Example sentences of "[vb past] was in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Pura , a village in Kamataka , Professor Amulva Reddy and his colleagues from the Indian Institute of Science found that 96 per cent of the wood that poor families burned was in the form of twigs . |
| 2 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 3 | Er all those that finished was in the finishing union , yeah . |
| 4 | The condition which the court imposed was in the very terms subsequently incorporated in paragraph 33 of Buckley J. 's order . |
| 5 | The only significant advance recorded was in the draft Rio Declaration on Environment and Development , in which Northern countries accept the principle of assisting the South to develop without destroying their environment , and Southern states agree to work towards curbing population growth . |
| 6 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
| 7 | One of the many design changes Mickie originated was in the exhaust valve , where many production batches had resulted in 100% scrap . |
| 8 | However , I was riveted by the speech of the hon. Member for Taunton ( Mr. Nicholson ) , who welcomed a measure that he thought was in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 9 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 10 | That felt was in the window last week for twelve and six and … and leghorns are always expensive . |
| 11 | A house called Les Hiboux , sited in the département of the Dordogne , which she knew was in the south-west , near a community called Issigeac . |
| 12 | It is relevant that the time at which this text appeared was in the late 1970s . |
| 13 | The first medal I ever won was in the egg and spoon race . |
| 14 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 15 | I have always looked upon you as Theo Daniel said he could not see the pain Frederica said was in the olives , and Alexander , still lecturing , said that Vincent had objected to paintings of symbolic Christs in Gethsemane by Bernard and his compères , had torn up his own , had made do with the olives themselves . |
| 16 | What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy . |
| 17 | ‘ But do you know , I think the happiest time I ever had was in the army ; though there were some funny times , real bad times . |
| 18 | The only difficulties I had was in the last 24 hours when the steering gave me problems . ’ |
| 19 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |
| 20 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 21 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 22 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 23 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |