Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I was looking at trees in er B and Q |
| 2 | Well I 've lived in quite a few places , I 've , I say , before I came here , I was at mother and baby Home , and before that I was living with friends in Liverpool , and before that I was in Nottingham at a bed and breakfast place , lodgings , and er |
| 3 | And then erm I was at home for a while , and then I was living with friends in Birmingham , and in , in between time I 've been to Leeds and London . |
| 4 | I knew Derek really enjoyed our trips and was only kidding , but I was thinking of ways in which I could raise more money to pay my share . |
| 5 | Even when I was coaching the national team in New Zealand I was coaching at clubs in Christchurch . |
| 6 | I was travelling with camels in hot , arid country under testing conditions where , if things went wrong , I could get no help and where men 's lives depended on my judgement . |
| 7 | They interviewed parents , specialist professionals and mainstream day-care workers and they designed a questionnaire which was completed by workers in a large proportion of mainstream council services and voluntary organisations , as well as by some child-minders . |
| 8 | The " gilt only " scheme , which was advocated by workers in the United States , consists essentially of using only gilts for breeding . |
| 9 | Subsequently , in the 1970s this approach was also addressed by M.A. Carson in The Mechanics of Erosion ( Carson , 1971 ) in a book which provided a unified introduction to the mechanics of erosional processes and which was aimed at undergraduates in earth science . |
| 10 | Don ‘ t be a soft target will complement the Pushover video which was distributed to branches in November 1988 . |
| 11 | The Dalai Lama sent a message of encouragement to the democratic movement in China , which was suppressed with tanks in Tiananmen Square . |
| 12 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |
| 13 | The pear-shaped ‘ image of the Holy Mother of God ’ , which was held by women in labour , is expected to be sold for around £1 500 on November 24 . |
| 14 | She was thinking of houseboys in a saffron uniform she 'd design herself . |
| 15 | There , alongside Elsie Oakensen , an amiably ordinary grandmother who told how she was snatched by aliens in Northamptonshire in 1978 , a group of bone fide fruitcakes from the Aetherius Society ( who believe that Jesus and Buddha came to Earth in flying saucers from Venus ) , turned up and did their party turn . |
| 16 | Doreen realised she was going about matters in entirely the wrong way . |
| 17 | She was venerated by women in a feast named Matronalia , and the month of June — once called Junonius — was considered most auspicious for weddings . |
| 18 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 19 | She was arrested by police in Cairo , Egypt . |
| 20 | Her father was an eccentric , outspoken critic of the government , who was killed by police in 1985 . |
| 21 | Amphetamine powder was found in a car containing five youths including Wilson , the driver , who was stopped by police in Middlesbrough last May . |
| 22 | AN 80-year-old woman who was battered by robbers in her home was making steady recovery at a Countess of Chester Hospital yesterday . |
| 23 | Israeli and world leaders paid tribute to Begin who was buried alongside fellow-fighters in the Irgun Zva'i Leumi , the Jewish guerrilla group he commanded in the 1940s . |
| 24 | A street kid who was attacked by police in Guatemala City , who later died from the injuries he received |
| 25 | Only the façade is worth looking at : like so many other houses , this one was turned into flats in the 19C . |
| 26 | All the traffic , every single vehicle which passed him was equipped with lasers in its axles ; they could register a hit on his legs unless he was above them , or shielded by a wall , or between the wheels of a parked car , or holding his breath . |
| 27 | Graham Connah 's excavations in 1964 , for the Department of Antiquities , revealed that tin-bronze was available in 13th-century Benin where it was cast into ingots in open moulds before being smithed into bracelets . |
| 28 | It was destroyed by vandals in August 1980 . |
| 29 | That 's the number of lucky motorists the Wolfsburg manufacturer has equipped with the Golf G60 Limited , a car that was the subject of over 1000 enquiries when it was announced to dealers in Germany last year but only had a production run of 70 . |
| 30 | ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots . |