Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | while I was away at Art School . |
| 2 | I was up at Sea House one night , looking in through the window — " |
| 3 | And so er it it was a a reasonably good wage but when I first started of course I was n't on piece rate , you used to get a penny an hour , when we worked Saturday morning got about six and sixpence a week . |
| 4 | ( When alone in Tom 's attic recently , found his passport and discovered that when he was born I was already at Grammar School , doing Domestic Science — in vain , as it turned out ) . |
| 5 | ‘ You did n't tell her the state I was in on Saturday night ? ’ he queried , obviously alarmed . |
| 6 | One morning I was off up Bambury Lane and John was waiting to catch Paul to come some trust or , I do n't know whether it 's social or what , bought a detached house on Bambury Lane cos there were an uproar . |
| 7 | Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave , and then I was back for about a week and we were gone . |
| 8 | So I said yeah , although I was more into soul music at the time , the sort of thing they played in pubs : Kool & The Gang , Earth Wind & Fire , even Michael Jackson before he was an industry . |
| 9 | I was back on home ground . |
| 10 | Even after having done the week 's shopping en route , I was back at Shellerton House as promised in good time for Tremayne to drive his Volvo to Newbury races . |
| 11 | Suddenly , too , I was back in wine country with terraced hillsides stretching up on both sides of the road . |
| 12 | ‘ I was there at Rendlesham Hall just over two years ; and then I went to Viscount Harcourt at Newnham Park , Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | ( 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The girls wept as they left the shop but soon they were eagerly planning to apply to one of the factories such as the Meccano which was now on war work . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was here on Friday night . |
| 18 | She was previously at BBC English . |
| 19 | She felt a boiling rage about the Westwards , the family who cut off their own flesh and blood , who let her be raised by the charity of the nuns and never bothered themselves to think that she was now of university age . |
| 20 | Just for a moment the solar slid away and she was back at Tracy Castle . |
| 21 | Charlotte did not read the report until she was back at Ockham House . |
| 22 | Now she was back to being second in command . |
| 23 | She was still at art school in London , so these massive machines were hardly accessible . |
| 24 | We spent two months in Cairo , living in the western suburb of Shafeyeen in an apartment rented from a French teacher who was away on home leave in Normandy . |
| 25 | Each of the four rounds was played as a pro-am four-ball , with a professional , a celebrity who was usually from show business and two amateurs , who paid handsomely for the privilege . |
| 26 | ‘ If you could find out who the man was , the one who was there on Christmas Day evening … he might have a few answers . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | All the rest were guest players , and they included the great Peter Doherty , who was then with Huddersfield Town . |
| 29 | He made his first appearance for Northampton Town at the age of 15 in a London Combination match with QPR and while he was with The Cobblers he was spotted by Tom Bromilow , a former Palace manager , who was then with Leicester City . |
| 30 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |