Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunt involved admitted it was in the wrong . |
| 2 | Life in South Africa , once he started dancing , was one long rush , and his early days in London too , but when he stopped dancing he was in an unusual position . |
| 3 | Most of the time Harry was playing for Crystal Palace we were a Third Division club and so it is not surprising that most of the great achievements to which he helped to take us were in the FA Cup . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd assumed it was in the mortuary . |
| 5 | Why had n't she simply walked out of the theatre as soon as she 'd discovered he was in the cast ? |
| 6 | She had no idea Simon had sent off her photo for the slimming contest until a letter arrived saying she was in the final . |
| 7 | And I have stayed ever since because when I joined Roadwatch it was at a time when they were developing from just 15 information stations throughout the country — there are now almost 100 . |
| 8 | She began to wish she were on a surgical ward , but there was no chance of that happening within the next couple of months . |
| 9 | I had to sleep in a tee-shirt , and when all the spots started popping I was in the worst state of my life . |
| 10 | Carrington 's flight was put off three times , and when he did go it was in the belly of a Mosquito , lying on a blanket and wrapped in a heavy coat . |
| 11 | You did say you were from the W I did you ? |
| 12 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |
| 13 | The passport that the Colonel had given him was in the inside pocket of his anorak . |
| 14 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 15 | Someone had said she was like an Abyssinian cat and so she was . |
| 16 | Moreover , Cézanne had felt he was respecting the laws of traditional , scientific perspective . |
| 17 | The man who had greeted her was on the deck of his boat cleaning something . |
| 18 | They had known they were on the knife edge , and interest rates had been at 8 per cent . |
| 19 | If he had known I was on the stage , he 'd have murdered me . |
| 20 | But Pardy had known he was in a crowded place and that animals were involved which might very well react with panic at his action . |