Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she were in that bedroom with us , the there were t there were dad , me , Barbara and Angela . |
| 2 | And he were in next bed to me , the truckle beds you know . |
| 3 | Sheila was in complete agreement with me on this subject , and the only disadvantage we could see to living in a barracks was having men in heavy boots walking about over your head . |
| 4 | He was in close proximity to us all day and was capable of making our lives hell . |
| 5 | Mr Noel Stock , who speaks as one who had Pound 's confidence in recent years and was in daily contact with him , explains that this passage derives from a hint thrown out by Jessie L. Weston in her from Ritual to Romance , to the effect that the charges of heresy brought against the Templars were not wholly unfounded , since some of the practices of the Eleusinian mystery-cults from the pagan Near East survived in the heart of Christendom in the rituals of the Templars , a survival to be traced in literature in the stories and poems about the quest of the holy grail . |
| 6 | The emperor 's reforming policies in the Austrian Netherlands , in particular his efforts to reduce the power of the Catholic Church there and to override provincial traditions and institutions , meant that from 1787 onwards much of the area was in open opposition to him . |