Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bruce was in the hammock and Mr and Mrs van Meer were sitting side-by-side on the steps . |
| 2 | The British staff at Culham were pointing out to the eminent scientists that they are paid less than their colleagues from fourteen other European countries working alongside them . |
| 3 | In addition , whilst Falangists Arrese and Girón de Velasco were ousted respectively from the Party Secretariat and the Ministry of Labour , they were replaced by two men who were also Falangists but who , by contrast , were known to be more moderate and flexible in their views than their predecessors . |
| 4 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 6 | The Swiss proved to be ferocious fighters , and in 1415 the Habsburgs were driven out of the Aargau , but although Aarau was allowed to keep the rights granted by the Habsburgs , it was soon clear to the Argovians that Swiss victory merely meant they had exchanged one landlord for another . |
| 7 | RECENT violent scenes outside the Timex plant in Dundee were condemned yesterday by the vice-president of Timex Corporation and chairman of Timex Electronics Corporation , John Dryfe . |
| 8 | Shatila and Bourj el-Brajneh were shelled incessantly from the month of May 1988 . |
| 9 | Take one simple example : in 1975 journalists Sydney Schanberg , Jon Swain and photographer Al Rockoff were holed up in the French Embassy in Phnom Penh trying to come up with a way of preventing Dith Pran being taken by the Khmer Rouge and to get out of there alive . |
| 10 | The issues in Samson were focused commonly on the internal struggles of the individual confronted with temptation , and whether the poem achieved a tragic dimension or not . |
| 11 | The Honourable Diana Spencer was born late on the afternoon of July 1,1961 , the third daughter of Viscount Althorp , then aged 37 , and Viscountess Althorp , 12 years his junior . |
| 12 | Cossins also filmed a sequence with Crawford on Wimbledon Common , shown behind the end titles , in which Frank Spencer was running away from the grounds where the course was being held , with the organizer chasing him . |
| 13 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 14 | Well , United started in fine style as early as the twentieth second ; Martin Foyle was brought down on the edge of the penalty area and Paul Simpson 's free kick was headed away for a corner . |
| 15 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 16 | On Dec. 1 President Ramaswamy Venkataraman received assurances of " outside " support for a minority National Front government from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Left Front parties ; the next day V. P. Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister , in place of Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 17 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 18 | The deceptively demure Meredith was led outside by the masked Lucenzo . |
| 19 | Meredith was drinking alone in the Oyster Bar , thinking of Hilary , when a small man with sideburns and an anxious expression approached him . |
| 20 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 21 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 22 | Ari was taken aback by the vehemence of his last remark . |
| 23 | Many medieval millers paid their rent to the lord of the manor in eels ; and when the water-mill in the centre of Stafford was pulled down after the last war , the laconic miller expressed as his only regret : ‘ I shall miss the eels . ’ |
| 24 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 25 | Back at Club Eleusis , Jahsaxa Penumbra was tripping out like the bad queen in a fairy-tale cartoon , the only omission being the thunderclouds and lightning round her head . |
| 26 | There is a third sister in this euphonious family : Marina , the baptised name of Malinche , mistress of Cortèz , through whose good offices and linguistic skills Mexico was conquered both for the Virgin Maria , and for Marina 's royal ancestors . |
| 27 | Mrs Wright was coming slowly along the ride towards them . |
| 28 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 29 | Hennessy was waiting outside by the railings . |
| 30 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |