Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incest and necrophilia were as nothing to the amorous Egyptian gods . |
| 2 | Bock and Grigoriev were behind him on the main section of the catwalk . |
| 3 | We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain … |
| 4 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
| 5 | Others were with us for the first time — students from the Darlington area . |
| 6 | The familiar house , the carpeted hall , were before him for the last time . |
| 7 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 8 | Now , as she came back to the present , Lady Merchiston 's own eyes were on her in a compelling look , demanding an answer . |
| 9 | AU eyes were on her in a bright red cretonne two-piece and Normandy satin hat with wide frill . |
| 10 | The final information turned up late and we were at it till the small hours . |
| 11 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 12 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 13 | ‘ I was against it from the first . |
| 14 | My brother was with her for a long while . |
| 15 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 16 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , as I have said , I was with him in the great hall . |
| 18 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 19 | Ms Ang , a surgeon , volunteered to provide medical assistance to Palestinians and was with them during the Israeli invasion of West Beirut in 1982 . |
| 20 | One day during the early summer , Guy Gibson of Dam Busters fame flew in to Bourn and was with us for a few hours . |
| 21 | It was from something on a thin silver chain around her neck , and after snapping it free he stood up to inspect his find in the available light . |
| 22 | She had already discovered to her cost just how strongly attracted she was to him on a physical level . |
| 23 | Every investigation was to her like a personal crusade , a quest , that she had to complete . |
| 24 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 25 | But it is certainly possible , at least , that he survived the Cross — if , indeed , it was he who was on it in the first place , rather than the substitute claimed by the Koran and by many early heresies . |
| 26 | As they try tomorrow to do against the brilliant Brazilians what was beyond them against the amateurish Americans , the Liverpool new boy is reminded of Nottingham Forest 's brave battle against relegation . |
| 27 | His ring classicism has always argued so persuasively against excessive physical harm , his pride was beyond anything but a regal exit . |
| 28 | Stoddard Templeton was among them as a major manufacturer , impressively displaying the exhibition logo part woven as a carpet and part as a print out from the design studio computer . |