Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I was at a wedding a little while back and all they were asking me was are you gon na be the next one ? |
| 2 | ‘ I was at a dinner the other night and the Chancellor was speaking . |
| 3 | Arnold put his ball in the greenside bunker , and even though it was on a slope the wind had blown the sand over it . |
| 4 | It was on a programme the other night saying the advice bureau are on the er companies cos some bloke , they were employing him to do something and he sued them and got two grand out of them . |
| 5 | It was in a sense the just reward of his method of conducting foreign policy . |
| 6 | He was for a time the coach at Harrow School and , from 1857 to his death , secretary of the Cricketers ' Fund Friendly Society . |
| 7 | When he was in a production the overall power was somehow raised . |
| 8 | If he was in a procession the other members of the procession still worried about his inability to walk a straight line and feared that at some point he would peel off from the file . |
| 9 | When Harry 's front axle buckled , he was behind a truck A few brief comments on each of these : in ( 35a ) the pronoun I is used gesturally to self-nominate from a group , in ( 35b ) it just has the symbolic usage ; in ( 36b ) the word ago places the time at which the action occurred relative to the time of speaking , in ( 36c ) the time is relative to the time at which the events in the narrative occurred . |