Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diver who found her body — John Farrar — broke a 23-year silence to claim that Mary Jo Kopechne was kept alive in an air pocket inside the senator 's car . |
| 2 | On Dec. 1 a Jewish settler was shot dead in an ambush near Ramallah and el-Bireh on the West Bank . |
| 3 | At 1334 hours , the GCA final controller noted that aircraft was going low in the glide path at 7 miles . |
| 4 | But any charm the scenery may have had was lost on one member of the crew : James McKeatling was taken sick in the far-from-healthy climate , and was left on shore . |
| 5 | At one time Hakami was ranked 32nd in the world , and her 21-year-old opponent from Birmingham often looked out of her depth , especially in a 27-minute first set . |
| 6 | At one time Hakami was ranked 32nd in the world , and her 21-year-old opponent from Birmingham often looked out of her depth , especially in a 27-minute first set . |
| 7 | ‘ When cocaine was made cheaper in the form of crack , that 's when things started dying , that 's when more crimes started happening , that 's when more people started dropping out of school to make that dollar . ’ |
| 8 | When the programme was broadcast live in the US last October , it had an audience of 33 million . |
| 9 | Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night . |
| 10 | Gardai launched a full scale search for the men when their empty boat was spotted adrift in the water on Friday night . |
| 11 | Next day a violent storm of criticism and derision was let loose in the press , while the long review by Apollinaire in L'Intransïgeant served to establish him as the champion of the group . |
| 12 | During the nineteenth century this link between the type of housing and the social structure of the village was made explicit in the lowland farming areas by the division between ‘ open ’ and ‘ closed ’ villages . |
| 13 | Exactly a month later ‘ Good Samaritan ’ Philomena Hanna was shot dead in the Springfield Road chemist 's shop where she worked . |
| 14 | The 20-year-old trooper was shot dead in a Belfast riot six months before she was born . |
| 15 | Be it a coincidence or an answer to prayer , Ray Powell , a senior backbencher and a strong supporter of the Keep Sunday Special campaign was drawn third in the ballot . |
| 16 | The girl was sitting hunched-up in the back seat . |
| 17 | After the film , each child was left alone in a room to play with a Bobo doll . |
| 18 | This philosophy was developed first in the seventeenth century and it has become increasingly influential ever since . |
| 19 | And when Saunders was sent clear in the 40th minute , Seaman saved at point-blank range on the edge of his area . |
| 20 | Tony Dobson was found dead in the yard at Roundhill Farm , Roundhill Road , near Hurworth , where he often used steam equipment to clean the Volvo articulated lorry . |
| 21 | Mr Goult was found dead in an armchair at his ground floor flat in Woolfall Heath Avenue , Huyton , on Saturday afternoon . |
| 22 | A LABOURER who was depressed because he could n't get a job was found dead in the rear of a stolen van parked behind a college annex , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 23 | Nearly every weekday afternoon Matilda was left alone in the house . |
| 24 | Elaine was sitting hunched in a corner , rocking back and forth , her head buried in her crossed arms . |
| 25 | In February this year Martin was awarded 130,000 in an out of coirt settlement but there was no money . |
| 26 | Not so long ago Paddy was lying ill in the attic bedroom , now here he was changing bread into the body of Christ and wine into His blood . |
| 27 | Mrs Amelia Bloomer , an American , whose eponymous , bifurcated undergarment was considered revolutionary in the early part of the last century , was passionately concerned with showing women that they could combine beauty with utility . |
| 28 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 29 | A BRITISH tourist who vanished while sight-seeing in South Africa was found dead in a ravine yesterday . |
| 30 | Although the moon was riding high in the sky , and shedding a rather weird , eerie glow on the flowering shrubs and various trees edging the green lawn , she was surprised at how much more calm and at ease she felt in the soft , enveloping darkness as she picked her way carefully over the sand . |