Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] in the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MY WIFE and I were walking in the Lake District when I slipped and fell . |
| 2 | ‘ I was born in the Rhondda valley , at a little place called Treorky — and the name 's Pritchard , Huw Pritchard . ’ |
| 3 | Before I got married I was living in the London Palace and there was something like three hundred and sixty girls there . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd just finished editing The Dairy Book of Home Management , which eventually sold 1.5m copies , and I was living in the Kings Road . ’ |
| 5 | I was pushed in the Bradford TEC 's direction by the local Chamber of Commerce . |
| 6 | The media commentary on this first Report concentrated on this exclusion , and I was pilloried in the Sunday Times for blacklisting Enid Blyton 's Noddy . |
| 7 | In May I was playing in the FA Cup final against Liverpool . |
| 8 | This fact reminds me of a tale I was told in the States recently whereby President Clinton and his wife Hilary and Major Kay drove into a garage , quite why this was necessary the tale does not relate , as the petrol or gas attendant began to fill up the limousine , Hilary Clinton leaped out of the car and became involved in an animated conversation with the petrol attendant . |
| 9 | ‘ I was working in the BBC pensions department and had short-lived aspirations of getting into TV . |
| 10 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 11 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 12 | The Soviet Union acquired and developed a structure of ground and air installations in Eastern Europe which were integrated in the Warsaw Pact . |
| 13 | The pledges about post-war economic policy which were extracted from the government before Beveridge were due to the United States and the importance it attached to statements of economic war aims , which were incorporated in the Atlantic Charter and the Mutual Aid Agreement between the two countries . |
| 14 | Within boxes , the forms were not kept in order , and so for this reason the search was carried out by inspecting the thesis titles , as well as by searching for individual ‘ D ’ numbers ( which were recorded in the Rolfe and Will lists ) . |
| 15 | During the reign of Charles I there was a great flood of emigrants to North America and the West Indies , and a third type of colony appeared in addition to the colonies for English settlement and the trading posts which needed political power to function effectively : the colonies which were emerging in the West Indies were beginning to turn into plantations in the modern sense in which Englishmen directed the labour of other people . |
| 16 | In table 9.8 are shown some examples of the changes in unit costs which were used in the GRE formulae over the short period from 1983/4 to 1986/7 . |
| 17 | FRCN Kaduna 's Hausa current affairs programme Alkawari Kayane had reports directly from its own correspondent in Minna which were carried in the FRCN programme being relayed there by Radio Niger . |
| 18 | At Documenta IX , Angela Grauerholz showed a fascinating dialogue between her painterly photographs and paintings of the nineteenth century , which were juxtaposed in the Neue Galerie at Kassel . |
| 19 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |
| 20 | Two programmes that attracted particular attention were the Minnesota smoking prevention programme , which was developed in the United States in the early 1980s , and the family smoking education project , which was developed in Norway as part of a comprehensive five year research programme examining smoking among Norwegian schoolchildren . |
| 21 | Then , in Sunday 's second round , which was incorporated in the Basingstoke M.C. Club 's March Hare trial near Newbury , Dismore bounced back with a win . |
| 22 | One of his largest commissions was the Boer war memorial in Pietermaritzburg , a composition in marble and bronze surmounted by a winged figure , and he produced , among others , statues of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra , the equestrian statues of the maharajah , Sir Chandra Shamshere Yung , for Nepal and the first Earl Haig [ q.v. ] for the esplanade outside Edinburgh Castle , and a children 's fountain for the Women 's World Temperance Association , a replica of which was placed in the Temple Gardens , London . |
| 23 | On May 25 the GCC Secretary-General , Abdullah Bishara , had said that the proposal for joint Gulf defence arrangements , to include also Egypt and Syria , which was formulated in the Damascus Declaration of March 1991 [ see pp. 38116-17 ] was still under study by GCC committees . |
| 24 | Directly above the village rises the peak of the Schilthorn mountain which was featured in the James Bond film ‘ On Her Majesty 's Secret Service ’ . |
| 25 | They then issued a public statement , which was published in the March edition of The Presbytery Bulletin , the Orkney churches ' informal news-sheet . |
| 26 | The writ , which was issued in the Victoria Supreme Court by Linter 's liquidator , KPMG Peat Marwick , names PW , two former Linter directors , Elders Finance and Investment Company and Elders Finance Group . |
| 27 | Mr. Frank Shaw , left , receiving IBOA cheque £900 on behalf of Pensioners ' and Widows ' Association , Western Region from Mr. Pat O'C Hegarty at the Annual Dinner which was held in the Banba Hotel , Salthill on 26th March . |
| 28 | On Saturday the 17th of August we attended the Great British Beer Festival which was held in the Docklands Arena , London . |
| 29 | President Rakhmon Nabiyev , however , did not attend the signing ceremony , which was held in the Badakhshan Autonomous Republic in Tajikistan ( formerly the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous oblast or region ) . |
| 30 | The premise for the development of Ruby — which was launched in the US last month under the brand name Stellar ( the name may not be used outside America ) — was simple enough . |