Example sentences of "[was/were] and [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have my own contributions returned or I could leave my pension where it was and draw it at the age of sixty-five . |
| 2 | I told him yes it was and brought him into the hall . |
| 3 | Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers . |
| 4 | They then spent the rest of the lesson — the first part had taken twenty minutes — in writing an account of why Rome was settled where it was and comparing it with the legends that they knew concerning Rome . |
| 5 | ‘ The rod with the smelt on soon went again and I did not realise how big the fish was and steered it around the swim for a minute to break the ice . |