Example sentences of "was [adv] [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was mostly East Grinstead in the second half with Leman being denied by Thompson twice and new England sensation Mahmood Bhatti shooting wide twice when well placed . |
| 2 | No I was only garrison artillery on guns . |
| 3 | He was already master mason to the cathedral and about 1310 undertook the new work of the presbytery , at the joint cost of the bishop and priory . |
| 4 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 5 | . However , after about eighteen month at , as a yard foreman , as I say I was still branch secretary of Portobello branch , and carrying on as usual , er I put in for There were this yard inspectors job wanted at Street Station . |
| 6 | Last night there was still flood water in Mostyn Street , Lloyd Street , West Shore , Kings Avenue and Trinity Avenue , Llandudno . |
| 7 | There was also steadfastness funding from the Jordanian-PLO Joint Fund . |
| 8 | Wise was also centre stage in the incident which led to Chelsea 's 40th-minute winner . |
| 9 | Hayman was appointed CMG in 1963 , and the next year became Minister in Berlin , where he was also Deputy Commandant of British Military Government . |
| 10 | Handel had been dead for five years , but his music was still enormously popular ; J C Bach ( whose concert series run by himself and his compatriot Carl Friedrich Abel was one of the highlights of musical life at the time ) was also music master to the queen and a member of her private chamber band : as such he was responsible for organizing elaborate concerts at court . |
| 11 | Chief mason at Westminster Abbey from 1516 , he was also master mason of the chancel of St Margaret 's church , built for Abbot John Islip [ q.v. ] |
| 12 | ( He was also Lord Mayor of the city in 1716 . ) |
| 13 | Previously he was with the large Coloroll Group introducing the BS 5750 Quality Assurance Scheme to all factories within the group and was also Production Manager at the Crossley Plant . |
| 14 | It was also registration day at McGill University , which marked a particular and new phase in his early life — in one sense , a new independence . |
| 15 | From 1834 to 1866 he was also county surveyor for Shropshire , a post previously held by John Hiram Haycock from 1824 until his death in 1830 . |
| 16 | So when they brought the seat back it was about quarter quarter to six I think . |
| 17 | This amazing collection of Celtic metalwork was mainly war gear including enough pieces of chariot to enable the late Sir Cyril Fox to produce a convincing reconstruction . |
| 18 | Maybe the working class was loyal and could be trusted to display " goodwill " and deference to their " betters " ; and maybe there was even party advantage to be gained from seizing the initiative on reform . |
| 19 | Marlin 's record collection was chiefly seduction songs of his sixties adolescence , which suited her fine . |
| 20 | Some time after this , Mullova went to live in Vienna with Claudio Abbado , who was then music director of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 21 | The research was conducted by the authors of the article , one of whom ( TM ) was then Team Manager of the CPT and the other ( BM ) on a full-time secondment as a team member from her post as Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Huddersfield Polytechnic . |
| 22 | Mr Sellar , 26 , was previously service engineer at the company and has worked for the company since it was set up . |
| 23 | He was previously deputy manager at the Arcade Hotel , Portsmouth . |
| 24 | The 48-year-old returns to the staff of the Bolton-based North Region , where he was previously tournament controller from 1986-88 . |
| 25 | He was previously finance director of , a private group of companies involved in pharmaceutical , minerals and colour processing . |
| 26 | This was definitely headache material over breakfast the next day . |
| 27 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |