Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mo was on the defensive here . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Among the Best Actor losers , Dustin was in the prestigious company of Paul Newman ( Cool Hand Luke ) , Warren Beatty ( Bonnie and Clyde ) . |
| 4 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Richard Barnett was at the finishing line . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | Tony Wright was in the wrong and landed this into the safe hands of Barnett . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge . |
| 11 | Varnhem Abbey Church in Västergötland was of the Cistercian Order . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 17 | Now Ellen was on the other line . |
| 18 | Ken was in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a year — Maggie left slightly earlier to play in May , May . |
| 19 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 20 | By this time Travis was on the horrible scene of the accident , the bloodstained white dress revealing a gruesome sight . |
| 21 | Normalair-Garrett ( NGL ) at Crewkerne was among the first companies to introduce flexible manufacturing in the UK . |
| 22 | Apart from the deliberate references to Theodoric and Charlemagne , which are intended to show that Frederick Barbarossa was of the same mould as these great heroes , the description of the Kaiserslauten palace is especially interesting . |
| 23 | EL AL was among the few international airlines that managed to show a net profit last year : a respectable $11.5m on sales of $138m . |
| 24 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 25 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 26 | As his father was a teacher and priyayi , Sukarno was among the favoured few . |
| 27 | The ideological muddle forged with passionate lyricism by Michel A'flaq was in the final analysis , inspired by the romanticism of Herder and other German thinkers . |
| 28 | Gould was with the one man who could introduce him most convincingly to the alliances between geography and the native flora and fauna of the continent . |
| 29 | Jane was in the tiny kitchen talking quietly to Mrs Rooney , a tiny white-haired woman , who spoke with a broad Scottish accent . |
| 30 | Wrexham Hospital had only that month installed one , after years of jumble sales and coffee mornings on its behalf , and Nigel was among the first patients to ( I nearly wrote ‘ benefit ’ ) be diagnosed by it . |