Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] in [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 She wished desperately that Ellen were in London that she might send Lizzie to judge how Oreste fared and what he understood , but as it was she had no means of knowing .
2 Unsurprisingly Hilliard was in Birmingham when he made this impassioned outburst against machinery .
3 The respected Philips producer/engineer Volker Straus was in charge and I wonder if the combination of the acknowledged problems of the Berlin Philharmonic hall , and the fact that Laser Disc and VHS video versions are to be released shortly , led to this untypical spotlighting in what is otherwise a most impressive recording .
4 Dr Agerholme was in charge and she was quite willing to have me there .
5 A new regime behind bars The prison system in independent Latvia was in disarray so it called in a troubleshooter from Scotland to help .
6 That would be about sixty , sixty one as I see , and er they were the last match of the season virtually was that they gained promotion on was Shrewsbury , which was at the game meadow and Arthur , the player manager who was a prolific goal scorer in his day , was playing at the time and er nobody expected Walsall to win but they ran out two-one winners and all down the A five that night all the pubs were full coming back with everyone celebrating , so erm , after then they had a civic dinner at the Town Hall for the players and they did a big flower display in the arboretum all set out in flowers the club badge and congratulation lads on winning promotion , and this when they kicked off the following season , in the second division , prior to that they played a friendly match against Leicester and Gordon was in goal and I took my boy with me Tim , who was only a toddler at the time , and he , I stood him on the old archway where the players used to run out , but the first league match was against Sunderland and Brian , actually played for Sunderland as centre forward and er Walsall ran out four-three winners in the end Tony , who was Walsall inside left got a hat trick and I believe Tommy , got the other goal and Brian scored for Sunderland , then the er we went on to the , the first away match which was at Derby County , and Walsall won that three-one .
7 She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls .
8 When I was at the GLC , Ken Livingstone was in charge and I thought it was the beginning of Utopia , so many wonderful things were happening at last .
9 Andrew was in bed and she just whipped out so Nicky could say goodnight to her daddy .
10 Student nurse Carolyn Blanshard was in car when it was hit from behind .
11 Jerome was dead , Nora was in Germany and she was in Some-thing-or-other Royal Infirmary .
12 Lawrie McMenemy was in Rome and I shall be talking to him about it . ’
13 And she says Jean you know well you can see er she says you know the day before Ros was in Lisburn and she says you know the way when you 're standing and from the back you can feel somebody that their eyes are penetrating through you and she said she happened to turn round and there she 's sitting in , in this girl 's car and just er looked at her like that .
14 By then Adolf Hitler was in power and we heard all sorts .
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