Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made me think a lot about photography while I was in prison ; it was like why are you doing this ? ’ |
| 2 | It sounded as if all this was as much about money as it was about religion . |
| 3 | She said Ken could look after Apricot because he was at home when she was out . |
| 4 | But then the other stuff started happening , personal things , just like a soap opera , the same sort of chaos as it was with the Jeremy/Peter/Danny saga . |
| 5 | The latter decision does not effect any alteration to the English law of negligence as it was in 1976 , or 1967 when the cause of action in that case and this arose . |
| 6 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 7 | when you come and stay with me , she , anyway she , she would n't , well in the end I just said that 's it I 've had enough I switched the car off and grabbed hold of her I said , frogmarched her in the car I said come on , I 'm going to bed , Rudy 's ready for bed I said I want you with me , so that I can keep me eye on you if I have to sit up all bloody night , of course when she was with me I picked her up and got her strong again and I say you have to be worth it , you 're better off without him then she come round and then she 'd say I know I am I just go down |
| 8 | Full of admiration as I was for these brave , sturdy survivors , it was kidneys I was now interested in . |
| 9 | So that cost an awful lot of money because he was on a grant of course and he , he spent er about a year as a trainee teacher and we thought that was great because he was , he was dealing with , with er |
| 10 | Dozens of of Gay Rights campaigners have been arrested for marching too close to the Houses of Parliament whilst it was in session . |
| 11 | Sinatra stormed off of the set of Carousel on the first day of shooting because it was to be shot in both the new CinemaScope 55 format and the standard ‘ flat ’ ratio , meaning everything had to be shot twice . |
| 12 | He was as pathetically unqualified in the art of murder as he was at golf or philosophy . |
| 13 | There was a pool of isolation and she was in the middle of it . |
| 14 | The assistant will also be guilty of theft if she was in league with the customer , e.g. Pilgram v Rice-Smith [ 1977 ] 1 WLR 671 ( DC ) . |
| 15 | The conversation ranged widely through wildlife management , the history of the landscape and of hunting and he was on very shaky ground there I can tell you control of pests , he likened a farmer killing a rat with a dog , to the whole panoply of fox hunting . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nancy signed the pledge when she was a young girl and did n't touch a drop of alchohol until she was in her nineties . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a sort of joke when I was at Oxford . |
| 19 | She much preferred to take a cab in to the centre of town when she was on these assignments . |
| 20 | Murder was the first destroyer of privacy as it was of so much else . |
| 21 | He helped form the midweek walkers ' club for retired friends who shared his love of walking and it was after one of their regular meetings that he died . |
| 22 | Surely in 1993 we do not need a Great Homer Street system of trading as it was in the 1920s . |
| 23 | He thinks he 's on some sort of blacklist because he was in the International Brigade . ’ |
| 24 | I was er four I left the school at fourteen years of age and I was down the pit the following day . |
| 25 | And er that 's right there was only four of us then and erm this little coffin was there and my sister was trying to feed him a piece of apple while he was in his coffin , saying do you want a piece of apple in Welsh to him . |
| 26 | Suddenly the eagle opened his wings , fell back in an arc of restricted flight , and dashed his talons on the far side of his cage before plunging back towards Creggan , so powerfully and full of anger that it was as if he had forgotten that there were two walls of bars and iron mesh between them . |
| 27 | Consequently death is no longer in the midst of life as it was for our ancestors and still is in many Third World countries . |
| 28 | Here , you 'll get an authentic taste of life as it was in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . |
| 29 | In that case the appellant who was , and is , serving a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment for murder , sought a declaration against the Parole Board and the Secretary of State that he was in effect entitled to know the reasons for refusing to release him on licence . |
| 30 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |