Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also expected support from Russia , but the tsar was too preoccupied with the affairs of Europe , where Napoleon was at the height of his powers , and Adam Czartoryski , the Russian foreign minister , advised negotiations with the Turks , rather than war . |
| 2 | which was wrong , Valerie was over the moon really that she got engaged to this fellow , but he was much older than er Michelle and I , and er he did n't want to settle down |
| 3 | Wally was in the band a couple of years . |
| 4 | Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites . |
| 5 | This is not unnatural , as in the 1970s and early 1980s Spencer was at the Queen 's University , Belfast , and an active member of the All Children Together Movement . |
| 6 | Boro recalled full back Curtis Fleming for the injured Gary Parkinson and Falconer was in the squad for the first time since suffering a knee injury in the Rumbelows Cup first round against Bournemouth in September . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ Neil was on the back but he ca n't tell us much about it yet . |
| 8 | Well er , she said they had this This is Your Life on and Neil was in the room in the lounge like and he 'd sort of been half watching it and then he said urgh mum ! |
| 9 | Mo was on the defensive here . |
| 10 | She rushed indoors , using her choicest language , not realising that Erica was in the orchard . |
| 11 | The powder was a pretty strong absorbent mixture and I felt sure it would do the trick , but a week later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 12 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 13 | The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) reported in mid-February that Kurdistan was on the point of collapse and that hundreds of thousands of people were facing starvation as a result of the Iraqi blockade and the cutting of supply lines to Iran by snow and to Turkey by a lorry strike . |
| 14 | When it came to cooking the books , Dennis was in the Raymond Blanc class . |
| 15 | Just before we left , while Dennis was in the loo , I grabbed his wife and kissed her on the mouth . |
| 16 | Donna was on the telephone . |
| 17 | She was stood in the wings refilling the whisky decanter , picturing herself seated at a concert grand on the platform of the Philharmonic Hall — Meredith was in the front row gazing up at her with adoration — when three men walking one behind the other filed through the pass-door into the auditorium . |
| 18 | Not less important , Kunaev was at the centre of an elaborate network of patronage and corruption which was clearly threatened by the imposition of an ethnic and political outsider . |
| 19 | Portadown itself lay in the parish of Drumcree and the little suburb of Edenderry was in the parish of Seagoe . |
| 20 | Barr was at the CIA from 1973 to 1977 when Bush himself was director , and served on the White House domestic policy staff when Bush was Vice-President . |
| 21 | Nokia was at the Imagination Gallery off Tottenham Court Road . |
| 22 | Graham Hill was on the wane — though he raced until I975 when he was killed in a plane crash , he scored only 11 points in the seventies . |
| 23 | Among the Best Actor losers , Dustin was in the prestigious company of Paul Newman ( Cool Hand Luke ) , Warren Beatty ( Bonnie and Clyde ) . |
| 24 | One afternoon , when Aunt Lilian was lying down , I told Aunt Kit that Richard was on the ‘ other side ’ over Suez and that I had decided to leave him . |
| 25 | In 1244–5 Richard was in the marches of Wales , and received another blow when Richard de Clare , sixth Earl of Gloucester , lord of Glamorgan , had him arrested and confiscated his Glamorgan estates , on the grounds that Richard had sided with a Welsh magnate of the area against the earl . |
| 26 | Creed was inside the house for almost an hour and when he emerged on the steps it was n't Sir Charles who was with him , but Sir Charles 's wife . |
| 27 | A sort of bovine preoccupation enveloped me when Rebecca was on the way . |
| 28 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 29 | One of the main initial bases of the White armies under General Kornilov was on the lower Don river with Kaledin , Ataman of the Don Cossacks . |
| 30 | Hector was behind the door , as if he 'd been hiding there , painfully thin , still unshaven , a stained rag over his eyes . |