Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [adv] in [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly , too , I was back in wine country with terraced hillsides stretching up on both sides of the road . |
| 2 | ( Irish counties , provinces and county towns can be a bit confusing , so I 'll spell it out carefully — I was now in Galway City , county town of County Galway . |
| 3 | The Court found that the government could legitimately return assets which were now in state ownership ; however , it objected to proposals to accompany the return of confiscated lands with payment of only partial compensation to present private owners ( principally farm co-operatives ) . |
| 4 | One month later the appellant and another accomplice entered an off licence , wearing stocking masks and carrying a gun which was not in working order ; the female licencee was threatened and £65 taken from the till . |
| 5 | It was that he had had printed a leaflet , which he was taking to hotels , restaurants , shops , advertising his firm : Philip Fowler , Builder and Decorator ; that he had to get real work , soon ; that he thought he had contributed more than his share to this house , which was now in working order . |
| 6 | They are eminently collectable , and a pleasant way to remember Bristol , even if you were n't in Goldney Hall . |
| 7 | You were down in Minya Province running after that gipsy girl . ’ |
| 8 | When Muhammad Behbehanian , who was still in Morocco writing to all the Shah 's bankers , told him that he had heard Hassan wanted him out as quickly as possible to understand what had happened and why . |
| 9 | Whenever possible I try to get a Lecture Theatre , erm but I was told it was booked all day today we were originally in presentation room then came , so be grateful we 're in the Board Room . |
| 10 | In defence of Dixon 's there are DTP packages that will run on an Amstrad 5086 — Timeworks 3 for GEM for example so they were not in fact wrong . |
| 11 | Everyone was making sure that they were not in flesh contact with any of the furniture , walls or floor . |
| 12 | They were both in evening dress , as were most of the people in the very crowded foyer . |
| 13 | They sprayed the subjects with cold water when they were undoubtedly in REM sleep , and then woke them after varying intervals of a few minutes . |
| 14 | That brings to mind the fact that at that meeting , two people at least , at least two of the co-opted members asked if there was a pollution sub-committee during this year , you know , during the year that finishes in May , and I 'm afraid they were told no , because it was n't in Council Diary . |
| 15 | We cringed away from it , then realised it was n't in attack mode and let it follow . |
| 16 | The Child Poverty Action Group , in their comments on the 1975 Act when it was still in bill form , stressed the link between poverty and children being received into or committed to care , and the fact that the latter often occurred because of a lack of housing or day-care facilities . |
| 17 | And it was originally in FORTRAN source so I do n't know whether is it still in FORTRAN source ? |
| 18 | It was only in Midland Bank Plc. |
| 19 | He wanted to do his best the first time he performed , and knew he was not in peak condition . |
| 20 | Instead he was back in Sheffield Shield ranks looking to recover form by the time the fifth Test had begun . |