Example sentences of "[coord] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fielding Goodney , with all kinds of developments : a " dream script " had come through from Doris Arthur , Caduta Mass and Butch Beausoleil had put their signatures on the line , Spunk wanted in , Lorne wanted out — Lorne Guyland was going crazy , or was staying that way . |
| 2 | No trace has yet been found of the French gallery owner Basmadjian who disappeared or was kidnapped two years ago in the former Soviet Union . |
| 3 | News leaked out locally and was confirmed last week by the Duchy , which will take on five let farms , a vacant farmhouse at the centre of the estate , and woodland with in-hand sporting rights west of the Malvern Hills . |
| 4 | The place took no bookings , and knew of no Mr Sixsmith , and was serving many midday breakfasts to swearing persons whose eyes bulged over mugs of flesh-coloured tea . |
| 5 | In 1858 he took the London MB and became medical superintendent of the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots ; and in 1859 he took the MD and the MRCP and was appointed assistant physician to the London Hospital . |
| 6 | Haines made his name as a surveyor in the Persian Gulf , and was appointed assistant surveyor in 1826 . |
| 7 | His career had an extraordinary culmination when he eventually turned up in Scotland and was appointed Royal Printer to James VI , afterwards James I of England . |
| 8 | In October 1933 , Mr. Spencer resigned and was appointed Resident Director to the North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co . |
| 9 | In later years Miss Riley had several senior positions in the library , and was appointed head librarian at the Army & Navy Stores when I opened a library there shortly after the way . |
| 10 | He recalled , ‘ I was under the pressure of being a family man with a daughter , and one day I accepted a job to act in a movie in the day-time and was writing another movie at night . |
| 11 | The parricide committed by human beings occurred over a period of perhaps thousands of years , and was repeated innumerable times all over the globe , for it was the primal horde that marked humanity off from nature , and began the social , historical and cultural evolution of man . |
| 12 | Under this alliance the Black Prince agreed to give Pedro help against his enemies , and the enemy whom Pedro had chiefly in mind was his illegitimate half-brother Henry of Trastâmara , who was in exile at the French court and was seeking French support for his designs upon the Castilian crown . |
| 13 | He did n't want to make the same mistakes again and was taking great care over every detail , researching the best possible way to lure the creature into his grasp . |
| 14 | And , never having met such an abominable man , she actually heard herself telling him just how large the mortgage on the apartment was , and , while she was recovering from having actually told him something she regarded as no one 's business but her own , and was taking another breath to rage on , he got in first . |
| 15 | Kemp was released after treatment but Raynsford was kept in and was said last night to be ‘ comfortable ’ . |
| 16 | He visited North America in 1878 , and was elected honorary member of the American Orthopaedic Association in 1890 . |
| 17 | Lord Herbert Hervey was transferred shortly afterwards and was replaced some months later by Colonel Doughty-Wylie . |
| 18 | It was attractive with a fresh , clean image but was not sufficiently robust to withstand stacking on shelves and customer handling and was replaced three years later by the ‘ France Oeuf ’ carton . |
| 19 | She walked to the village shop to collect the bread and was waylaid four times and treated to opposing viewpoints on the two current matters of local dispute . |
| 20 | Braham flew 316 operational sorties and was hit eleven times in forty-one attacks on his aircraft . |
| 21 | Indeed , as I was making my way back to this guest house this evening , I glanced back over my shoulder on a number of occasions and was met each time by a view of the sun setting behind that great spire . |
| 22 | The sun had found a chink in the clouds , and was gilding emerald meadows and dark woodlands . |
| 23 | Opener David Smith led the run chase with 82 and was given crucial support by Martin Speight who chipped in with 38 . |
| 24 | Mr Brettell , who is married , pleaded ‘ no contest ’ to a public lewdness charge and was given one year probation , after which the misdemeanor will likely be dropped . |
| 25 | Published for consideration by the deputies and in Supreme Soviet committees on Oct. 16 , it was presented formally by Gorbachev and approved in principle without a debate on Oct. 19 , and was given final approval later the same day , with minor amendments proposed by committees , by 333 votes to 12 , with 34 abstentions . |
| 26 | As a result , he had to be taken away from school and was given private tuition in the evenings from the local school teacher . |
| 27 | She had very high blood pressure , and was given two epidurals that did n't work . |
| 28 | He opened a book the wrong way and was given two lengths . |
| 29 | All EC states would be given three years to introduce the necessary legislation except for the UK , which had strongly opposed the proposal and was given 10 years to implement it [ see also p. 38658 for UK option to withdraw from social policy aspects of European Union ] . |
| 30 | The project , now scheduled for the first two weekends of June , went into the May issue of Spokesworker and was given front page treatment in the main newsletter , which also came out in May . |