Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | New River Company shares were worth a fortune in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | Various children , with whom both of them were very good , were about the house in profusion . |
| 3 | Overhereoverthere , well ridden by Robbie Supple , has been with Upson for six years , but his only previous successes were between the flags in Ireland . |
| 4 | Oliver gained a lot of experience in a short time , and was interested to see how brave some people were after a death in the family . |
| 5 | Although we in the UK were behind the Americans in introducing the mandatory carriage of FDRs in public transport aircraft fitted with turbine engines , we had the advantage of learning from their experience since some foreign registered aircraft of American manufacture which were fitted with FDRs crashed in the UK . |
| 6 | These situations were unlike the others in the study in that they were filmed in rural areas while the films showing junctions were generally in urban areas . |
| 7 | Turned wooden vessels were amongst the grave-goods in the ship burial of Sutton Hoo mound 1 . |
| 8 | The words were like a slap in the face . |
| 9 | To reject the mythological character of much of the Bible is to run the serious risk of looking for the truth of scripture as if it were like the kernel in the nut , and ending up with nothing but the shell . |
| 10 | Now , just over two years ago , when it was first mooted that the Rockhill site would become a permanent gipsy site , we did then erm conduct erm interviews in the town , and we interviewed something like two and a half thousand people , of which ninety five per cent said that they were against a site in that particular place . |
| 11 | The worst times I 've ever endured were with a tax-dodger in Castletown . |
| 12 | As it happened , the links he had remade were with the Magharba in Ajdabiya . |
| 13 | By then , and with a couple of non-championship wins under his belt , Emerson and the whole Lotus team knew they were onto a winner in I972 . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd put it there , looked through and could n't find it , we were in every drawer in the blooming house ! |
| 15 | Professionals were in a position in which the interventions they engaged in denied young disabled people the very control over their own lives and education they were intended to promote . |
| 16 | The house was right down at the bottom of the street , and I moved like a ghost from lamp to lamp , tiptoeing for some reason , as if I were in a jungle in dread of attracting the attention of wild animals prowling near me . |
| 17 | Yeah but we were sitting in a er we were in a cul-de-sac in a nice area |
| 18 | Mr Smith asked : ‘ Can you explain what you meant when you said you were in a minority in Lady Thatcher 's administration ? ’ |
| 19 | As a result , for the first time in the history of East Germany the Communists were in a minority in the Council of Ministers [ for initial composition see p. 37025 ; for January 1990 changes see pp. 37170-71 ] . |
| 20 | They were in a massacre in their village near Mostar and they were taken out by the Flying Tigers to Split . |
| 21 | Its wings were in a barn in Sussex . |
| 22 | We met Stevie Nicks right after that and for about the next four years we were in a band in the northern California area . |
| 23 | remember I says they were in a sale in school |
| 24 | She stood up as I entered the room , greeting me as if we were in a drawing-room in Chelsea or Gloucestershire and not in prison . |
| 25 | But we were in a dungeon in Lebanon and he was in a safe house in the Home Counties . |
| 26 | No wonder they were in a tizz in Brighton . |
| 27 | In the ILEA ( which published much more detailed statistics on special education than central government or other LEAs ) , boys were in the majority in schools and units catering for every type of special need . |
| 28 | Certainly those who were in the square in 1387 hoping to see the completion of the Duomo would have had to wait a long time , far longer than the span of a human life . |
| 29 | But er it , it , it er it appears to have been overlooked that , erm some of the directors who were in the bracket in nineteen eighty eight of two hundred and thirty thousand to two ninety five thousand have been increased from three hundred and fifty five thousand this year to a top of four hundred thousand . |
| 30 | A brief list of these phrases which were in the documents in 1121 will show their relevance : |