Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] in [noun] " 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 | Luhti was arrested in August and is now in investigative custody on suspicion of embezzlement through his Swiss Adiuva Finanz AG investment company , declared bankrupt a week ago . |
| 3 | Fr Cunningham was born in India and went to school in the North-East , where a priest suggested he consider going into the ministry . |
| 4 | IFN was started in February , 1993 , for chronic viral hepatitis C. ALT was 180 IU/L , CD4 cells 600/L , and serum p24 antigen was negative . |
| 5 | Within four weeks of filming her final episode and saying goodbye to her friends at Grundy , Kylie was based in London where she was now enjoying the sort of stardom attention reserved for Madonna and Michael Jackson . |
| 6 | BCCI SA was registered in Luxembourg , but ran its international operations from London , which accounted for nearly half of its assets . |
| 7 | Diana Adams was treated in hospital after being bitten on the arm . |
| 8 | The Countess Marie 's denial of the existence of love in marriage is " dated " to May 1174 — the one date in the whole book when Eleanor was held in Chinon Castle , her husband 's prisoner . |
| 9 | She was ready now to admit that her mother was right , Hari was falling in love with Craig . |
| 10 | Ceauşescu was hunting in Nigeria at the time and insisted on playing down the impact of the earthquake even before he returned . |
| 11 | Hence it is no surprise that , within two years of arriving in Belfast , Paisley was felt in politics . |
| 12 | William Hinton was born in Naples in 1817 , the son of a Wiltshire landowner . |
| 13 | Egon Zehnder was founded in Switzerland by the still-practising Dr Zehnder , who was originally with Spencer Stuart . |
| 14 | Hill was remanded in custody to appear at Crumlin Road Court on June 11 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Erm but I mean I thought Andrea was going in catering and she says well that 's what we hope . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Hardy was describing in fiction the real and very harsh position that unmarried mothers from the poorer sections of society found themselves in . |
| 19 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 20 | One day in 1964 , while Richard was playing in Hamlet on Broadway , he and I were interviewed jointly in a private corner of an Eighth Avenue bar and restaurant much frequented by theatre people . |
| 21 | The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was proclaimed in March 1956 , having been a British dominion since the partition of the Indian Empire in August 1947 . |
| 22 | The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was proclaimed in March 1956 , having been a British dominion since the partition of the Indian Empire in August 1947 . |
| 23 | According to the administration 's critics , the licences , issued during 1990 and 1991 , might have violated the terms of the Pressler Amendment , under which all military assistance to Pakistan was suspended in October 1990 on the grounds that Pakistan was engaged in a nuclear weapons programme [ see p. 37764 ] . |
| 24 | Ania Bien was born in Poland in 1946 and lives and works in Amsterdam . |
| 25 | On the morning of the day before her departure Delia Sutherland was sitting in front of the fruit and toast Luney set daily on the terrace , and which not once had she been able to eat . |
| 26 | Antonietta asked what Elisa was doing in Naples . |
| 27 | Scott was born in South Shields and went to school in Tynemouth in Stockton . |
| 28 | Scott was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt which needed washing . |
| 29 | Captured by the Japanese in 1941 , David was interned in Shanghai for nine months , and contracted the sclerosis which caused him difficult last years and finally ended his life . |
| 30 | David was born in Glasgow and worked as a motor mechanic . |