Example sentences of "was [verb] in [noun] york " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 2 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 3 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 4 | A Caribbean branch was opened in New York in 1928 . |
| 5 | He was born in New York to an advertising executive and his journalist wife . |
| 6 | , Jeanette ( ‘ Jennie ’ ) , Lady Randolph Churchill ( 1854–1921 ) , society hostess and writer , was born in New York 9 January 1854 , the second of four daughters ( there were no sons ) of Leonard Jerome , American sportsman and speculator , of New York , and his wife Clarissa , daughter of Ambrose Hall , landowner and sometime assemblyman of the New York legislature . |
| 7 | But I was born in New York . ’ |
| 8 | Doherty was arrested in New York in June , 1983 , and spent the next nine years fighting extradition . |
| 9 | John Gotti , 50 , reputedly head of the Gambino " family " of the Mafia , was arrested in New York City on Dec. 11 . |
| 10 | Almost all jurisdictions now have schemes which provide state funded compensation schemes for victims of crime , although when the ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation was enacted in New York , victim compensation schemes in many jurisdictions in the United States of America were non-existent or rudimentary . |
| 11 | We went to the concert by bus , and Bob was left in New York ( he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park ) and came along later in the day . |
| 12 | She put on a brave show when she was tried in New York last year in connection with some property deals . |
| 13 | The suit was filed in New York by human rights groups on the women 's behalf . |
| 14 | The final agreement between Spain 's Basque government and the Solomon Guggenheim Foundation on the construction of a new Guggenheim museum in Bilbao was signed in New York on 27 February by Peter Lawson , President of the American foundation , Thomas Krens , its director and José Antonio Ardanza , President of Spain 's Basque regional government ( see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 15 | An agreement to reduce and restructure debts of US$20,500 million was signed in New York on March 20 by Planning Minister Miguel Rodriguez and Venezuela 's 400 commercial creditor banks . |
| 16 | A preliminary agreement on interest arrears was signed in New York on April 8 by the Brazilian government and the advisory committee of creditor banks , to which Brazil owed some US$8,000 million in interest due by end-1990 on some US$60,000 million of medium and long-term debt . |
| 17 | Sanborn was her idol and she tried to get to as many of his live gigs as possible when he was playing in New York . |
| 18 | Doctor jailed : A doctor blamed for a botched abortion that resulted in a baby being born with a severed arm was jailed in New York . |
| 19 | Brian Rust 's book The Complete Entertainment Discography states that it was recorded in New York on 25 February 1925 , so this American Columbia electrical recording seems to be earlier , by one day . |
| 20 | The LP , titled ‘ Organ Fan ’ was recorded in New York with producer Jim Thirtwell , of Foetus fame , and will be released on June 15 . |
| 21 | David Dorn , a nuclear physicist working for the Commission , was quoted in New York on Jan. 15 as saying that it was possible that Iraq possessed enough components for up to 10,000 gas centrifuges . |
| 22 | This was the Fifth ( or Sixth , according to one 's definition ) such Congress : most had taken place in Europe , but that preceding the Manchester meeting was held in New York in 1927 . |
| 23 | Much detailed work was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April 1992 [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 24 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 25 | Head Office rent was nearly three months overdue , the rates were in arrears , the staff had not been paid and the general president was stranded in New York for lack of funds . |