Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [prep] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	No I can remember we were in a on the cliffs as well .
2	When me and Frank were in the in Lo in London we got about fifty of these bloody E mail catalogue come in the same address .
3	Now would you , I think it must be right that you were at the at five fifteen in the morning conducted by Sergeant .
4	That was for the for the men to have a drink if they want one .
5	Well I mean , I told them at the time I was against the of a sixteen month deal .
6	And er , keep the lemons and things in it , and then , the freezer is just for and when there was like a of stuff at Christmas , they put stuff in it from downstairs ,
7	And guess who was in the on the big horse and just went slow ?
8	But er where he was he was in the in the bottom of a grave digging a grave .
9	There 's everybody , er , er Kathy was in an up roar .
10	The sitting room was on a at the stage .
11	They predicted that when a subject 's attention was on the actor a situation would be described using an active , whereas when attention was on the acted-upon ( the recipient of action ) , greater use would be made of the passive .
12	And Galashiels being placed where it was on the between four counties , th you had Berwickshire , Peebleshire , Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire all having a part .
13	But it 's on a hill in the , in the , in the , it 's a long way down from there to walk and , and if I remember rightly it was on the outside of the hotel , on a bank and that to me means that erm if we had had some weather , which we had at that time , then the roots could have suffered but the other clue I think is that erm it comes into leaf first and it drops its leaves first in the autumn so maybe it 's a different tree than the other , different variety , because there are several horse chestnuts are n't there ?
14	No , Nick was on the outside of the were n't you ?
15	Which was at the at the time .

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