Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably they would have preferred the British people to be kept in the dark about the state of the royal marriage as they were about Edward 's love for Mrs Simpson . |
| 2 | At the time of Chamlong 's announcement a number of other opposition figures had launched hunger strikes in protest at Suchinda 's appointment , but none were of Chamlong 's stature . |
| 3 | St Paul had taught that the powers that be were ordained of God , and it was generally held that all power , genuinely held , was God-given , that kings were of God 's choosing . |
| 4 | They were near Barry 's house . |
| 5 | ‘ Aah 'll tell thoo what , ’ he grinned , ‘ yon owd woman were like death 's 'ead at a feast . |
| 6 | POLICE have urged party-goers who were with Cadbury 's Flake model Rachel Brown on the night she unwittingly took an Ecstasy tablet to come forward . |
| 7 | The only consultations now were with Beckman 's market research consultancy over anodyne questions of marketing . |
| 8 | They were in Court 's drawing room . |
| 9 | All but one of the letters were in Arabella 's handwriting . |
| 10 | We were in Brown 's Hotel . |
| 11 | If she were in Amy 's position , how much would it matter ? |
| 12 | Once the three of us were in Eva 's car in the High Street and Dad started to cry in the back . |
| 13 | But when it comes to diet , we are probably as badly off if not worse than people were in Hahnemann 's day . |
| 14 | ‘ You were in Mait 's house ? ’ |
| 15 | The two were in Ralph 's team and were never to split up . |
| 16 | Even rarer treasures , such as a pair of early A- and B-model Mustangs , a Commonwealth Boomerang , Hawker Tempest II and a SPAD VII were in Weeks ' storage and restoration facility at Tamiami , which was also destroyed . |
| 17 | The two women were in Kevin 's room , where Nellie had found her mother when she and Liam arrived in the cart after last Mass in Rosstrevor . |
| 18 | The finely detailed bas-relief ornaments are applied by hand today , as they were in Josiah 's day . |
| 19 | In fact , we 're more profitable now than we were in Andrew 's day , because of that new trade with West Africa I 've worked up . " |
| 20 | ‘ Were you going out ? ’ inquired Miss Coldharbour with her customary detachment , as though it were in Julia 's power to determine her hours of work . |
| 21 | The hedgehog and vole went into the tunnel together and when they came out they were in Sergeant 's garden . |
| 22 | Last year we were going to er a show at er and I was doing a modern arrangement and er , we were in Norman 's van . |
| 23 | Margaret and Maura were in Maura 's bedroom , painting their nails . |
| 24 | Willie Marchant had brought two letters , one from the office obviously and one which looked as though it were from Dorothy 's brother , Ray . |
| 25 | A further six cultures were positive for M avium subsp silvaticum , of which two each were from Crohn 's disease , ulcerative colitis , and non-inflammatory bowel disease controls . |
| 26 | All 10 cultures were from mucosal biopsies ; three cultures were from Crohn 's disease tissues , four were from ulcerative colitis tissues , and three non-inflammatory bowel disease tissues . |
| 27 | Six of these positive cultures were from Crohn 's disease patients , five of them originating from surgically resected tissue . |
| 28 | He thought back to the moment when he and Sophie were inside Singer 's flat : the bed littered with clothes hangers , the dim light , the stale air . |
| 29 | The amassing of information , reflection , discussion and analysis which form the necessary seedbed of policy , were outside Wheeler 's purview . |
| 30 | One college , New Inn Hall , completely emptied during the war , because erm they were on parliament 's side . |