Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , as I have said , I was with him in the great hall . |
| 4 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 5 | 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 . |