Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 11 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 12 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 17 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 18 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 19 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 20 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 21 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 22 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 23 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 24 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 25 | Back again on Grace , Tilda was messing about at the foot of the mast with a black and yellow flag , one of the very few they had . |
| 26 | Major petrographical studies on the rocks of various parts of Scotland were carried out by the Petrographer in London . |
| 27 | Having read about the way in which Adam and Eve were beguiled out of the garden , Christians settle for being innocent as doves and leave others to be wise as serpents . |
| 28 | CHILE were thrown out of the 1994 World Cup by Fifa yesterday after forcing their decisive 1990 qualifier against Brazil to be abandoned in Rio when their players walked off claiming that the Chilean goalkeeper , Roberto Rojas , had been injured by a flare . |
| 29 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 30 | The horsemen of Ellyrion were pulled down by the foul beasts of Chaos . |