Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the us " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is understood that Sock Shop directors were in the US yesterday trying to find someone who might be prepared to take over the American end of the operation and continue to run it under the Sock Shop name . |
| 2 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 3 | Around 200 white wines were on the US tariffs blacklist , but a White House trade official would not deny they were taking special aim at France , which has persistently tried to block an agreement on farm subsidies and the prices of cereal substitutes . |
| 4 | Judi , who was in the US interviewing Hollywood stars , said : ‘ I nearly died when this lady kept saying I was getting married . ’ |
| 5 | Elvis 's own mother , Gladys , to whom he was devoted , died of a heart attack on August 14 , 1958 , while he was in the US Army . |
| 6 | Mr Bush was then vice president and his wife Barbara was in the US . |
| 7 | I was in the US over the summer ( yes , I just happened to see a couple of the England games ) and it was the same there — ordinary match-going footie fans who like a drink and a bit of crack ( fun , that is ) , and who all supported loads of different teams mixing together happily enough . |
| 8 | My father was in the US army over here . ’ |
| 9 | Only a return to US price stability would allow a once-and-for-all rise in the gold price to work , and there was nothing in the act of raising the price of gold which would make that more likely ( indeed , the improved gold backing for the dollar would relax such pressure as there was on the US government to maintain price stability in order to defend the dollar ) . |