Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been trying to prove that I was on drugs since I was fourteen . |
| 2 | It 's not something I particularly thought an awful lot of until I came on crime prevention , because before that I was in police uniform with marked cars with the radio , although half the time in Harlow , the radios do n't work cos we 're getting . |
| 3 | A widow had the shock of her life when she opened a letter from her local council and discovered that she was in arrears with her rent . |
| 4 | It is clear , then , that there was among laymen and women an interest in leading what Walter Hilton calls a " mixed life " , combining prayer and meditation with active duties . |
| 5 | The reality , said Steve ( the ballroom dancer , not the DJ ) was that everybody was in couples today . |
| 6 | Except that it was for adulterers , and murderers . |
| 7 | Rev. 31 ( 1938 ) , 205–36 ) argued plausibly that it was about experiments in induced lethargy ( as after all the title of Clearchus ' dialogue about sleep suggests ) . |
| 8 | It was D'Arcy who raised the subject of The Criterion , because he had heard that it was in difficulties . |
| 9 | Misys Plc , which said in January that it was in talks that could lead to it acquiring Burns Anderson Independent Network Plc ( CI No 2,081 ) , said yesterday that it had not been able to agree terms for the acquisition and that negotiations had therefore been terminated . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , its report , published in June 1978 , confirmed that there was serious maltreatment and that it was by persons other than the uniformed members of the RUC . |
| 11 | Indeed , in the early quarter of the twentieth century in the United States , interest in social survey research was far stronger among academics and activists in social welfare and social policy than it was among sociologists . |
| 12 | There was , for instance , Max who , as an early teenager , complained that he was without friends . |
| 13 | If she had needed further proof that he was without scruples or morals in his personal life , he had just given it to her . |
| 14 | I knew also that he was on drugs . |
| 15 | The second lieutenant disappeared inside the main building intending to call on the Commander-in-Chief — without an appointment needless to say — but realized that he was in difficulties . |
| 16 | Here Rank 's insistence that he was in films to make money , that he would n't interfere because he knew nothing about production , was challenged by his lack of vision and , eventually , his weak stomach for full-blooded costume melodrama . |
| 17 | A man like Richard Hamilton , for instance , who 's now pretty well known in this country , was much better known on the Continent of Europe and in America , in Switzerland , in Germany , in Northern Italy — Milan particularly — much better known there than he was for decades . |
| 18 | He was taking more from local butchers than he was in wages . |
| 19 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 20 | And I was at Bicktons studying for an N C A two years ago . |
| 21 | I knew that if I was with prostitutes it would be very difficult for me to get into the drug community and be accepted . ’ |
| 22 | And she was in tears as he said : ‘ All of us owe the same debt to Glenys because if there was a complete partnership , this is it . |
| 23 | Something over my son 's wedding and she was in tears |
| 24 | When it is realized that of the fifteen largest corporations in the world in 1978 , three were car manufacturers , eight were oil companies , and one was in chemicals , it can be appreciated that the largest corporations within the most concentrated sections of international capital formation are committing more than their share of law violations . |
| 25 | The judge explained to the jury that the interests of the state were those of the government of the day and it was for ministers to decide the policies of the government . |
| 26 | And it was for girls , for girls |
| 27 | As always , it 's something very small that has the longest discussion property , and it was at personnel . |
| 28 | And it was on rails that |
| 29 | Blackpool , and it was like muldoons were n't it Gordon ? |
| 30 | He did n't look like he was on drugs . |