Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [was/were] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I I mean I was on the phone and th , there was a knock at the door and this woman came round and said she was from from the |
| 2 | I mean I was at the party but I did n't see anything suspicious . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd called her Rory earlier in the evening — when they 'd been dancing , when he 'd kissed her and made her completely forget she was in the middle of a crowd of people . |
| 4 | ‘ Last night , when you say you were on the Wheel with him ? ’ |
| 5 | I say it was on the cards because throughout the match the Scousers used the tactic of playing the long ball towards Rush and it was then quite simply a one-on-one race with either Fairclough or Newsome . |
| 6 | In a Welsh farm family the grandmother was bedridden , and child-care fell to the grandfather : ‘ cause he was in the house , he was the one that looked after me and kept me in order . ’ |
| 7 | I mean you were at the meeting that 's why I 'm referring to you . |
| 8 | So when I saw James ( true story this ) in Sainsbury 's , I walked up to him , leered , banged him on the elbow with a bottle of freshly squeezed orange juice and said , ‘ Tom Jones ! ’ because the last time I meet him was on the Tom Jones TV programme . |
| 9 | Especially if you consider he was on the trail of the man he believes had his family abducted and almost certainly murdered . |
| 10 | I suspect he was in the Tower not because he could count the days but was privy to secrets which could rock thrones and topple crowns ! ’ |
| 11 | But I remember I was on the way into Howard 's bungalow , and Bogie was coming out , having just seen my screen test , and he said , ‘ We 're going to have a lot of fun together . ’ |
| 12 | I ca n't actually recall all the numbers , but I remember I was in the States at one point and I took the album over and tried to sell it to a record company . |
| 13 | ‘ Like you were at the tables last night and the night before that ? ’ |
| 14 | I hear you were at the Empire the other night ? |
| 15 | ‘ I hear you were on the box last night , ’ said small , cheerful voices in Dyson 's ear . |
| 16 | Of all the ways to commit a murder , is n't it a strange coincidence that Angy was stabbed in the throat , just like she was in the portrait ? ’ |
| 17 | Erm and there was just , and there was very little by the way of of grass even and er you know it was towards the end of the life of the flats really , that the play scheme got going . |
| 18 | And after a while you know it was without the women we would 've been you know nothing . |
| 19 | Erm I I know it was in the context of a a question you posed to him that er if he had in fact er accepted the County Council 's housing figures er that would have been an appropriate hundred and twenty two hectares would have been appropriate er on the employment side . |
| 20 | I know it was in the paper |
| 21 | You know he was under the covers . |
| 22 | I know he was in the theatre . |
| 23 | Will Hodge keep his place ( I assume he was in the line-up for the Sunderland match ) ? |
| 24 | Ok roger I was at the Fav and I guess you were but there were two guys fitting your description ( I never knew that sheepskins were so popular ! ) |
| 25 | But suppose I was in the bathroom , and wanted to go to the kitchen . |
| 26 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 27 | I believe you were at the theatre ? ’ |
| 28 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I suppose it was on the floor somewhere , in a pub where I was tryin' to sell some violets to save meself from real starvation . |
| 30 | ‘ Although I suppose it was against the English , ’ she observed with a mournful little sigh . |