Example sentences of "[noun prp] were [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The second half exploded when Middlesbrough full back Jimmy Phillips and Southend goalkeeper Paul Sansome were sent off in the space of seven minutes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Youngs were standing up in the dining room , ready to go to bed . |
| 6 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 7 | The original devolution arrangements for Ulster were set out in the Government of Ireland Act 1920 , supported by several conventional arrangements . |
| 8 | Attacks on the Beira corridor pipeline to Zimbabwe were stepped up in the early weeks of 1990 . |