but Xanthe was beyond reassurance . |
| 3 | However , Wouters suggests that Elias was in fact aware that the process he had identified was not unidimensional : |
| 4 | First there were the stories that Kylie was in fact a complete fabrication . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough 's Mayor Eddie Bolland was on board the 3,200ton ship , keeping alive the links which begun in 1975 until the last possible minute . |
| 6 | Ex-international Janet Swan played an exhibition game and gave expert tips , and Mayor Eddie Bolland was on hand to present the prizes . |
| 7 | It is known that Aymer was in France in 1299 , 1301 , 1302 , 1303 , 1304 , and made at least twelve visits between 1307 and 1324 , three of them in 1313 . |
| 8 | The report noted that ISC was in dispute with the US Department of Defence over $4m of incurred costs relating to an ISC subsidiary and noted the acquisition would ‘ lessen the group 's attractiveness to a bidder ’ . |
| 9 | Manager Lennie Lawrence hinted Falconer was in need of a rest after a hectic comeback spell . |
| 10 | The Countess Alexander of Tunis was in attendance . |
| 11 | Neil was in North Tees Hospital with a serious leg injury and was described as ‘ stable ’ . |
| 12 | Mr Morley was at Cheltenham police station most of the day — he was then admitted to a local hospital . |
| 13 | SORRY folks our picture on Tuesday was of Hereford City Museum and not of Hereford Mount Hotel . |
| 14 | Fagg and Fishbane , yes , but I think Chatterton was in intelligence , code-breaking , that sort of thing . |
| 15 | Wilfrid was at Ripon with Eadwulf 's son , probably the Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , who was killed in 740 . |
| 16 | ROYAL Scottish Consultant Paul Adams was in pole position when the 12-month-long ‘ Come Together ’ competition reach the half-way mark in March . |
| 17 | Unsurprisingly Hilliard was in Birmingham when he made this impassioned outburst against machinery . |
| 18 | Apart from armoured columns the French navy had joined in as well and on at least one occasion the battleship Richelieu was in action against land targets . |
| 19 | Lawyers for the joint receivers , John Talbot and Murdoch McKillop , argued unsuccessfully in the High Court chancery division that AP was in breach of EC trading law by abusing its dominant position as a supplier and holding the company to ransom . |
| 20 | He arrived at three o'clock , and by 3.20 Dennis was in Mr Chapman 's motor car en route to the home of the League Champions . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I understood that it was forbidden unless Dennis was within earshot . ’ |
| 22 | Five minutes later they were two up when the home defence got into an awful tangle and Denver was at hand to shoot home . |
| 23 | By this stage Eleanor was in tears . |
| 24 | In the mid-1760s Eleanor was in business in the City on her own as a linen-draper . |
| 25 | Activation of c-Myc was by addition of β -oestradiol ( 2μM ) to the culture medium , and cells were observed by time-lapse cinemicroscopy . |
| 26 | Armando Durán was on April 30 appointed Foreign Minister , replacing Reinaldo Figueredo Planchart , who resigned to campaign for the leadership of the ruling Acción Democrática ( AD ) ; Durán , was replaced as Secretary-General of the Presidency by Beatrice Rangel . |
| 27 | Stonehenge was for sale : The government could have it for £125000 ; failing that , Sir Edmund was open to offers , from a showman perhaps , or an advertising contractor ( ’ The Pear 's Soap Stone ’ ? ) , or an American who would ship it away to the United States . |
| 28 | Maud Sulter was in conversation with Ardentia Verba . |
| 29 | While Tshwete was in Australia and New Zealand following the Cricket World Cup , a leading ANC sports activist , Mr Mluleki George , who also chairs the NOSC ( the National Olympic and Sports Congress , recognised by most Commonwealth governments as the voice of non-Olympic sports in South Africa ) , wrote letters to the governing bodies and the authorities in Australia , New Zealand , France and England demanding they ban or discourage the planned tours to and from the Republic , arguing that the development programme about to be launched by the SARFU was only a smokescreen designed to provide a cover for the international aspirations of the white rugby establishment . |
| 30 | Meksi was by profession a construction engineer and former restorer of medieval architecture . |