Example sentences of "was bear [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was born Rose Mary Brooks at Belton on the 16th November 1876 ; and after I married George Edward Pettingill we lived away from the Island . |
| 2 | , ( Dominic ) Bevan ( Wyndham ) ( 1891–1969 ) , writer , was born Llewelyn Bevan Wyndham Lewis 9 March 1891 at 63 Seaforth Road , Seaforth , Litherland , the eldest son of David John Lewis , pharmaceutical chemist of Seaforth , and his wife , Cecelia Agnes Mayer . |
| 3 | In the 1839 race , Captain Becher riding Conrad had rushed into the lead but was unseated into the first brook — and so was born Becher 's Brook , still one of the most spectacular and feared jumps in the world . |
| 4 | , Dennis ( 1915–1973 ) , actor , was born Dennistoun John Franklin Rose Price 23 June 1915 in Ruscombe , Berkshire , the younger son and second of the three children of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price , an army officer descended from a Cornish baronet 's family , the Prices of Trengwainton , and his wife Dorothy Patience , daughter of Sir Henry Verey , official referee of the Supreme Court of Judicature . |
| 5 | , Stan ( 1890–1965 ) , comic , was born Arthur Stanley Jefferson at his grandfather 's house in Ulverston , Lancashire , 16 June 1890 , the second son in the family of four sons and one daughter of Arthur Jefferson , known as ‘ A.J. ’ , of Bishop Auckland , theatre manager , and his wife Margaret ( ‘ Madge ’ ) Metcalfe , actress , of Ulverston . |
| 6 | Robert Forbes was born Terence Lewthwaite in Salford , part of the industrial heartland of England , a sprawl of sour streets of back-to-back houses , cross-hatched with scummy canals and punctuated by decaying factories which fouled the atmosphere with their effluents . |
| 7 | , ( Paul ) Julius de , Baron ( 1816–1899 ) , news agency pioneer , was born Israel Beer in Kassel , Germany , 21 July 1816 , the third son in the family of four sons and one daughter of Samuel Levi Josaphat , provisional rabbi of Kassel , and his wife Bette Sanders of Kassel . |
| 8 | Mr Faith was born Terry Nelhams , son of an Acton coach driver . |
| 9 | I was born Julian Parry , only daughter to Rhodri Parry , a merchant of this town , dealing in wool and woollen piece goods , and married by him a year and a half ago to Master Nicholas Hussey , who held lands here north of the town . |
| 10 | , Gerard ( 1925–1959 ) , cartoonist and musical humorist , was born Gerhardt Hoffnung in Grünewald , Berlin , 22 March 1925 , the only child of German-Jewish parents , Ludwig Hoffnung , a wealthy grain merchant , and his wife Hilde , a widow , whose first husband , Schnabel , was killed in World War I. His mother was a keen amateur musician and artist who encouraged his artistic talents . |
| 11 | He was born Vernon , the illegitimate son of a fourteen year old girl . |
| 12 | , Hertha ( 1854–1923 ) , physicist , was born Phoebe Sarah Marks 28 April 1854 in Portsea near Plymouth , the third child and elder daughter in the family of six sons and two daughters of Levi Marks , clock-maker and jeweller at Petworth , the son of a Jewish Polish refugee , and his wife Alice Theresa , daughter of Joseph Moss , a glass merchant of Portsea . |
| 13 | Madonna , 34 , was born Madonna Ciccone ( pronounced Chick-oh-ny ) in Bay City , Michigan . |
| 14 | Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson and spent a deprived childhood during the Depression in a home , deserted by her father shortly before she was born . |
| 15 | Twitty , who was born Harold Lloyd Jenkins , has had more than 40 Country and Western hits , including the No.1 success , It 's Only Make Believe and Mona Lisa . |
| 16 | Ursula Oxley read from the memoirs of Henry Hunt who was born Wiltshire , was elected to parliament , and worked for the repeal of the corn laws . |
| 17 | , Fred ( 1866–1941 ) , comedian , was born Frederick John Westcott 26 March 1866 in Exeter , the eldest of the six sons and the seven children of John Westcott , cabinet-maker and french polisher of Exeter , and his wife Emily Bowden , also of Exeter . |
| 18 | Mrs Markus was born Erika Scharfstein on June 27 , 1910 , in what is now Romania , and spent most of her early life in Vienna . |
| 19 | She was born Erika Scharfstein on June 27 1910 , into a prosperous Jewish family in Gura Humora , a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is now Romania . |
| 20 | A and that and that he he was born God and that died on the cross as God . |
| 21 | , Charles ( 1800–1853 ) , Asian traveller , archaeologist , and numismatist , was born James Lewis in Aldermanbury , Middlesex , 16 February 1800 , the eldest child of George Lewis , oil dealer , of 58 Aldermanbury , and his wife Mary , daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Hopcraft of Croughton , Northamptonshire . |
| 22 | , Sir Mansfield George Smith ( 1859–1923 ) , the first chief of the modern secret service ( CSS or C ) , was born Mansfield George Smith 1 April 1859 in India , the youngest in the family of five sons and eight daughters of Colonel John Thomas Smith [ q.v. ] , of the Royal Engineers , of Föellalt House , Kent , and his wife Maria Sarah Tyser . |
| 23 | , Ernest ( 1868–1942 ) , writer , was born Ernest Brammah Smith 20 March 1868 at 1 Rushton Street , Hulme , Manchester , the son of Charles Clement Smith , a Manchester warehouseman , and his wife Susannah Brammah . |
| 24 | Lynn Bari , who was born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher on December 18th 1913 in Roanoke , Virginia , concocted her screen name from that of the actress Lynn Fontane and author James Barrie . |
| 25 | FOLKNICK , bluesman , balladeer , gospel entertainer , country-and-western star : Bob Dylan , all these and more , was born Robert Allen Zimmerman 50 years ago in the small town of Hibbing , Minnesota . |
| 26 | , Charles Lewis ( 1761–1833 ) , mineralogist , was born Johann Georg Metzler 6 April 1761 in Augsburg , Bavaria , the eldest surviving son of the six children of George Melchior Metzler , a Protestant tailor , and his wife Sibylla Magdalena Götz . |
| 27 | She was born Katharine Appleton in Gravesend in 1948 into a diplomatic family , and remembers herself as ‘ the girl on the reception line ’ at dull diplomatic occasions in various European embassies while her father carried out his duties as an air attache . |
| 28 | In fact she was born Gunilla Horrigan , the illegitimate daughter of a waitress in Cottonwood , Minnesota , and raised on her grandparents ' farm , speaking Swedish at home until the day she ran away . |
| 29 | A Yorkshireman , he was born Brian Earnshaw on June 28 , 1928 , and was taught by Mary Shaw and Ruth French before joining the Sadlers Wells ( later Royal ) Ballet School . |
| 30 | She was born Freda Donaldson on April 16 , 1905 , and won a free scholarship to the town 's Kirby College in 1918 . |