Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time I was of the same colouring ( there 's a portrait of me hanging at Burpham ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't think I was on the same wavelength as the Prime Minister almost from the start , although I did work for her beforehand and try to pull together some of the policies . |
| 4 | I was on the same delegation to Russia and the Ukraine . |
| 5 | I shouted thanks and crossed over , though I was on the same side as every local runner . |
| 6 | Yeah but I was , I was on the same place as I was one behind him ! |
| 7 | Thank you Chair , as the chair of that meeting yesterday , I was wondering if I was at the same committee as this m these minutes came from , because when I read the minutes two and three , I certainly did n't remember us passing those . |
| 8 | They put a lot of effort into it , but I tell you what , if I read Access , I would never have believed I was at the same conference . |
| 9 | I felt them , if I was in the same position , I would probably drink heavily as well . |
| 10 | ‘ If I was in the same situation again 100 times I would come for the same punch and back myself to clear the ball every time ’ |
| 11 | And when I came round I was in the same place . |
| 12 | When I was in the same area again last week ( w/c July 5 '91 ) I went up to the shelters one evening and cleaned out all the rubbish prior to spending the night there . |
| 13 | He was so thick that I was in the same form as Dan . |
| 14 | Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified . |
| 15 | She might as well try Veronica 's house again , although she was disturbed to find that she was on the same track as hordes of newspaper reporters . |
| 16 | ‘ I felt I could do that with you , but it was more difficult with her — partly because she was about the same age as me probably . ’ |
| 17 | She was about the same age as his own daughter but she looked as if she had the troubles of the world on her . |
| 18 | She was in the same year as Humber , and had the same brisk efficiency , but was much more friendly . |
| 19 | Her name was Nellie and she was in the same class as me at school and her family had not long moved into the neighbourhood . |
| 20 | She said she was in the same boat as himself and kept her fist closed tight in the pocket of her overall on the one and ninepence Uncle Vernon had given her earlier . |
| 21 | Looking at his froggy face , half-submerged in the murky water , it was hard to believe that he really was anything more than an ordinary frog , and Mildred could see why no one had recognized her when she was in the same plight . |
| 22 | The shuttle was n't much like a London bus in shape , but it was about the same size . |
| 23 | Now the editors have picked out some plums to make up a poets ' special - from Eliot and Auden , through Allen Ginsberg ( 'I think it was about the same time that I was having these Blake visions ' ) to John Ashbery and the delightful Elizabeth Bishop . |
| 24 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 25 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 26 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 27 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 28 | It was on the same wall as the door , to the left of it and just beside the telephone . |
| 29 | He would always remember handing over the final payment , because it was on the same day as the first big aeroplane raid over London and he spent most of that night hiding under his father 's bed , with both Sal and Kitty clinging on to him for dear life . |
| 30 | I reali I realized it was on the same day Mark . |