Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 2 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 4 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 5 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 6 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 7 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 8 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 9 | Er l After I finished my apprenticeship I was in a union . |
| 10 | During the first two months I was on a King 's Kids Outreach Tour . |
| 11 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 12 | If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office . |
| 13 | And Alvar Fañez at this time issued out from ambush , and fell upon them , on the side which was nearest the sea ; and the Moors thought that a great power had arrived to the Cid 's succour , and they were dismayed , and began to fly . |
| 14 | She pointed to a vacant seat which was at the end of a row near the gangway . |
| 15 | That 's how we did our first album which was on the Decca label called ‘ David Bowie' . |
| 16 | The first hurdle to be overcome was the development of a joint US/New Zealand resolution which would meet not only the concerns of the South Pacific nations which were at the forefront of the initiative , but also would not alienate the US , whose powerful political muscle would be required to gain the necessary support . |
| 17 | Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence . |
| 18 | The books which were in the house were of another kind and pursued a different and more old-fashioned simplification ; some of them were indeed Victorian in fact as well as in tone , relics of her grandmother 's childhood . |
| 19 | Help of a more immediately practical nature was given to Manan , a young pianist who was without a piano . |
| 20 | Cabezon was certainly in England with his master , Philip of Spain , for more than a year during 1554–5 when it is improbable that he was not known to Blitheman who was in the service of Mary I. Perhaps also a copy of his belatedly published Obras de musica ( 1578 ) found its way to England , offering models of song variation . |
| 21 | They say officers did n't call a vital witness who was in the room where Wiltshire was stabbed . |
| 22 | Tell granddad who was in the house yesterday morning when we woke up can you remember ? |
| 23 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 24 | I have seen in my own area where wee lads who were on the border line of going one way or another regarding life in Northern Ireland , ending up getting jobs and doing great for a year and at the end of the year just thrown back onto the dole and people have lost interest in them again . |
| 25 | Around Preston and East Linton there were by the middle of the nineteenth century seven watermills : in the whole of East Lothian the total in 1854 was recorded as 73 . |
| 26 | You remember all the talk there was at the time , Arthur ? " |
| 27 | Evolutionary pressures would have gone to work on whatever genetic variability there was in the ability to make the relevant cross-modal associations underlying linguistic competence . |
| 28 | Somebody did n't even know how many months there were in the year ! |
| 29 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 30 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |