Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [was/were] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I know it was in the paper |
| 8 | I know he was in the theatre . |
| 9 | Will Hodge keep his place ( I assume he was in the line-up for the Sunderland match ) ? |
| 10 | But suppose I was in the bathroom , and wanted to go to the kitchen . |
| 11 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 12 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 13 | Oh yeah I suppose he was in the sort of |
| 14 | She got injured in her back somewhere , but er it was national news , I mean it was in The Mirror and all the papers and it became a , for a day or two it was er it was in everywhere , and the theory is that er it was this erm very very dry summer and a very very wet autumn and a bit of dry rot in the timbers somewhere , but it was it was another |
| 15 | And erm I think I was in the middle somewhere , I was n't er brilliant but I must have been somewhere in the middle I suppose . |
| 16 | The first day at the newspaper they sent me into the darkroom with a roll of film and I think I was in the closet for about five hours before I could figure out how to put it on the reel . ’ |
| 17 | Maggie could n't help but think she was in the middle of a death trap . |
| 18 | She was in the Metropolitan Police , and then she was in the army o , I think she was in the army over here as well then . |
| 19 | ‘ I can check the report but I think he was in the pub at Goldsithney until ninish then he went home . ’ |
| 20 | I wish I was in the warm . |
| 21 | If it makes you feel any better , you may like to know that she 's been telling me that our separation was all my fault — because I was too proud to climb down , or admit I was in the wrong . |
| 22 | In Britain … wish we were in the alps … meanwhile in the Alps … |
| 23 | He has no intellect and does not improve a bit : I wish he was in the army ’ . |
| 24 | No it does all over the place , wherever put newspaper down , he does it on the carpet so kept doing it by the cooker so we put newspaper down there , and put the toys away , see they was in the way you see , put newspaper down there and then next would n't have that , . |