Example sentences of "was [verb] in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This resulted in a protest on the inspection day , when the official car was stopped in Church Street by two cycles stuck in the offending rails . |
| 2 | Two days later the car was stopped in North Yorkshire and youths from Darlington and Richmond were arrested . |
| 3 | Two days later the car was stopped in North Yorkshire and youths from Darlington and Richmond were arrested . |
| 4 | In July 1674 , Richard Baxter was preaching in St. James 's Market House when the main beam , supporting the floor , creaked several times with the weight of the people who had crowded in to hear him . |
| 5 | Joseph Slatter was remanded in police custody . |
| 6 | The Duke 's gardener , Joseph Paxton designed the Crystal Palace which was erected in Hyde Park for Prince Albert 's 1851 Great Exhibition , and later transferred to Sydenham in southeast London . |
| 7 | A monument to him was erected in St Paul 's Cathedral . |
| 8 | Just two weeks before his sixty-seventh birthday , Hogarth died at Leicester Fields , but his conspicuous monument — by David Garrick — was erected in Chiswick churchyard . |
| 9 | A plaque to the memory of another William Paul ( 1844–1912 ) praising the Christian virtues of one who was ‘ beloved and trusted by all who knew him and who went about doing good ’ was erected in Edenderry Memorial Church ( now the Memorial Hall ) in 1913 , the Reverend George R Wedgewood , Superintendent of the Circuit and Vice-President of the Conference , presiding . |
| 10 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 11 | I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb . |
| 12 | Unlike Diana who was christened in Sandringham church and had well-to-do commoners for godparents , baby brother Charles was christened in style at Westminster Abbey with the Queen as principal godparent . |
| 13 | , Emilia ( 1569–1645 ) , poet , was christened in St Botolph without Bishopsgate , London , 27 January 1569 , daughter of Giovanni Baptista Bassano , court musician , and his ‘ reputed wife ’ Margaret Johnson . |
| 14 | In Stoke Poges churchyard , whose large yew tree was immortalised in Thomas Gray 's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , the ‘ yew tree 's shade ’ was poorer than the poet had found it , as its needles were yellowing , branches drooping and canopy transparent . |
| 15 | Ten years ago a group was formed in South Devon called The South Hams Smallholders Group . |
| 16 | When the Special Air Service ( SAS ) was formed in North Africa in 1941 by Captain ( later Colonel Sir ) David Stirling , Mayne volunteered to join it . |
| 17 | Trotsky subsequently became identified with the ‘ Interdistrict ’ Committee which was formed in St Petersburg the following year in an attempt to create a bridge between rival party groups . |
| 18 | Tweed was clad in shirt sleeves and a pair of lightweight slacks as he stared out of his office window . |
| 19 | Yoma 's brother Emir Yoma , a presidential aide , had also been dismissed in January after he was implicated in corruption charges . |
| 20 | Close investigation of the lode , where it was exposed in Thriddle Scar high above , suggested that it was hading , 18 inches for every fathom in depth , away from the advancing heading ! |
| 21 | A case was heard in Croydon Magistrates ' Court on 6 December 1917 , described in the press as ‘ Boy 's dangerous prank ’ . |
| 22 | It was so totally new , so inconceivable , the extreme opposite of ‘ Hey , Kaffir , get out of the way ’ , the sort of greeting one usually was given in South Africa . |
| 23 | He noted gloomily that when he dined with the King in May the Simpsons were both present , and that when another semi-political dinner party was given in July Mrs Simpson was announced in the Court Circular as being present alone without her husband . |
| 24 | Suite was given in Cape Town by the Ballet Club at City Hall for the week of 3 December 1945 , with Joan Grantham in the ballerina part . |
| 25 | Nearly 800 schoolchildren from all over Fife and Tayside attended the 1991 schools ' Christmas lecture organised by the Tayside Section , which was given in St Andrews University chemistry department on 16 December and Dundee Institute of Technology on 17 December 1991 . |
| 26 | A favourite comparison among the book 's enthusiasts was to see in Uncle Tom a ‘ Christ figure ’ . |
| 27 | It was situated in Athena Gardens , an area near both Sector 2p and Acropolis Park . |
| 28 | It was called the hamilton Galleries and it was situated in Georges St ( its now Sothebys ) opposite to Erica Brausen of Hanover Gallery ( who died just recently ) . |
| 29 | About 24 hours before assay the sample was placed in 80% ethanol to extract platelet activating factor from the tissue . |
| 30 | The monument is fortuitously under the windows of the Ministry of Defence and under the gaze of Lord Trenchard whose statue was placed in Whitehall Gardens in 1956 . |