Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Marie was wading up to the path through waist-high reeds : ‘ Look at the state of my clothes ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 6 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 7 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mrs Wright was sitting down on the bank , the gun across her knees . |
| 12 | And at the same time , Lilian was coming up to the second stage . |
| 13 | The lights went down further , and I guessed Kruger was working up to the big climax , whatever that was . |
| 14 | Ellen was hurrying out of the solar . |
| 15 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 16 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 17 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 18 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 19 | Mrs Parvis was standing out on the front doorstep , pretending to watch out for something in the sky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 22 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 23 | Alan was sitting down at the end of the lawn , his back to the house ‘ so you do n't distract me ’ , finishing off some work for Monday . |
| 24 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 25 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 26 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 27 | I closed my eyes for the rest of the journey as it had been a busy two days and I did n't feel lik& going to the council offices either , It would be too late anyway so I decided to take a stroll by the river and see how Nigel was getting on with the excavations . |
| 28 | Mendez was looking over at the bar ; Russell down at his drink , as if thinking or listening . |
| 29 | Distillery boss Billy Hamilton fears the worst after Heath was assisted off in the second-half with a torn calf muscle . |
| 30 | ‘ Shortly after it returned , Pete was rolling around on the carpet and found a titbit , ’ Andrew explained . |