Example sentences of "was [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corporate liberty , even of the most exalted kind , could never be for Anselm , as it was for Hugh of Lyons , the mainspring of his whole life . |
| 2 | A 2,000 lb van bomb , left outside the Forensic Science Laboratories , wrecked 750 homes in the Belvoir estate — although the biggest repair bill was for Coleraine at £14m . |
| 3 | Scotland 's first game was against Chile in Santiago . |
| 4 | ‘ It was against Preston at Burden Park , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I was with Lucian of Samosata , adventuring on the Moon ! ’ |
| 6 | Whether this Luke is the same as ‘ Luke the Doctor ’ , who was with Paul in Rome while Paul was in prison ( Colossians 4:14 ) , is less certain , but most commentators are prepared to accept that he is . |
| 7 | So it was with Noah in God 's second beginning , and so it is now with Abraham in his third . |
| 8 | It may even be that the Eadwulf who challenged the accession of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in 704 , and whose son was with Wilfrid at Ripon at the time ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 59 ) ( see below , p. 146 ) , was of royal Deiran extraction . |
| 9 | He was with Charles at Bourges in July ( and had perhaps brought Charles the news of his father 's death ) . |
| 10 | In 1581 he travelled to France with Richard and Francis Edwardes of Chirkland , and he was with Richard in Rome on 6 November 1582 . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it was with Andy on Sunday morning so it was n't actually here with the noises . |
| 12 | The last decent performance I remember was vs Stuttgart at Leeds . |
| 13 | Regular training days and rallies are held with colleagues from Weston-Super-Mare and Bristol , the last of which was in April at Saltford Hall , Bristol , when Moyra Hopley and Rosemary Gould put everyone through their paces . |
| 14 | After returning briefly to London , Sir Alastair was in Cardiff on Friday evening , 19 February , for the Annual Dinner of the Welsh Section , for which there was a capacity turn-out in excess of 200 members and guests . |
| 15 | This was in December at Kidbrooke School . |
| 16 | An investigation by the Financial Times and ABC News discovered that William Casey , then Reagan 's campaign director — who , it was claimed , was also at the Madrid meeting — was in London on July 27-29 . |
| 17 | At the request of the army the Collective State Presidency again held an extraordinary session on May 7 which was attended by Marcovic and the Kadijevic but not by Tudjman , who was in London for talks with United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 18 | The agent was in London by noon . |
| 19 | From Evay , I think his brother was in Walkerhouse in Evay . |
| 20 | FA chief Graham Kelly , who was in Spain for England 's friendly , will fly home today to deal with the crisis . |
| 21 | The party 's secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , was in Moscow on March 25th to make the final preparations for Mikhail Gorbachev 's visit to Japan starting on April 16th . |
| 22 | Roy McDonald , deputising for manager Roy Walker who was in Scotland on business , admitted : ‘ It was a confident performance . |
| 23 | In January 1599 he raised levies in Suffolk for Ireland , and was in Connaught by April ; in January 1600 he accompanied Essex to Dublin , although the queen had previously ordered him to stay in England . |
| 24 | He murmured that he was desperate for an orange to suck , as rare a commodity in 1916 France as it was in Britain during World War II . |
| 25 | The man was a visiting Texan who was in Britain as manager of a fellow countryman , a concert pianist . |
| 26 | May : May 8-11 ; in a tour in support of Middle East peace talks , Bessmertnykh visited Damascus , Tel Aviv ( the first trip to Israel by a Soviet Foreign Minister since the state was founded in 1948 ) , Amman and Cairo ; May 15-19 : the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , visited Moscow for talks on Sino-Soviet relations ; May 15 : Lev Voronin , a former deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers , was appointed ambassador to the EC ; May 27 : the last Soviet troops on active duty in Czechoslovakia were withdrawn ; May 28-31 : Primakov was in Washington for talks with US leaders and World Bank and IMF officials to discuss Western aid . |
| 27 | Khan was in Washington for talks with United States officials during which he repeated undertakings not to explode a nuclear weapon or transfer nuclear technology to other countries . |
| 28 | Mm my John was in Sale on Saturday when he ran into John he was telling him about his |
| 29 | He was in Paris from June 1720 until November 1721 , but the ministry had little confidence in him and appointed first John , second Baron Carteret ( later Earl Granville , q.v. ) , as ambassador extraordinary in January 1721 , a post he did not take up , and secondly Sir Luke Schaub [ q.v. ] as ambassador the following month . |
| 30 | He was in Tobago in May this year with us for my daughter 's wedding and is planning a month or two in Canada later in the year . |