Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The climax of the ceremony came when the ring of St Valerie was slipped on to Richard 's finger . |
| 2 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 3 | The three alien forms were originally to be realized by Roger Dicken ; but he completed the small forms only , and Rambaldi was called in at short notice to do the Alien head . |
| 4 | Nellie was holding on to his arm as they walked out into the corridor and he felt her tense . |
| 5 | Little Kylie was whisked out of oblivion and into the far-flung , glittering realm of fame and fortune . |
| 6 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 7 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 8 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 9 | Soon after , Averroes Bucaram was voted out of his parliamentary post , but refused to leave quietly . |
| 10 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 11 | Marie Marie was going down to her mother 's she was running as usual , she dashed up to our back door and said , is Doug around ? |
| 12 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 13 | CLIVE ALLEN scored twice , but Trevor Morley was sent off as European football last night returned to Upton Park for the first time in 11 years . |
| 14 | Now fur is about to fly after Micky Adams was sent off on Wednesday night against QPR and yesterday Southampton discovered Francis Benali was banned one match for a similar offence on the pre-season tour of Sweden . |
| 15 | Dr Adams was made out to be an evil scientist who uses young innocent children for his own benefit . |
| 16 | Becky was put out in any case because her mother had not appeared . |
| 17 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 18 | On July 1 Gopal Singh was sworn in as Governor of Nagaland after the transfer of Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao to Jammu and Kashmir [ see above ] . |
| 19 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as BJP Chief Minister on June 24 . |
| 20 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 21 | Beatrix died in 1275 and Jean was brought up in England , apparently in Edward 's household . |
| 22 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 23 | While Eloise was sailed round to Holyhead with a prize crew from the cutters on board , more arrests were being made around the country and suspects were picked up in Sussex , Dorset , London , South Wales and County Durham . |
| 24 | Henry Cotton was walking in with us and he says , ‘ That 's the bravest golf shot I 've ever seen in my life . ’ |
| 25 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 26 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 27 | Baptista Bassano lived near the Charterhouse , but Emilia was brought up by Susan ( later Wingfield ) , dowager Countess of Kent , whom she addresses as the ‘ noble guide of my ungoverned dayes ’ . |
| 28 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 29 | Richard was parcelled out to his mother , just as their other sons , Henry , Geoffrey and John , were kept by their father . |
| 30 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |