Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night the hospitals said Jason was poorly and Neil was in a stable condition . |
| 2 | Mo was on the defensive here . |
| 3 | My first sight of Stonehenge was on a still January morning soon after the war . |
| 4 | She was stood in the wings refilling the whisky decanter , picturing herself seated at a concert grand on the platform of the Philharmonic Hall — Meredith was in the front row gazing up at her with adoration — when three men walking one behind the other filed through the pass-door into the auditorium . |
| 5 | Among the Best Actor losers , Dustin was in the prestigious company of Paul Newman ( Cool Hand Luke ) , Warren Beatty ( Bonnie and Clyde ) . |
| 6 | Keen Dee McKeen was at a complete loss . |
| 7 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 8 | One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks . |
| 9 | The changes , thought to have taken place in July when ANC president Nelson Mandela was on an overseas tour , apparently excluded him and his deputy , Walter Sisulu , from official policy-making bodies . |
| 10 | Richard Barnett was at the finishing line . |
| 11 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
| 12 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 13 | Tony Wright was in the wrong and landed this into the safe hands of Barnett . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge . |
| 15 | Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order . |
| 16 | KUWAIT was in the thick of battle last night as leading oil producers tried to hammer out a deal which would prevent prices collapsing when winter demand drops . |
| 17 | Edward was in a foul mood , applying himself obsessively to his studies , encouraging no conversation . |
| 18 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 19 | Gaby was in an eight-girl crew taking part in a raft race near Southsea , Hampshire , when she lost her balance and plunged into the sea . |
| 20 | It was also natural , given that Crete was on the southern edge of that world , that most , though not all , of the ports were on the north coast . |
| 21 | Napoleon III had no desire to emulate St Louis by sitting under an oak tree in Vincennes dispensing justice to all comers , but in a more up-to-date version he went one better by donating the entire area of the park ( which belonged to the Crown ) to the City of Paris so that it might become for the poorer section of the city what the Bois de Boulogne was to the rich . |
| 22 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 23 | Someone like Kruger was in a prime position to come by such scraps of information . |
| 24 | Now Ellen was on the other line . |
| 25 | Dermot says : ‘ My brother Ken was on a round the world trip and went to Nepal after spending some time in India . |
| 26 | When Ken was in a bad mood or turned on people who regarded themselves as close friends , it was mostly a reaction to the way he saw himself — a failure to be what he wanted to be most . |
| 27 | Ken was in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a year — Maggie left slightly earlier to play in May , May . |
| 28 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 29 | By this time Travis was on the horrible scene of the accident , the bloodstained white dress revealing a gruesome sight . |
| 30 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |