Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] was [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 3 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 4 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 5 | And Alvar Fañez at this time issued out from ambush , and fell upon them , on the side which was nearest the sea ; and the Moors thought that a great power had arrived to the Cid 's succour , and they were dismayed , and began to fly . |
| 6 | She pointed to a vacant seat which was at the end of a row near the gangway . |
| 7 | They say officers did n't call a vital witness who was in the room where Wiltshire was stabbed . |
| 8 | Tell granddad who was in the house yesterday morning when we woke up can you remember ? |
| 9 | You remember all the talk there was at the time , Arthur ? " |
| 10 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 11 | AT 9 PM he was on the operating table . |
| 12 | For example once he went to Rome on business and when he got back he told me about a building which was like the sky at night , so big that even when you stood in front of it you could n't believe you were actually seeing it . |
| 13 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 14 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 15 | In the light of the quite different issue which was before the House in Gillick 's case I venture to doubt whether Lord Scarman meant more than that the exclusive right of the parents to consent to treatment terminated , but I may well be wrong . |
| 16 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 17 | On off-duty garda who was in the bank knocked the burning man to the ground and doused the flames with a fire extinguisher . |
| 18 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 19 | Yeah , that 's that bloke who was on the bike |
| 20 | Clifford and another constable who was in the car got down to the foreshore as quickly as they could on the offchance that the man was alive and needed help , but they soon saw that he was n't . |
| 21 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 22 | I ONCE asked Ross Clarke-Jones — a laconic Australian who was on the Tour but also liked to surf big Waimea — which would be his ultimate experience : a big wave or a tube ? |
| 23 | He stood in the middle of the room , surveying Jehan , and the guard who was beside the door eyed him nervously . |
| 24 | That girl who was in the elevator plunged on the ninth floor she plunged a thousand feet to the sub-basement or there 's massive big springs on it apparently , I read about it . |
| 25 | Labour condemned General Noriega as a corrupt dictator , but Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , demanded to know what rationale in international law there was for the invasion . |
| 26 | By the end of the first lap he was in the lead group , following Klementiev , Bohacs and Zereske with Bartunek already in the process of being dropped and no-one else in sight . |
| 27 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 28 | And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches . |
| 29 | Like subjects were grouped together ; thus Dewey 's scheme grouped together material on the electron and located it with material on other sub-atomic particles , which was grouped together with material on molecular and atomic physics in general , which was grouped together with other aspects of physics ; physics itself was in the science section of the scheme , together with other sciences . |
| 30 | I think she 'd become a habit with him , if you know what I mean — and of course she was at the root of the trouble between Silas and me . ’ |