Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | G-GWYN was pulled out the hangar , topped up with fuel and taken skyward . |
| 2 | EVIL Tom Courtney was thrown down a flight of stairs after being confronted by angry fellow prisoners , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 3 | Corbett was led down a maze of corridors and into a chamber where the Prince of Wales and Gaveston , both white-faced and sober , stood waiting to receive him . |
| 4 | Lord Aldington was asked why the Yugoslavs had not been told their destination before repatriation . |
| 5 | Christian political sources had warned that unless Major Serhal was freed immediately the incident would be a severe blow to Arab-sponsored peace efforts . |
| 6 | Valerie Place was killed just a few days after Oxfam workers had visited the area . |
| 7 | There is some evidence of the pope 's personal position on several issues — his reluctance to declare the count of Toulouse excommunicate , his care to see that Simon de Montfort was given only the wardship of the count 's lands , and his snubbing of Archbishop Siegfried of Mainz for his inopportune intervention , three times ordering him to sit down . |
| 8 | Reaching the end of the main corridor they climbed out of the cart and Endill was led down a shorter corridor where they turned left , then right , along another with squeaky floorboards . |
| 9 | In Lebanon , where the Palestinian war against Israel was focused once the PLO 's guerrilla movement was evicted from Jordan in 1970 , they were squirrelled away beneath floors or carpets , sometimes stored in rusting biscuit tins , broken suitcases and ancient trunks , often the very containers in which the refugees carried their most valuable belongings from Palestine in 1948 . |
| 10 | Who said that Jesus was born only a man and remains so until his baptism . |
| 11 | In a criminal hearing last August , Dale was put on a good behaviour bond over the incident . |
| 12 | In a land where , with a little water , anything would grow , and private gardens were a blaze of bougainvillaea and oleander , Cairo 's public gardens remained bits of desert , and the only colour in the Ezbekiya was provided once a week by the uniforms of the incredibly incompetent Egyptian regimental band . |
| 13 | Ten years later Professor Marsh was asked why the faculty refused to elect Ramsey to a lectureship . |
| 14 | As a result , Frank Bates was taken on the strength . |
| 15 | Earlier this month Mr Harris was given just a few days to live but for now his illness seems to have regressed . |
| 16 | The Joyces returned to Ireland in 1909 , and William was brought up a Roman Catholic and educated at a Jesuit college where he excelled in Latin , French , and German . |
| 17 | Next day , as Ginger was ridden down the same road , he saw that the bins were still there . |
| 18 | DAVE BASSETT was born just a Wimbledon-style boot from Wembley Stadium . |
| 19 | 82 year old Ivor James was knocked down a few yards from his home . |
| 20 | This time Leonora was allowed only a short session with Emma before Penry returned , damp about the head , but clean again in navy guernsey and tracksuit trousers , his bare feet in ancient espadrilles . |
| 21 | On January 1 , 1982 , Coetzee was transferred too the drugs squad . |
| 22 | The Treaty of Canterbury was signed later the same month and included among its provisions of the establishment of an Intergovernmental Commission to monitor the execution of the concession , and a Safety Authority which advises the Commission on all safety matters relating to the construction and operation of the Tunnel . |