Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [conj] [pers pn] were " in BNC.

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1 We started off just looking for a few cuddly toys and a few pounds to send them across to the folk in Roumania because we were all very touched by the need of the children there .
2 This girl we know was in Germany and they were doing a PA and she ran up to Richard Fm and said ‘ I 've come all the way from England to see you ’ — which was a complete lie — and she said , ‘ Can I have a signed photo ? ’
3 and so we had our own homes , for the boys in Brighton when they were older and the girls at Hastings .
4 Contrastingly , on the final day the journalistic gathering were honoured by a visit from General Zahid Ali Akbar , who made it clear that Mike Gatting would be welcome back in Pakistan if he were chosen for England 's next tour there .
5 Besides Pamela Chrimes , Nadia Nerina had been one of the company 's early members ; John had known her briefly in Johannesburg when they were both schoolchildren , and they met again in Cape Town just before she left for Britain in October 1945 .
6 Shanti and Chris discovered in February that they were expecting a baby , There was tremendous excitement and we all began to look forward to this addition to the family .
7 Druk 's position had looked precarious since President Mircea ( Mircha ) Snegur had complained in February that they were unable to work together [ see p. 38015 ] .
8 You know , the number and I mean has n't been able to get round to buying space in the T T G and Travel Weekly until the first two weeks in February cos we were so late in informing him I must had this conversation has taken away the brochure so there 's not a copy here but we 'll try and get hold of some as soon as possible but I mean they 're mainly for Glasgow but had been been up there from R and D y'know and she said that the people up there did n't seem to know the slightest thing about interline how to deal with interline tickets and agency tickets and all that sort of business .
9 ‘ Why do you think I insisted on your staying on here in Denmark when you were hell-bent on leaving ?
10 So if you were unemployed in Mississippi and you were black , you had trouble getting the fifty dollars to start with but that was all you 'd get , but if you went to New York you get five hundred dollars , so what would you do ?
11 The crew , an integral part of Hurworth village life , had to abandon a charity run from Rosyth in Scotland after they were ordered to the Gulf .
12 We were bounced into it quickly because there was such a fuss about rates in Scotland and we were bounced without thinking because of the political fuss . ’
13 The question that most of today 's youngsters seem to ask is What was life like in Orkney when you were my age ?
14 They had some nice thick ones in Peacocks but they were seventeen pound well sixteen ninety five
15 Mrs Healy said that she heard the girls were running and laughing like they had done in Knockglen and they were hit by a car .
16 Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations .
17 Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here .
18 But it is a , it was n't a , it was n't in ordinary auction what is was , somebody had died in Nantwich and they were doing selling the contents the of her house
19 How many slate shippers were there in in PorthMadog when you were in the office , was there another shipper ?
20 They were arrested three weeks later in Liverpool when they were again seen to remove the cash box from a kiosk .
21 Maybe it was going to be like the Cultural Revolution in China and we were all going to be given the chance to team up with the aliens .
22 Though 45 stunt people were employed in Batman and they were heavily used in the final rooftop battle , it is a dummy that takes the Joker 's final long fall from the roof of Gotham City cathedral , possibly enhanced by a rotoscope artist who put in the diminishing image frame by frame .
23 Everything was perfect in Delhi when they were ruling .
24 They decided to study a group of workers in Luton because they were known to have high incomes .
25 In , In Holland when we were there motor cars were not allowed on the roads !
26 First of all , David did some recording in July — he recorded most of the ‘ Young Americans ’ album — and then there was a break in California and we were going to restart the tour in Los Angeles .
27 ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day .
28 And then I did n't see her again until about nine years ago , when I was living in America and we were introduced again .
29 I 'm sure they 're the nicest guys in the world , but I was at the MTV awards in America when they were trying to do a soundcheck , and they could n't do a song because their tapes were n't working .
30 The point is that Carter USM are in the same position in America as they were in Britain two years ago , constantly gigging and doing pithy radio plugs to make their mark .
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