Example sentences of "[pron] was [prep] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was on leave in Dorset , yes . ’ |
| 2 | S. H. One night , I was on duty in town and my mate and I was in Renshaw Street and the Chief Constable came along in civvies and said : ‘ Report yourself , gossiping on the beat . ’ |
| 3 | " She 'd gone to see her parents in Hilderbridge and I was with mine in Jackley . " |
| 4 | I remember when I was at university in Padua we went to see the basilica there . |
| 5 | Aunt Lilian had invented the Game when I was at school in order to increase my knowledge of world events and give me a sense of history . |
| 6 | We used to do erm we used to have erm a girl at school , when I was at school in east east London Stepney erm who used to bring mock banana sandwiches and that was made with mashed , parsnip and erm some sort of erm banana essence . |
| 7 | I do n't know how it went down because I was at home in bed asleep at night . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's partly related to my theory of human behaviour which I 've had since I was at Fettes in Edinburgh , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I came across feminist politics while I was at college in London in the mid-seventies . |
| 10 | At this time , when I was thirteen years old , I was about average in height and weight for my age and so would most likely be a C. This aspect of the annual weighing and measuring routine — the actual result — did n't really bother me much . |
| 11 | When I was in service in Norfolk with Mister Johnny 's parents , they used to tell me about their rich cousins in Wales and the screaming skull and the curse on the house . |
| 12 | I was in transit in London . |
| 13 | The District Council endorsed these opinions and Jacques wrote to National Secretary Harry Nutt the following week to tell him so — adding that the Council had also supported the plea for an increase in Ministry grant-aid to 90% of teaching costs , which was of course in keeping with National WEA policy . |
| 14 | Marx recognised as much when he interposed the " period of manufacture " between that of guild manufacture and that of " machino-facture " : " Inasmuch as handicraft skill formed the basis of manufacture and inasmuch as the integral mechanism which was at work in manufacture had no objective skeleton existing apart from the workers themselves , capital had continually to wrestle with the subordination of the workers . " |
| 15 | Erm it sort of backfired a bit on poor er Ray because he 'd actually written up a bid er for us to do , which was about investors in people to actually h appoint somebody to control that process which would take on board all of the training and |
| 16 | Some very old Caucasian items used the Julian calendar , which was in use in Russia until 1918 , but the difference between the two systems is negligible . |
| 17 | She wished she was at home in bed ! |
| 18 | Her husband , Gurinder , married her after they met while she was on holiday in Delhi in 1989 . |
| 19 | The ship 's captain , Adrian Hopkins , who was on trial in Dublin , was sentenced in absentia to seven years . |
| 20 | He was talking earnestly to a road-sweeper , who was at work in front of some English-style cottages with flower gardens . |
| 21 | The captain ordered the attendants to clear the dressing-room as he dialled Sawle , who was at home in Perth . |
| 22 | Whether this Luke is the same as ‘ Luke the Doctor ’ , who was with Paul in Rome while Paul was in prison ( Colossians 4:14 ) , is less certain , but most commentators are prepared to accept that he is . |
| 23 | The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) had refused to attend , due in part to court proceedings on corruption and possession of arms charges pending against prominent party officials and former president Alan García Pérez , who was in exile in Colombia [ see p. 38959 ] . |
| 24 | I want first to say something nice about the Under-Secretary of State and , on the record , to thank him for his decision in the case of Younis Patel , who was in prison in Leicester for a number of months . |
| 25 | ‘ As for value for money , it was n't per se my main concern but reorienting it from an activity-based approach of what the cost of something was to VFM in terms of delivery to the patient — evaluating what we were doing well in the sense you or I as doctor-patient would expect , the outcomes of value to the patient , establishing how much it costs to deliver ( something we could n't do but are better at now ) and then asking if it is reasonable value for money or , more interestingly , why it is cheaper in one place than another , benchmarking it . ’ |
| 26 | well Nigel Mansell might not be our only formula one champion this year … there was another Italian Grand Prix yesterday this one was on water in Milan for the powerboaters … |
| 27 | He argues that there was in force in England from the Restoration to the early twentieth century a system of marriage that approved cousin marriage ( that is , to someone of one 's blood ) and discouraged marriage to affins ( that is a relation by marriage , including inter alia , the deceased wife 's sister ) . |
| 28 | So it was with Noah in God 's second beginning , and so it is now with Abraham in his third . |
| 29 | It was at Montreuil in Ponthieu that a series of Anglo-French meetings took place over the issues of sovereignty and homage in 1306 . |
| 30 | It was at Thurso in Scotland that I 'd first seen surfers riding tubes . |