Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to store the increased amount of scenery and wardrobe , he bought new premises at Heald Grove , Rusholme , and his daughter Nellie was put in charge . |
| 2 | Suddenly Shiona was trembling with outrage , but her tone was as cool as tempered steel as she told him , ‘ The only ambition I have regarding Kirsty is to be appointed as her legal guardian ! ’ |
| 3 | Suddenly Shiona was trembling with anger . |
| 4 | In 1957 Lawrie was promoted to District Geologist of the Highlands and Islands district . |
| 5 | ‘ Now , I believe Falconer was murdered on Easter Monday ? ’ |
| 6 | In the days before glasnost — which his fictions may be thought to have rehearsed and predicted , but which could well mean that his fictions will no longer be for the West what they have been so far , when the thing that they deplore was still there in its entirety to be deplored — Kundera was forced into exile in the ‘ free world ’ of the time . |
| 7 | BELOW : Millend was gutted by fire when it was a maltings . |
| 8 | Between then and 1872 Millend was advertised for sale by auction on several occasions . |
| 9 | Eva Braun was dressed for action : zipped PVC jackboots and Chanel no. 5 . |
| 10 | No shots were fired but Mrs Walker was treated for shock . |
| 11 | Lucille Walker was beginning to interest me . |
| 12 | When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881 , he persuaded Gladstone 's Liberal government to take up the cause . |
| 13 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 14 | Moreover , in October 1990 a Mr. Randhir Singh was arrested on fraud charges arising out of his employment by Abbey Life , and S.I.B . |
| 15 | With a long history of severe depression and alcoholism , Jean was arrested for arson and spent seven months on remand on C1 , the psychiatric unit of Holloway prison . |
| 16 | Some writers have said that Eleanor was driven to violence by Henry 's adulteries , culminating in his open attachment to Rosamund Clifford . |
| 17 | Although Gregory states in his Histories that Quintianus of Rodez was suspected of treason by the Visigoths , in his Life of the bishop he reveals that the local catholics were opposed to him , because he had moved the bones of a favourite saint . |
| 18 | Picasso was working at night and sleeping during the day , whilst Max earned the rent by taking a job in a department store . |
| 19 | HEAVYWEIGHT comic Roseanne Barr was seething with rage yesterday after being snubbed by judges at a top TV ceremony . |
| 20 | She was ready now to admit that her mother was right , Hari was falling in love with Craig . |
| 21 | Hence it is no surprise that , within two years of arriving in Belfast , Paisley was felt in politics . |
| 22 | Hill was remanded in custody to appear at Crumlin Road Court on June 11 . |
| 23 | Both generals had commanded units in Kurdish areas in south-east Turkey , and there was speculation that Dev Sol was working in co-operation with the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) . |
| 24 | Erm but I mean I thought Andrea was going in catering and she says well that 's what we hope . |
| 25 | As soon as Gorbachev was reinstated as President on Aug. 21 , he was compelled by the increase in Yeltsin 's political standing and the fact that most state bodies were at least partially compromised in the coup attempt to acknowledge the need for a new state structure ; the majority of the republics proclaimed independence from the Soviet Union , and fundamental reforms began of the government and the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 26 | Mr Lozano was charged with manslaughter when he shot and killed a black motorcyclist in the rundown neighbourhood of Overtown . |
| 27 | Sarah-Jane was rushed to Alder Hey Hospital for emergency treatment but was back at home today . |
| 28 | But whereas Hitchcock was to thrive in business selling a vast number of spinets , of which a great many survive , William Smith would be quite forgotten but for the chance survival of this one harpsichord . |
| 29 | There was no way Dustin was going to hospital . |
| 30 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |