Example sentences of "[noun prp] was in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1244–5 Richard was in the marches of Wales , and received another blow when Richard de Clare , sixth Earl of Gloucester , lord of Glamorgan , had him arrested and confiscated his Glamorgan estates , on the grounds that Richard had sided with a Welsh magnate of the area against the earl . |
| 2 | Dickie was in the gardens there , Pammie drove two tractor driver , Jo , Jo was the , where 's Jo , Jo was the dairy , milk , then I used to drive the other tractor when we wanted two , and what we did we all could take over from the milker when she was off , or Pammie , we could all interchange . |
| 3 | Loch Ness was in the pages again , this time because the only known Wellington bomber to exist is on the bottom . |
| 4 | Then , as now , the NHS was in the throes of reorganisation and the cry was that extra millions were being wasted on bureaucracy . |
| 5 | His early education in Cork was in the hands of the Revd Mr Lee , a Church of Ireland clergyman of evangelical disposition . |
| 6 | By the time of the Industrial Revolution , the look of England was in the hands of the speculative builders and the architects . |
| 7 | They held a similar event back in the summer , when Blackbird Leys was in the headlines . |
| 8 | Ruth was in the servants ' hall one day when he returned from yet another picnic . |
| 9 | Yesterday Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates Mrs Wilson was in the ladies at Club Lucy 's in Darlington when a young woman asked who she was . |
| 10 | Also , Tom Robinson was in the charts with ‘ Glad To Be Gay ’ and there was a general atmosphere of tolerance towards gays . |
| 11 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | The real Peru was in the mountains and not along the coast , among the Indians and condors and the peaks of the Andes , not here in Lima , a foreign , lazy , anti-Peruvian city … |
| 13 | Then suddenly , when Manson was in the headlines , as popular shows do , they said , we 've got ta keep up with the times and Hawaii Five-O went super psychedelic . |
| 14 | By the early sixth century Italy was in the hands of the Ostrogoths ; France was divided between the Franks , the Burgundians and the Visigoths , who also controlled Spain ; what had been the Roman province of Africa had been transformed into the Vandal kingdom . |
| 15 | so I got together with a couple of blokes from school ‘ Hold Your Head Up ’ by Argent was in the charts at the time We 'd play that again and again and again It was the only bass line I could play properly — because it 's so simple , it 's exactly the same all the way through . |
| 16 | Another startling indication that Japan was in the throes of starting a war . |
| 17 | At that time almost 90% of the whole education programme of Rhodesia was in the hands of missionaries and there was a great and growing demand . |
| 18 | Belgrade was in the hands of Bekir Pasha , a man whom the Serbs trusted and who had promised to implement the sultan 's reforms . |
| 19 | Prudhoe , who was never seriously troubled in the first half the closest he came to conceding a goal was when the under pressure Kevan Smith had to touch behind a dangerous cross by Mark Stuart was in the wars shortly after half time . |
| 20 | Ajayi was in the games room still , hunkered over the small table in her furs , huge as a bear , perched on a small stool all but hidden beneath the furs and cloths which smothered her old frame . |
| 21 | When out photographer called , Sunny Jim was in the proceeds of receiving a pudding basin haircut … which was cut short by the arrival of an authentic but unwanted shower of rain . |
| 22 | But by now Winnie Ewing was in the throes of her by-election campaign to win Hamilton for the SNP , and aware of how fervently I agreed with everything she was saying ( and wished a Liberal had been saying ) I felt it would be dishonest to hold back any longer . |
| 23 | Sophie was in the branches of a tree eating an apple while she watched Lori going from window to window like someone trying to escape from a fire . |
| 24 | A week or two after the sheep-shearing , Bathsheba was in the hayfields , where her workers were cutting the hay . |
| 25 | And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all . |
| 26 | In case you 'd forgotten , Martin Shaw was in The Professionals . |
| 27 | It was very cold and the grey gloom of Paddington and Euston was in the faces of the people who stood near us and of the soldiers who dragged their rifles and kit-bags from one platform to another . |