Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [pron] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group issued a statement which said that in view of the adverse publicity accorded to a vocal minority they felt that it was their duty in the interests of democracy and employment in the area to state that there is a silent majority in favour of the proposed Raybestos development . |
| 2 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 3 | Enjoying the irony of it , and actually quite pleased to discover that Ryan had n't turned over a new leaf after all , she continued smoothly , ‘ And might I remind you , Ryan , that it was my money in the first place , not yours ? |
| 4 | I dreamed ( or daydreamed ) that it was my father in the tent , sick , and then that my whole family were there again , in the house . |
| 5 | ‘ I understand from the Echo man that it was your paper in Nature that put him onto the track , ’ Kegan said maliciously . |
| 6 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |
| 7 | In the Southern the staff as always were great and I met a new doctor who told me that he was my brother in Jesus and in the hospitals I met many Christian nurses too . |
| 8 | And who was your partner in your group ? |
| 9 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 10 | In unoccupied Spain the constituted authorities did not have the excuse of overwhelming military force and it was their failure in crisis which condemned the ancien régime . |
| 11 | Do you know she said she was n't coming to our wedding right up to the last moment , and when she did consent to come she behaved as if all the guests on my side were mud beneath her feet , though our family 's always been very well thought of around here , as I 'm sure you know , and my father could have bought her up a hundred times and not noticed the difference , and what was her father in New Zealand I wonder , some sheep dipper or other I would n't mind betting — you know the type that went to the colonies then — or perhaps he was a convict ! ’ |
| 12 | And what was your position in relation to him ? |
| 13 | and what was your desire in nineteen eighty seven before the Telegraph article , about increasing on spending advertising , keeping it the same or decreasing ? |
| 14 | Yes but it was our mistake in the first place . |
| 15 | To help their children benefit from schooling , parents need to understand what happens in school , to appreciate that methods of teaching have changed in the 15 or 20 years since they were themselves pupils in an infant or junior classroom . |
| 16 | He built and endowed almshouses in Barnet for the Leathersellers ' Company when he was its master in 1836–7 . |
| 17 | Both aroused the opposition of the traditional teachers , the brahmins in Hinduism and the rabbis in Judaism , though it was their adherents in following generations who heightened the differences until they resulted in complete separation and the founding of two new religions . |