Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a notice of appeal dated 22 July 1991 the administrators appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the court had no jurisdiction to make any order under section 238 of the Act of 1986 against the bank ; ( 2 ) the judge should have held that the words ‘ any person ’ in section 238 meant ( in the case of a company ) any company , whether or not registered in England and Wales , or having a place of business in England and Wales , or carrying on business in England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; alternatively , that those words ( in the case of a company ) meant any company with a sufficient connection with England and Wales : and that , on the facts of the case , there was a sufficient connection ; and in either case the court accordingly had jurisdiction to entertain the originating application against the bank , and to grant leave under rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 to serve the bank in Jersey ; and ( 3 ) in construing section 238 of the Act of 1986 the judge had erred in failing ( i ) to hold that the bank , even though a Jersey company , was within the class of persons with respect to whom Parliament was to be presumed to be legislating in section 238 ; ( ii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the mischief which the section was intended to remedy , and/or to the disastrous practical consequences for all insolvencies with any international element if the operation of the section were limited to those within England and Wales at the time of the transaction complained of ; ( iii ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the legislative context of the section and related sections ; and ( iv ) to give any or any sufficient weight to the fact that the transactions dealt with by the sections necessarily had a connection with England and Wales in that they involved a disposition of the property of a person or company the subject of insolvency proceedings before the courts of England and Wales . |
| 2 | And we , all them motorbikes was on er the edge . |
| 3 | I thought I detected a faint smile on his lips , but I did not smile back because my heart was in a turmoil . |
| 4 | We went to the christening and my heart was in my mouth it was on edge the whole time . |
| 5 | My story was about a girl who finds a bedraggled kitten who is really a king . |
| 6 | My story was of a murder taking place in a boys ' preparatory boarding school ( " looking-back book " in miniature , in fact ) with the victim being a pet bird . |
| 7 | When I did eventually look in the mirror my hair was in patches , like little bits of baby hair . |
| 8 | My driver was under the impression that I had instructed him to break the world land-speed record . |
| 9 | My driver was in conversation with Sir Victor Sassoon 's driver , who informed him that his employer had considerable confidence in his horse . |
| 10 | My chest was on fire . |
| 11 | ‘ My bike was worth ten . ’ |
| 12 | I , I had , my foot was in that way . |
| 13 | I 'm sitting there , my foot was near the toilet , all you see was this big claws come out digging into my toe there 's me aargh ! you stupid She 's mad ! |
| 14 | The block is three storeys high and my apartment was on the second floor . |
| 15 | Did I mention , by the way , that my money was on the Croat to win the Men 's Singles ? |
| 16 | And , while I was not in possession of definite proof , my money was on it coming from somewhere a little further away than the Fulham Palace Road . |
| 17 | IF I were one of the millions who good heartedly subscribe on a regular basis to the NSPCC , I would , at the moment , be seriously considering whether my money was in sensible hands . |
| 18 | I wanted my mum or Ian , but my mum was at home and Ian had been told to go into the waiting room . |
| 19 | My mum was on her own ! |
| 20 | My route was from Red Hall to the Havelock pub using the old railway track , soon to be another noise and fume-filled racetrack , courtesy of Durham brains and Darlington apathy . |
| 21 | My Sister was at Sandy , but up to her eyes in her work with the Maquis . |
| 22 | There 'd be just us two , see cos all the others they was out , my sister was on the round |
| 23 | But as he got older this , that was in the family though , my sister was like that , Olga , the one what used to be with us . |
| 24 | My basement was like a swimming pool . |
| 25 | ‘ At one time I thought my vocation was to be a surgeon or doctor . |
| 26 | In fact , my level was under the lowest measurement given , which is 3.1 . |
| 27 | I really needed a rest and my hope was to be fit for the start of the National League programme at the end of September , but I doubt if that will be the case . |
| 28 | My jaw was on the carriage floor the first time I took the train to Mallaig . |
| 29 | My Maria was in a small bed in a cold room upstairs , coughing badly . |
| 30 | Not that the state of my underwear was of crucial importance the day I became part of Britain 's road accident statistics . |