Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | For a long time the Drus were passed off as a mere shoulder of the greater Aiguille Verte . |
| 6 | But he stood there watching until the little car had disappeared , as though Ellen were setting off on a long and dangerous journey from which she might never return . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Matanzimas were forced out after a military coup nearly two years ago . |
| 9 | On this occasion , Plage was set up over a water-hole in a clearing in the jungle , hoping that a leopard would show up to hunt or drink . |
| 10 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 13 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 16 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 17 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 18 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In many respects the ‘ New Conservatism ’ in Britain and the United States was born out of a reaction to the high inflation of the mid-1970s . |
| 24 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 25 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 26 | United were wobbling ; Hoddle was winding up for a big finish . |
| 27 | John Fillon-Payoux was knocked down by a car . |
| 28 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 29 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 30 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |