Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 2 | No person in a position of power was ever to be trusted , especially if he or she was on your side . |
| 3 | Either it was passionate lust , or she was considering pouring her Perrier full of ice cubes down the front of his trousers . |
| 4 | Having observed his or her own former situation by means of regression , the patent will then during the course of a counselling session have the opportunity to discuss what happened ( something that may never have been done before ) , to express anger at the perpetrator and possibly at others who may have guessed what was going on but perhaps did nothing to prevent it , and to understand that he or she was in no way to blame for what occurred . |
| 5 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 6 | It is also helpful to know that he or she was by no means alone and that many others suffered in the same way . |
| 7 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 8 | Or it was until last Friday , when British Coal locked the gates of Parkside for the last time , and over 700 men were made redundant . |
| 9 | It was like falling into a black well , where you knew there would never be light , or it was like being cast adrift on a night ocean when you knew no ships would ever pass . |
| 10 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 11 | Either this date is wrong , and he died later , or Carham was in 1016 or earlier , or it was in 1018 and the Historia Regum is mistaken about Uhtred 's presence there . |
| 12 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 13 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
| 14 | When Mr. Gussman arrived in Alton some two and a half years ago , there was a question mark over whether or nor it was worth making him chaplain of the hospital . |
| 15 | However , there was an entrance fee and I was beyond the stage of paying those so I decided to try and shelter somewhere else . |
| 16 | My jacket was torn too , at the lapel and at the vent , and I was minus a shoe . |
| 17 | I was er four I left the school at fourteen years of age and I was down the pit the following day . |
| 18 | When my youngest brother was born and I was between eight and nine years old , my troubles began in earnest . |
| 19 | It 's of course always privilege to play over there and I was over there with a national team a few times , it 's a big occasion for the players , for the managers and for the big tournaments too . |
| 20 | At one o'clock , without warning , the wind dropped , dust settled , and I was under a pleasant sky . |
| 21 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 22 | and I was outside the door . |
| 23 | Ahmed liked to be laughed at , but he was a peasant and Nour was , in his own estimation , a prince and I was of an English generation which would have felt free to laugh at the Grand Turk if it had been so inclined . |
| 24 | Now that my machine seems to be working tolerably well again , here is some news , along with renewed thanks for the welcome and lovely meals whilst I was with you — and I was of course interested and glad to meet and to know they would come and try and help with anything if you ring them . |
| 25 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 26 | It was an affliction rather than a gift , and I was to be healed of it two years later by what I believe was the power of Christ . |
| 27 | They informed me that my Mom had been taken into hospital and I was to be taken into care until she recovered . |
| 28 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 29 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |
| 30 | And I was with them , with the Greats . |