Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] [noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | He always came when John was at school . |
| 3 | Details of this incident are not clear ; it happened when Libya was at war , and the movement of foreigners was restricted ; and a year later other more striking events had occurred which overshadowed it . |
| 4 | It rang while Elizabeth was in the field and I picked it up and someone spoke to me , but I can not speak , so I tore it from the wall and then no one could speak to me . ) |
| 5 | They met while Ralph was in the army . |
| 6 | , Henry George ( 1913–1976 ) , neurologist , was born 13 December 1913 in Chesterfield , Derbyshire , the only son of John Miller , engineer ( who died when Henry was aged four ) and his wife Mabel Isobel Bainbridge . |
| 7 | The Crown sought leave to ask R if the man he knew as F was in court . |
| 8 | Mr Goodman said if Laganside was in any doubt about the amount of sludge being dropped by the lorries a representative should be sent to watch them driving past . |
| 9 | The bank manager waited until Bissett was at the door , until he was sure of his safety . |
| 10 | That evening , she waited until Charlie was in his office and then presented herself in the doorway . |
| 11 | Dear me , a high old time of it we all had when Cormac was at Tara . |
| 12 | I wondered if Ash was into rough sex . |
| 13 | Rostov wondered if Burun was in a hurry to see them again . |