Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes but usually you were off school right from the person died to the to after the funeral . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | PEAS capital gains tax savings were of value only to those whose capital gains had in the given year exceeded the free allowance — not a predicament in which the average punter found himself . |
| 4 | Claire is Anne 's sister , so I suppose we were with family even at some remove ( ie Val 's cousin 's wife 's sister ! ) . |
| 5 | Many of How 's clients were in court today for what they 'd hoped would be the final day of a complex five week trial . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , they were in London just before mid-day , following White Cross Street through Cricklegate . |
| 7 | ‘ But I think that people were in contact all over the world , and that that there are hints of contact with Easter Island and with the Indus Valley , ’ Mr Savoy continued , warming to his controversial theme in a way which unsettles his academic admirers . |
| 8 | These salt ways certainly seem to have been used to transport salt from Droitwich in late-Saxon times and even later , but there can be little doubt that they were in existence long before then . |
| 9 | We had Eclair and the instructions were in English apart from the opening remarks about opening doors and so on . |
| 10 | Yes , because of , we were in school together in Dutch and on the way home we were with Dutch friends , so we then , and we mostly spoke Dutch and now , since I , so it 's nearly , since now seven years have been , since I have gone to States , first year in eighty three , came back in eighty four , and since then we 've never , ever spoke Dutch . |
| 11 | She 's been having an affair with Theo Sykes , and it turns out they were in Paris together at the time Puddephat was murdered . |
| 12 | They were in bed together at the time , staring sadly at the ceiling . |
| 13 | And even when the other ship tried to follow is into Flicker , so that both of is were in sub-light together for a millisecond , Posi had only glimpsed it . |
| 14 | There is no reason to suppose that these beautifully caparisoned vessels were in use only round the coast of Thera ; they were probably not intended for long voyages on the open sea , but we can imagine that very similar passenger ships plied round the coasts of Crete , gliding elegantly from bay to bay . |
| 15 | Three of them — the foreigners , Fritz had heard — were in Strelsau now with Duke Michael . |
| 16 | Thus such monarchs were in fact profoundly in touch with reality . |
| 17 | On the assumption that neither Hezarfen on the one hand nor Ali and Kocu Bey on the other is simply in error , one can perhaps reconcile these two apparently contradictory statements on the grounds either that it was only in the technical matter of the that Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa continued to be regarded as 300-akce kadiliks , their holders actually being given 500 akce a day ; or that , while still being paid only 300 akce a day , they had come to be regarded as 500-akce mevleviyets from the hierarchical point of view , for the obvious reason that they were in fact higher in rank than any of the other kadiliks . |
| 18 | Also , they come of a class of person frequently on the move from household to household so a great deal of time was wasted by officials seeking to interview relatives who were in fact temporarily with other members of the family in another part of the country , where , of course , the authority I am representing has no jurisdiction . |
| 19 | Casualties among some batteries were in fact often at least as high as among the infantry . |
| 20 | He was serving on the battleship HMS Agincourt during the Battle of Jutland and related how they were in line astern to The Queen Mary and , when the latter was hit in the magazine and blew up , they sailed over the spot without feeling a thing . |
| 21 | It was held that the sellers were in breach both of the condition that they had the right to sell the goods and also of the warranty of quiet possession . |
| 22 | Congressional deputies from Brazil , Colombia , Costa Rica , Cuba , Ecuador , Mexico , Panama and Peru , who ( together with the United States ) were in Quito primarily for the third inter-parliamentary meeting on money laundering , agreed on Feb. 19 to form a Latin American Inter-Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Drug Abuse ( Grilapad ) . |
| 23 | Representatives of the NFL were in Glasgow yesterday for a coaching clinic and were impressed by the extent of the interest shown in the sport . |
| 24 | Food groups Northern Foods and Argyll were in demand ahead of results next week . |
| 25 | The development officers were in post well before the date on which they began to take referrals . |
| 26 | ENGLAND were in trouble again in Madras yesterday as their second Test hopes dwindled , with Sachin Tendulkar 's teenage genius , plus important knocks from both Praveen Amre and Kapil Dev , rubbing salt into their wounds . |
| 27 | DELEGATES from across the region were in Darlington yesterday at a seminar tackling social and health issues associated with dogs . |
| 28 | Half the visitors were from societies all over the North but the other half were people who came out of interest and curiosity . ’ |
| 29 | If George Wigg 's political hatreds extended to George Brown and Richard Crossman , then they were to surface intensely with regard to the Profumo affair . |
| 30 | Party members were to reregister voluntarily in the new party . |