Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] in these " in BNC.
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| 1 | While I was in these fine showrooms I saw exquisite pieces of antique furniture , old silver , paintings , porcelain , figures , antique clocks , masses of objets d'art , and the most fabulous coral and white Meissen porcelain dinner service — I just stood and gazed at it with sheer enjoyment ! |
| 2 | And you was in these top rooms with the the stoves , but erm they had gas stoves , under the irons . |
| 3 | But er that was one of the things er he kep it was an enjoyable trip and the roads were in these days , er you get the motorways today , I just think on the roads , what they were in these days , there was even some places we went through a ford in the middle of the road , with the water about two or three inches deep . |
| 4 | It was in these years that the main contours of ‘ Thatcherism ’ as a phenomenon were firmly established . |
| 5 | It was in these very multi-ethnic areas with their myriad problems that ‘ political agitators exploit civil liberties issues , and play down the issue of communal security … individual liberties are important , but we must not become so obsessed with them that we overlook the importance of communal freedom . ’ |
| 6 | The hours devoted to farm work by the part-time farmers was fairly high and it was in these predominantly part-time farm areas that the discrepancy between hours required and hours worked was highest . |
| 7 | It was in these smaller and older streets that urban life existed in all its jostle and bustle . |
| 8 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 9 | It may seem odd to begin a description of Roland Michell with an excursus into the complicated relations of Blackadder , Cropper and Ash , but it was in these terms that Roland most frequently thought of himself . |
| 10 | It was in these circumstances that Blackpool bought six open-top trams from the London United Tramways Company in July 1919 . |
| 11 | Other special Air Force camps were built in different parts of Germany and it was in these that I eventually spent my rime as a prisoner . |
| 12 | It was in these tumours that the peptide , called human pancreas growth hormone releasing factor , or hpGRF , was discovered . |
| 13 | It was in these countries , and also in Catalonia , that the most radical solution to the problem of multiple homage was attempted . |
| 14 | It was in these circumstances that the LDDC had to go to the Treasury for more money in 1989/90 , and again in 1990/91 , and was very successful in getting what it wanted . |
| 15 | As we shall see , it was in these two schools that the largest measurable changes of attitude and option choice occurred . |
| 16 | Important as it is to the understanding of the world today , it was in these years only occasionally decisive for Europe . |
| 17 | It was in these areas that the depressed level of grain prices caused most hardship . |
| 18 | It was in these conditions that Marxist ideas began to gain currency . |
| 19 | And it was in these places that Nazarean tradition was to continue . |
| 20 | Inland , the whole landscape is essentially a domesticated one until on its northern and western fringes the Highlands begin to lift their stern shoulders ; yet it was in these desirable lowlands that many of the most violent deeds in Scottish history were planned or carried out . |
| 21 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 22 | It was in these arid regions , where twenty per cent . |
| 23 | In the serrania ( the mountain districts ) there were large areas of poor pasture or small holdings and it was in these regions rather than on the great estates that Anarchism was later to find its most fanatical adherents . |
| 24 | It was in these circumstances that the matter came before Booth J. on 3 April 1992 . |
| 25 | It was in these and these alone that we were determined to reach our goal , for not only was our finance conditional on such a journey , but also it might be the last opportunity for anyone to make this historic voyage before the Bugis ' prahus were gone for ever . |
| 26 | It was in these difficult but not unhopeful circumstances that the two leaders met again , at a reputedly haunted house in Reykjavik on 11–12 October 1986 . |
| 27 | It was in these circumstances that Western governments began to consider initiatives such as a rapid deployment force in the Gulf area and other measures designed to protect their essential interests . |
| 28 | It was in these industrial areas on the east side of the city that the damage caused by Allied bombing had been most extensive . |
| 29 | It was in these essays that he pronounced Attic tragedy , and especially the tragedy of Aeschylus , to be the complete form of art , the original Gesamtkunstwerk whose spirit must be recreated in a German context . |
| 30 | It was in these two areas ( poetry and prose narrative ) that Formalism made most of its practical contributions to the study of literature . |