Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Kalyan Singh was sworn in as the new Chief Minister [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 5 | Ringo Starr was rolled out for the encores and thrashed about enthusiastically enough . |
| 6 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The following morning Richard was taken down to the treatment room and given his first induction of air . |
| 9 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 10 | Substitute Warzycha was forced on to the field after only ten minutes after Ward was stretchered off . |
| 11 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 12 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 13 | Norbert was sent back into the real world , but within weeks he had registered as a disabled person and returned to the hospital . |
| 14 | Nicholson was caught up in the aftermath and became Hollywood 's hottest property to emerge for two decades . |
| 15 | And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Distillery boss Billy Hamilton fears the worst after Heath was assisted off in the second-half with a torn calf muscle . |
| 18 | Periodically Utrillo was allowed out of the asylum for a few days and occasionally he escaped . |
| 19 | In fact the Ravenscraig , present Ravenscraig was built up on the first place from a steelworks known then as Corral Steelworks . |
| 20 | The Peugeot was pushed on to the other side of the road and was in collision with a Sierra driven by Leslie Green , of Runcorn , Cheshire , who was travelling in the opposite direction . |
| 21 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 22 | Frank was brought up in the Hollywood studio tradition and expected producers to exert a large amount of control , but Lester 's lack of freedom did not stop him changing parts of the script — including all of Gawford 's scenes — and reducing the number of songs . |
| 23 | Slowly , Aenarion was drawn down into the daemon 's innards . |
| 24 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 25 | Prague was chosen on as the site of the permanent secretariat of the CSCE . |
| 26 | In September 1990 W. was referred back to the clinic which had seen her three years before and began sessions with a clinical psychologist . |
| 27 | But Donald was doubled up on the sofa . |
| 28 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 29 | Three minutes after the break , City know it was not going to be their day , they themselves were awarded a penalty when Frankie Machavellio was brought down in the area . |
| 30 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |