Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was near at the time , with Tiffany , in Mansfield . |
| 2 | The second , far more important lesson , I did n't learn until I was downstairs at the desk paying the actual bill : if you can get away with 50 quid for a bottle of anything in Sweden , take it . |
| 3 | ‘ Screaming ’ ‘ I was downstairs in the living-room and when I came out I found the whole stairway on fire , ’ she said . |
| 4 | I was nearly at the top of the post part when I saw Julie getting out of a car . |
| 5 | Well not so much cheaper cos I was most of the time I was doing it for nothing anyway . |
| 6 | I was again on the west side of the island and was walking along the shore . |
| 7 | After two days at home with my parents , I was again at the railway station , this time catching the early evening train to Fort William . |
| 8 | ‘ I was away during the war . |
| 9 | About a week or so ago , when I was away from the morning show for a week doing a bit of gardening , decorating , and all those things that we all love to take time off . |
| 10 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 11 | We got , I was right at the front in the balcony . |
| 12 | I was right in the middle of a sentence . |
| 13 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |
| 14 | One day , a year later , I was over on the west side of the island . |
| 15 | Oh , no , I was n't down by the river , I was over on the side next to the road . |
| 16 | I was over on the island . |
| 17 | I was over by the Orchard and then this . |
| 18 | ‘ They brought some other poor sod in , ’ he said , as if in answer to my question , ‘ but I was over behind the door and they did n't see me . |
| 19 | ‘ No , ’ he contradicts , ‘ I was ahead of the flow . ’ |
| 20 | I was firmly in the present , watching the starlings cavort over and under the telegraph wires and the wind shimmer the young leaves into a muzzy Monet . |
| 21 | I thought that as I was up with him , I was up with the leaders . |
| 22 | Now I was up with the world 's elite sprinters , with Ben and Carl , Calvin and Dennis . |
| 23 | Well we nearly when I was up with the children at the to when I was |
| 24 | I was up on the box all the time ! ’ |
| 25 | Then the American announcer said , ‘ The bronze medal , Linford Christie , Great Britain , ’ and I was up on the plinth , the medal was around my neck and the Union Jacks were waving . |
| 26 | I was up on the hill when the woman came . |
| 27 | In fact , as I recall , I was up on the step-ladder dusting the portrait of Viscount Wetherby when my employer had entered carrying a few volumes which he presumably wished returned to the shelves . |
| 28 | However , so erm she asked me if I 'd go up and give her hand to sort things out , so I was up on the Friday morning and I said well you better phone the corporation and tell them that you 're moving out on Saturday morning . |
| 29 | ‘ Last Saturday night I was up on the stage being congratulated on winning the car . |
| 30 | Its reflection on the water surface of the river at Abingdon advanced towards me , in this case not exactly to my feet because I was up on the bridge , but whatever else I managed to achieve in the picture I had to make this plane of the river advance . |