Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [was/were] among " in BNC.

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1 Maybe I was just a provincial or something , but I began to see that I was among the strangest audience I 'd seen in that place .
2 Frances told me about their life in Cornwall and I felt for the first time in my life that I was among people of an older generation that I understood , real people .
3 The suggestion has been made before now that it was among the Basques that this future rebel against the king of England learnt his what were , for the time , dangerously democratic principles .
4 The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published .
5 But it was not until recently that Birkenhead Abbeyfield Society heard from the Public Trustee Office , a government department , that it was among local charities to benefit from the legacy and would receive £120,000 .
6 Dedicated work in the nets resulted in such an improvement in his batting that he was among the top five scorers in the Cup with 383 runs at 47.87 , including his maiden century against the Leewards , Curtly Ambrose et al .
7 Quite a few prominent people were to pay for that series defeat and it must have been a cruel disappointment for Mains that he was among those replaced .
8 On May 12 the national treasurer of the DC , Senator Severino Citaristi , was given notice that he was among those to be included in the investigation , for allegedly accepting a bribe of the equivalent of $650,000 ; he claimed on May 13 that the sum had been a legitimate contribution made to party funds .
9 Emburey 's last Test was against Australia at Old Trafford in 1989 , the game in which it was announced that he was among 16 rebels who had decided to tour South Africa and accept an international ban .
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