Example sentences of "[was/were] in the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they were in the woods Tess turned to look at the house . |
| 2 | The celebrations of selflessness and sacrifice are much as they were in the wartime films , but this time there seems little point in asserting them , nothing to be argued for . |
| 3 | You were in the Grenadier Guards ? |
| 4 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 5 | Well now , because we were in the Ipswich Borough Police , we were in the fortunate position of knowing that we would serve our full thirty years in Ipswich , which enabled us to buy our own houses through building society . |
| 6 | Tom confirmed our assumption that we were in the Beka'a Valley saying that Carton , an Arabic speaker , told him that some of the food wrappers had Baalbek addresses on them . |
| 7 | Er but er and , and the they negotiated er a payment er for working in these er cold conditions for the men who were in the machine shop . |
| 8 | On these cassettes you will hear the voice of the hypnotherapist , who will help you to achieve the desired state , then give you the same suggestions that he or she would make if you were in the consulting room ; finally , the hypnotherapist will wake you up again . |
| 9 | Eight of nine cases of failed papillary cannulation were in the octreotide group , and patients in the octreotide group tended to have fewer ‘ easy ’ as well as more ‘ difficult ’ cannulations of the bile and pancreatic ducts ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Surely , you were in the Girl Guides . ’ |
| 11 | And and not really even a living room for the owners cos they were in the bed chamber . |
| 12 | I was n't exactly selling drugs to teenagers : most of my friends were in the music business in London , and you ca n't find a business which goes more hand in hand with it . |
| 13 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 14 | Serum samples for measurement of bismuth were collected from 46 patients of whom 25 were in the bismuth group ; only those from the bismuth group were analysed at the end of the study . |
| 15 | It costs eighty five p , and you can get it from any of the H M S O — Her Majesty 's Stationery Office — or you could order it , I should think , from most bookshops , and that 'll give you a pretty good overview of what Warnock is trying to do , and then , of course if anybody 's interested enough in comparing that with the Act , you 'll see the kind of things that were in the Warnock Report have n't actually come through in the act . |
| 16 | The fatalities were in the London area and involved collapses . |
| 17 | At any one time , some 200,000 people were in the ET programme . |
| 18 | I heard that you were in the West Indies . |
| 19 | A few of the divisions were in the battalion phase of training and marksmanship had shown a level of attainment second only to the United States . |
| 20 | Twelve of the boreholes were on the areas of the Coventry , Grantham , Shaftesbury and Witney map sheets ; the remaining eight were in the Bedford area , in connection with the Fuller 's Earth project . |
| 21 | Seventeen were in the building trade ; mostly in skilled trades such as mason , painter or bricklayer . |
| 22 | They were in the south aisle of the Cathedral nave , not too far from the great west door . |
| 23 | ‘ They then took them across the pedestrian bridge over the Westlink and , to calm them down , told them they were in the university area . |
| 24 | Erm , some of you are very critical of , of , of the Penguin operation when you were in the U S A but I have to tell you , they did achieve record sales there last year and increased market share and in fact the children 's er , book publishing was twenty percent ahead of the year before . |
| 25 | But er a flannel shirt and mole skins but er er That was while you were in the pit bottom you see ? |
| 26 | they have a lot of clout , a lot of clout , erm , we were in the gold souk |
| 27 | In 1984 almost 90 per cent of the 4.9 million part-time workers in Britain were in the service sector , and the overwhelming majority of those jobs were occupied by women ( Robinson , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | My assistant Joanne Barker was talking on her phone and two more colleagues were in the back seat on their phones . |
| 29 | On the way home , Frank was driving and Harry and I were in the back seat , and Harry put his arm round me . |
| 30 | Traces of explosives were found on the clothing of the three accused , two of whom were in the back seat of the vehicle and one in the front passenger seat . |