Example sentences of "was [verb] in south [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten years ago a group was formed in South Devon called The South Hams Smallholders Group . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I never bought things from South Africa for many years , because of what was happening in South Africa . |
| 4 | It was the first time professional ballet was seen in South Africa , and the performances caused much excitement . |
| 5 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 6 | He missed the South African war , as he was serving in south Asia . |
| 7 | Interestingly enough , although Johnnies was incorporated in South Africa and its interests located predominantly in South Africa , it was only in 1962 that the Board of Johnnies , decided to transfer the registration of the company from the UK to South Africa . |
| 8 | Though the old car was used in South Africa , Jackie promptly started the new season with a convincing win , repeating the feat in Spain , at Montjuich in Barcelona . |
| 9 | Mr Morton was born in South Africa , the son of a Scottish oil executive who had married into a local Afrikaner family . |
| 10 | David Wright was born in South Africa in 1920 and came to England as a teenager . |
| 11 | Silva , who was born in South Africa of Portuguese parents and who won the European Tour 's Qualifying School in 1990 , hopes that his victory will do something to lift the game in Portugal ‘ where so many talented players are struggling to break through ’ . |
| 12 | Miss Hobson , who was born in South Africa , had been trained to use guns in her home town of Johannesburg . |
| 13 | J. R. R. Tolkien was born in South Africa , to be sure , Iris Murdoch in Dublin and Tom Stoppard in Czechoslovakia , but they settled into their lifelong home in childhood , and no one doubts they are British authors . |
| 14 | I was born in South Africa . |
| 15 | He was born in South Africa and he studied at the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge , and has taught in universities in Britain , in America , in West Africa and France and Germany . |
| 16 | Scott was born in South Shields and went to school in Tynemouth in Stockton . |
| 17 | I was born in South London in 1955 , the fourth child and a twin . |
| 18 | The son of a wealthy English language school owner , he was born in South Wales in 1941 , and educated at The King 's School , Canterbury , and in Madrid . |
| 19 | , ( Owen ) Alfred ( 1877–1930 ) , poet and recorder of rural and industrial life , was born in South Marston , Swindon , Wiltshire , 6 February 1877 , the fifth of eight surviving children and the youngest of four sons of Elias Lloyd Williams , a decorative woodworker from Conwy , and his wife Elizabeth , daughter of Joshua Hughes , tanner and smallholder , of South Marston . |
| 20 | David Strang , who was raised in South Africa , trains in the US . |
| 21 | adult life was spent in South Africa , and erm I found a couple of years ago two books written by a remarkable while English-speaking South African called Donald Woods , who was a newspaper editor , who befriended and then championed a remarkable young black South African called Steve Beeko , who was killed in police detention . |
| 22 | A car containing hazardous chemicals was stolen in South Hylton , Sunderland . |
| 23 | The most effective ploy for forcing strong young workers to leave their family farms was invented in South Africa , where Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes imposed a tax of ten shillings on all adult males . |
| 24 | Scotland Yard said the man , who is in his 30s , was arrested in south London . |
| 25 | Mr de Klerk telephoned Mrs Thatcher at the Conservative conference in Blackpool to tell her of the decision before it was announced in South Africa . |
| 26 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |
| 27 | ON OCTOBER 27 , 1990 the ANC Youth League was relaunched in South Africa . |
| 28 | South of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi the largest percentage was recorded in South Carolina ( 31 ) and the average for the nine ( North and South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Tennessee , Alabama , Louisiana , Arkansas and Mississippi ) was 26 ; in New England , on the other hand , the average was 49 per cent , and it was 56 per cent in both the Mid-Atlantic Statistical Division ( New Jersey , New York and Pennsylvania ) and the five East North Central States . |
| 29 | While encouraging westernized intelligentsias , he did not come to terms with their nationalisms , whether he was lecturing in South Africa ( 1949 ) , advising on local government in Tanganyika ( 1950 ) , observing the Seretse Khama [ q.v. ] affair in Bechuanaland ( 1951 ) , or surveying the possibilities for a Central African Federation ( 1952 ) . |
| 30 | During 1943 , a large scale exercise was held in South Wales . |