Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a pool of isolation and she was in the middle of it . |
| 2 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 3 | Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood . |
| 4 | Just recently I went out with my sister and girlfriend and we were in a restaurant looking for a table . |
| 5 | In any case it was Shirley who had typed the card and she was in a higher or lower world that cared nothing for such trivia . |
| 6 | A hurried tea and they were on the move again . |
| 7 | Robert , Ann and I were in a peculiar position in the elementary school for the Headmaster was our father . |
| 8 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 9 | There was like a prawl in the flywheel , and you pulled a lever like that and it , there was n't a connection on to the , like on to the crankshaft with a starting handle , this thing was on the flywheel and it was like a lever |
| 10 | Within an hour he had kissed Maeve adieu and they were on the road south to Westminster . |
| 11 | Miller was unstinting in the service of the Bristol Institution and it was as a result of his efforts that the museum — a precursor of the later City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery — became firmly established . |
| 12 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |
| 13 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) That a requirement that the plaintiffs should give an undertaking had no justification in Community law since any obligation to make good any damage suffered by the defendants in the event of section 47 being found to be in breach of article 30 of the Treaty would fall upon the United Kingdom Government ; that accordingly , the question was to be decided on the ordinary principles of English law and it was within the judge 's discretion not to require an undertaking in damages ; and that in the circumstances , the grant of an interlocutory injunction was fully justified and should be restored ( post , pp. 173D–F , 189A–H , 190A–C , D , D–E ) . |
| 15 | It was 1975 and I was being charged under the Obscene Publications Act and it was like the Oz trial , so I was interviewed . |
| 16 | ‘ That old woman did the business , word-perfect , she was perfect , the jury took one look at that little old lady and he was off the hook , she never made a slip . |
| 17 | ‘ He was very much an East End boy and I was from the country , ’ explains Shrimpton . |
| 18 | Faldo , who took five at the next short hole , added : ‘ I was only 10ft from the flag and I was in a hole . |
| 19 | Her hair was hanging almost to her small waist and it was of a colour she had never seen before , not around these quarters anyway . |
| 20 | It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street . |
| 21 | It needed no great powers of prophecy to realize that Nigel and I were on a collision course . |
| 22 | The cancer had spread from the breast to various other areas including the bones and she was as a result suffering considerable pain which was not controlled by pain-killers . |
| 23 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't been up in winter but I was on the south-west face in 1972 when we finally gave up our attempt in mid-November , and we were only getting a taste of the conditions they will face . |
| 25 | Another five minutes and they were at the edge of the meadow . |
| 26 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 27 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 28 | And er there was only one who could n't take part and he was in the fire brigade and could n't take part because they were er his employers . |
| 29 | So anyway I said , oh well get some change and I was on the point of sa I said to Margaret shall we jump in the ruddy car and we 'll get back . |
| 30 | Vic and the crew were on the bank , Matt and I were on the raft with about a dozen Indians paddling and poling . |