Example sentences of "and [noun] [noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is English , probably dating from c.1540–50 , and confirms that the type of coffin depicted in the Bedford and Egerton manuscripts was in use in Britain . |
| 2 | ‘ Mr Evans was at a Council meeting and Auntie Lou was at the Chapel , cleaning up for Sunday . |
| 3 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 4 | In the 1150s the papal chamberlain , Cardinal Boso , elaborated the statement of the papacy 's financial rights and Cardinal Albinus was at work on a compilation in the 1180s under Lucius II . |
| 5 | A joint statement said that a ministerial commission for co-operation in military training and defence industries was to be set up . |
| 6 | After ten years in partnership , Nik Powell vacated his office at Virgin in less than twenty-four hours , and Richard Branson was on his own . |
| 7 | He also pointed out that Ferlinghetti was in Paris and Gregory Corso was in Italy . |
| 8 | WHAT J.D. Salinger is to literature and Bobby Fischer was to chess , Van Cliburn is to classical music — the great success who gives it all up , without anyone understanding exactly why . |
| 9 | For Marx and Engels society was to be analysed in terms of the social organization of production , which in The German Ideology they called the division of labour . |
| 10 | ‘ I saw Gabriel on the cover of a magazine , and David Mellor was on the cover of something else and I thought , who 's looking funkier ? |
| 11 | Paul McGurnaghan 's shot came back off the base of the post and David Eddis was on hand to hammer the ball into the net . |
| 12 | At Knossos too the wall and ceiling plaster was in some rooms modelled into relief forms , sometimes abstract , like the spiral reliefs found in the North Sector , sometimes representational , like the Bull Relief from the North Entrance Passage or the Bull-Grappling Fresco from the East Wing . |
| 13 | Last night I dreamed I used a chair at the hairdresser 's as a toilet and Maggie Smith was in the next chair . |
| 14 | The one exception came just seconds from half-time when the defence was slow to mop up the danger when Richardson 's corner was only parried , and Alan Dowd was in the right place to equalise . |
| 15 | The supranational and bonding element was to be provided by the quasi-executive Commission of nine members appointed for renewable four-year terms by the national governments . |
| 16 | That , plus the fact that less than 24 hours later the squad for Australia and South Africa was to named , concentrated the minds of the All Blacks most effectively . |
| 17 | But Mutch and Bull , 300 goals between them , fired blanks all afternoon and rookie Hoult was in sharp form anyway . |
| 18 | Besides , Lina was an expectant mother , and Abuelo Freitas was on their list of elderly patients in need of regular visits . |
| 19 | The Frenchman was a lawyer , and Sir Anthony was on the board of the building firm which Gillian 's father mostly owned ; air traffic was increasing , bonanza time , and the company had appointed Anthony to be their emissary on a proposal for a joint venture on a new terminal . |
| 20 | At the close at four thirty the Footsie one hundred stood at one nine nine O point three and Wall Street was down fifty-two point three points at two four six O point five . |
| 21 | We were on the green for five shots , and Mr Lu was on the side of the green for two . |
| 22 | It was Christmas week ( whether this time of the year had any significance or not can not be explained ) and Mr Hayden was in the staff mess room writing up the log book . |
| 23 | It was perhaps fortunate for both of them that Mr Toogood was in America and Mr Shelve was at home in Haslemere with influenza , but publishers had to go to America and they were also as likely as anyone else to catch influenza , Penelope explained . |
| 24 | In November last I raised , in an Adjournment debate , the question of adult education in Croydon and Mr. Speaker was in the Chair because of his great interest in the subject . |
| 25 | And Rupert Stonebird was in Perugia , which was miles away . |
| 26 | He died and Princess Elizabeth was in Kenya at the time ! |
| 27 | The festival took place on May 9 at Chelsea Harbour as part of the National Wine Week , and Prince Edward was in attendance . |
| 28 | Bishop Peter has been bishop of Gloucester for just eight months and Prince Charles was among the guests at his enthronement in April . |
| 29 | Traffic was running about 20 minutes late by 10am that day out of Chester on the Down lines , and platform space was at a premium . |
| 30 | His decision is now being appealed and Mrs Hamilton was in court yesterday when it was contended that Lord Prosser had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |