Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes .
2 That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time …
3 Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code .
4 She then went onto Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband .
5 Mr Loveitt ignored Jess who remained where she was by the wall .
6 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 .
7 Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen .
8 He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry .
9 They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills .
10 I had to know exactly where he was in the room .
11 He had n't got where he was in the world without knowing how to get what he wanted , and he appeared to want her .
12 It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop .
13 To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King .
14 Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) .
15 Chesarynth did n't miss the impersonal attentions of the technician and the nurse , but the magic box stayed firmly where it was in the suite in the house on the ‘ dark ’ side of the moon .
16 Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers .
17 I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand .
18 A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo .
19 When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things .
20 I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ?
21 Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place .
22 He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each .
23 The devil of it was the vehicle was a left-hand drive , so that I was on the side that would go over the edge first .
24 These were er built in between the th that long period that I was on the council .
25 Calling in at Lowestoft I found to my surprise that I was on the promotion list and viewed the prospect with mixed feelings as at the time this meant that I would no longer be eligible to crew on the cutters .
26 Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list .
27 Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing .
28 When I just felt that I was on the absolute fringe of going berserk .
29 Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano .
30 er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't
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