Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the occasion when they had paid a visit to St Whatever-it-was on Magdalen bridge in Oxford . |
| 2 | I reckoned it 'd have t'run' from the house to a point outside the perimeter fence , cuz that 'd take 'em clear of anyone who wuz in control of the grounds . |
| 3 | TWO of BSkyB 's senior presenters were off air last night after a spectacular bust-up . |
| 4 | Then we were off home-by taxi . |
| 5 | ‘ You said you were off home . ’ |
| 6 | Luis , it 's high time you were off watch ! |
| 7 | After we left the police station we all had to go to hospital ; we were off work for weeks . |
| 8 | I think she were off work last week . |
| 9 | Yes but usually you were off school right from the person died to the to after the funeral . |
| 10 | I keep thinking it 's were off school yesterday . |
| 11 | you know the when they were off school |
| 12 | Swindon were off colour … |
| 13 | Swindon were off colour … |
| 14 | ‘ I thought you were off food , ’ I said . |
| 15 | He had no qualms about dropping players he thought were off form , but would talk to them individually to encourage them , or if he wanted to make a point arising from their game . |
| 16 | If I may say so the key point is n't it that a lot of the transactions you discussed were off market transactions , they were unusual transactions and the Financial Institutions that were carrying out those transactions whether they were acting as banker or acting a as broker , they would have had knowledge that those transactions were not normal market transactions . |
| 17 | A few were off duty that evening . |
| 18 | And it was always sort of open house and the nurses used to come in when they were off duty a lot . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought you were off duty ? ’ murmured Dr Kent into her ear . |
| 20 | They were stationed at a poli number two police station , which was the custom house at the Ipswich docks , and they spent most of their time when they were off duty just lying on stretchers lying about , then of course evening time , when there was er more activity , course they came out and my word , if they told strikers they were not to go to this part of the town or road . |
| 21 | They were off Burnmouth by sunrise , where the rowers rested awhile , for Ramsay had bargained with the fishermen to take them onward to Dunbar , in a repetition of the previous escape . |
| 22 | And although he does reserve his party pieces for his formidable long-range free kicks , most of those were off target apart from one effort which hit a post late on . |
| 23 | Fortunately for Boro , Charlton were off target before Paul Wilkinson headed wide just before the break . |
| 24 | In autumn 1989 she asked her colleague , Annie Caubet , head of the Louvre 's Department of Oriental Antiquities , if it would be possible to mount a loan exhibition while the objects were off view . |
| 25 | After two complete runs of the 15-minute piece he looked visibly tired when asked to provide a couple of extra takes covering the few bars where orchestra members were off key . |
| 26 | outside ) ; the lowest rates were for persons charged with offences of violence . |
| 27 | The two 4,000gn bids were for Runrig , the two-year-old first prizewinner from WJ&CSR Christie of Lochdochart , Crianlarich , and the reserve supreme champion Grange Zermatt from Messrs James Biggar , Grange , Castle Douglas . |
| 28 | Furthermore , of these few results , a substantial number were for charcoal , with all the attendant problems of possible age offset due to ‘ old wood ’ ( see p. 121 ) . |
| 29 | We had to look at where the opportunities were for development in Greater York as a whole rather than looking at individual district elements , and in terms of land available , erm Mr Steel appears to have included some sites which we classify as land held in reserve , which we do n't normally count towards the land availability targets , although we do acknowledge that it is there . |
| 30 | The majority of requests were for fiction ( 47% ) or popular non-fiction ( 22% ) . |