Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 2 | It is simply that I was brought up in the East of Scotland and have lived in places whither the Orangemen walketh not , neither in triumph nor provocation . |
| 3 | I was brought up in the world of the arts because , apart from the Rothschild side which had some influence on me , my mother was a completely Bloomsbury figure , and her mother was a great friend of Matisse and a distinguished collector — she was a Strachey , very English . |
| 4 | As a male Caucasian with a father who had died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 59 , I was brought up in the smoky atmosphere of a northern industrial town . |
| 5 | Like most people , I was brought up in the belief that a nightmare was something bad that happened while you were asleep . |
| 6 | And it it was , I mean I was brought up in the country and it , I found it really shocking that people had to live like that , you know . |
| 7 | I was brought up in the country , on a farm you know , so I 'll try and sort of make you know equal amount of flowers in each , and then er it can be halved . |
| 8 | ‘ I was brought up in the countryside . |
| 9 | I was brought up in the cloister , and have Latin and French as well as English and Welsh . ’ |
| 10 | I was brought up in the days of the old Police Acts . |
| 11 | It was an unfortunate evening for me : I was knocked out in the second round , the only time I was knocked out , either at Eton or at Oxford . |
| 12 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 13 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 14 | When I was tipped back in the dentist 's chair |
| 15 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 16 | So I was laid out in the back of the van on the bed and he 's driving down this field to put the tent , because it had little er bits you know where it 's marked out for you to camp , and I 'm driving around in the back saying , yes you 've , you 've just missed the fence there and you know . |
| 17 | I was caught up in the Truby King Mothercraft doctrine of 1935 … |
| 18 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 19 | I was woken up in the night sometimes , the spare bed in my room being made up for someone they 'd met down the Club , the other lodger 's room already occupied . |
| 20 | A 184 year old cedar tree which was blown down in the January storms was the focus of an enterprising initiative in April at Claremont Landscape Garden , Surrey . |
| 21 | The second mechanism for controlling managerial power which was singled out in the legal model was the fiduciary duties imposed upon the directors and officers of the company . |
| 22 | ‘ You live in … in that house ? ’ he asked , surprised , pointing to Thornfield Hall , which was lit up in the moonlight . |
| 23 | He was later seen getting into a silver metallic car which was driven off in the direction of Cheyney Road . |
| 24 | About 1,500 rebels were thought to have taken part in the assault which was carried out in the face of sustained bombing from the Air Force . |
| 25 | Bric-a-brac was donated and sold on the stall which was set up in the factory canteen . |
| 26 | The future of Lothar and his supporters was settled when Louis met them at Blois in September : The emperor sat in his pavilion which was set up in the middle of a wide field on a hill where the whole army could see him , and his faithful sons [ Pippin and Louis ] stood beside him . |
| 27 | Darlington Wildlife Trust is the latest branch of the Durham trust , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 28 | Ms Ela Robinson , who is in charge of the nursery class at Richmond CE School , is chairman of the National Campaign for Nursery Education , which was set up in the Sixties . |
| 29 | Priscilla Savage remembers her mother telling her that she was placed down in the shade between two bundles of corn in an angle of the harvest field , and she was fed during the brief intervals her mother won from the gavelling . |
| 30 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |