Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remained the main route from the south to Aberdeen until 1800 and Samuel Johnson , Robert Burns and Walter Scott were among the travellers who used the route . |
| 2 | Again , the counts of Flanders were in the vanguard , with Robert the Frisian and Robert II offering protection for merchants crossing the county and their peace for the duration of fairs . |
| 3 | Christopher Biggins , Lorraine Chase , Lord Owen , Oz Clarke , Delia Smith and Bruce Oldfield were among the glitterati . |
| 4 | ‘ Arsenal were worth a draw . |
| 5 | Arsenal were in the final , but Chapman poured cold water on hopes for the Double . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't like to seem stuffy friend , but if Bonanza and Mahoney were on the outs I would know it . |
| 7 | Margaret and Dickie were in the garden playing badminton when Mr Remington-Hart rang up and asked to speak to my aunt . |
| 8 | In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ . |
| 9 | Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart . |
| 10 | ‘ When he was vice-president , I met him at a stage dinner when the Reagans were in the White House and we had a dance and we talked about playing tennis . |
| 11 | Unseen by viewers was another incident during the filming at Twycross Zoo , in Leicestershire , when Crawford and Michele Dotrice were outside the cage . |
| 12 | Martha and Tilda were in the position of having no spending money , but this was less important when they were not attending school and were spared the pains of comparison , and they felt no bitterness against their mother , because she had n't any either . |
| 13 | MP Simon Burns and Chelmsford Mayor Edgar Roberts were among the dignitaries who attended Under Pressure 's official opening yesterday afternoon . |
| 14 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 15 | which was wrong , Valerie was over the moon really that she got engaged to this fellow , but he was much older than er Michelle and I , and er he did n't want to settle down |
| 16 | Wally was in the band a couple of years . |
| 17 | Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites . |
| 18 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 19 | Boro recalled full back Curtis Fleming for the injured Gary Parkinson and Falconer was in the squad for the first time since suffering a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth in September . |
| 20 | She said : ‘ Neil was on the back but he ca n't tell us much about it yet . |
| 21 | Well er , she said they had this This is Your Life on and Neil was in the room in the lounge like and he 'd sort of been half watching it and then he said urgh mum ! |
| 22 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 23 | This woman who 'd come to complain about an allegedly dangerous horse she 'd sold her was threatened by stable-hands , and Central News was told that Mrs Burt was at a funeral and unavailable for comment . |
| 24 | Engels was at a loss to explain the Junker refusal to accept that after the French Revolution they could never again command the total obedience and respect they had once enjoyed from a cowed and illiterate peasantry . |
| 25 | Engels was in no doubt that the lumpenproletariat was ‘ the worst of all possible allies . ’ |
| 26 | She rushed indoors , using her choicest language , not realising that Erica was in the orchard . |
| 27 | The powder was a pretty strong absorbent mixture and I felt sure it would do the trick , but a week later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 28 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 29 | The priest was trying to make her marry her baby 's father , the good-looking young Pablo , but Lina was in no hurry . |
| 30 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |