Example sentences of "mr [noun] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Baughan was pushed out of his chair and battered with a piece of wood . |
| 2 | Mr Mitterrand was put out by a whole series of German slights , culminating in the chancellor 's hesitations over Economic and Monetary Union before the European Community 's summit in December . |
| 3 | Mr Ross was coming out of a door . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 5 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 6 | But when the new meeting took place , those members present refused to select a candidate until Mr Knight was put back in contention . |
| 7 | At the end of his studies , Mr Pozsgay was sent back in 1957 to Kecskemet , to become director of the county party committee 's Marxism-Leninism evening school . |
| 8 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 9 | Mr Munby was summing up on day two of a historic test case that will decide the fate of Tony , who has been in a coma for three and a half years . |
| 10 | Mr Dyson was stocking up with sacks of flour and sugar and boxes of dried fruit , and the shelves high on the walls of the shop carried forty-eight pound jars of jam and mincemeat . |
| 11 | Mr Endara was sworn in as President shortly after midnight last night , on a US military base , in the presence of a US Major-General , with members of Panamanian human rights groups as witnesses . |
| 12 | The third sitting member , Alan Montgomery , made it clear that he would not be running , but Mr McGimpsey was squeezed out for one of the other two Unionist nominations . |
| 13 | The unsuspecting and very sloshed Mr Harding was bundled out of the pub and into the back of Armstrong with the four girls in various stages of undress . |
| 14 | Mr Major was expected back in London at midnight , after his 12-hour visit . |
| 15 | By coincidence , Mr Connolly was looking out of his window four weeks later and spotted Watson preparing to attack another pensioner . |
| 16 | Mr James was brought in by Eagle 's creditor banks — the group has debts of over £80m — and has been given until the end of next year to turn the business around . |
| 17 | Mr Multhrop was hurrying up to her . |
| 18 | While Mr Stych was canoeing back down a tributary of the Mackenzie– already dangerous with chunks of ice , to an appointment with a helicopter , Mr Frizzell was trying on his last year 's brocade waistcoat and finding it too small ; Mr MacDonald , Ian 's father , was winding up a trying compensation case for his insurance company at Vermilion ; and Mr MacDonald ( oil ) was trying to explain to his superiors in Sarnia , Ontario , why he must be back in a place like Tollemarche by the middle of December . |