Example sentences of "was [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the express wish of Queen Mary herself , Florence , like thousands of women throughout the Empire , was knitting socks for soldiers at the front . |
| 2 | He came into the hangar where Preston was gluing bits of plane together and told him he was taking one of the new chaps up for a spin . |
| 3 | The APF held only 30 of the 350 seats in the Supreme Soviet but was demanding transfer of power from the Supreme Soviet to the National Council , which comprised 50 Supreme Soviet deputies , half from the APF . |
| 4 | The town subscribed towards a new steamer engine which was christened Constance by Mrs Norman McCorquodale in 1913 . |
| 5 | Like the style of coverage or not , we undoubtedly saw far more cricket than we ever would have done had BBC had the contract , and for that I for one am profoundly grateful and not ashamed to admit that I purchased my Sky system purely because it was producing coverage of cricket that otherwise would not be available on TV . |
| 6 | The firm 's main work was producing components for aircraft but my job was to investigate new product areas for the company . |
| 7 | The exceptionally rich soil here was producing carrots for London by the end of the century when , perhaps , the trade was already long-established . |
| 8 | Science and technology still accounted for the largest group of students , though recruitment for technology was encountering difficulties in Britain generally . |
| 9 | I felt insulted ; Otto was confiding information about Jean-Claude to me . |
| 10 | His job was to interview pilots on return from their missions . |
| 11 | January 1936 : In South Wales , particularly in the Rhonda Valley the tramp of thousands of feet was heard day after day . |
| 12 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 13 | Deeside Training Enterprise was given £100,000 by Grampian Enterprise in 1991 to show ex-servicemen and women how best to sell their skills to civilian employers . |
| 14 | He was given £100,000 in damages , more than a testimonial at Elland Road would ever have reaped . |
| 15 | Each vidane was given forms in triplicate on which to record information about crimes . |
| 16 | Ealdred 's kinswoman could have been Abbess Aethelburh , daughter of a local lord , Aelfred , who was given Withington in Gloucestershire in the 770s ( CS 217 : S 1255 ) . |
| 17 | Kevin Wilson was given space by Clarke 's precise header to beat Strakosha with a low cross shot . |
| 18 | Between these two journeys , in 147–6 , he was given ships by Scipio to explore the coasts of Africa ( Plin . |
| 19 | A less well-known example is of H. V. Hilprecht , an archaeologist at Pennsylvania University who in 1893 was given drawings of fragments of agate excavated from the Babylonian temple of Bal at Nippur . |
| 20 | The town of La Rochelle was granted a " commune " , in other words it was given rights of self-government and allowed to elect a mayor instead of having to put up with being ruled by an official imposed upon it from above . |
| 21 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 22 | Former King Michael , who had tried to re-enter Romania on Dec. 25 , 1990 , only to be expelled after 12 hours at the airport , was given leave on Jan. 6 to have his Romanian citizenship restored . |
| 23 | He was given instructions to taxi to the holding point for runway 26 and subsequently took off normally at 1202 hrs . |
| 24 | This was clearly demonstrated in Duncan Sandys ' second Defence White Paper , published in February 1958 , in which disarmament was given pride of place . |
| 25 | ‘ I was given sanctuary in England in return for information about the Luciferi . ’ |
| 26 | The all clear was given building by building . |
| 27 | He was given benzylpenicillin with cefotaxime and transferred to the intensive care unit , where he subsequently made an uncomplicated recovery . |
| 28 | Mr O'Shaughnessy , who was given custody of Ryan when his marriage ended 10 years ago , said : ‘ My sister and grand-daughter are buried there . |
| 29 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 30 | Robert Ratcliffe , who was given office in Sheen ( Surrey ) by the queen , can be identified with the Woodville interest . |