Example sentences of "and [pron] [was/were] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a short time later , Mala and I were in the safe side of our own ship 's airlock , staring at what lay nestled within the opened silicaplast container . |
| 2 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 3 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 4 | Because Joe and I were in the same position of being scolded by Mrs Joe , we were good friends , and Joe protected me from her anger whenever he could . |
| 5 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 6 | ‘ Ken , of course , was fairly right-wing and I was of the opposite persuasion . ’ |
| 7 | Angie Bowie : I actually met David for the first time when he was with feathers at the Roundhouse and I was with the European head of Mercury Records , a gentleman called Lou Reisner . |
| 8 | I was last on the County Council between nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty five , and I was on the Gipsy Working Party at that time , and nothing happened except scandalous public meetings where officers were , were allowed to be crucified by Conservative chairpersons and not a site appeared , public or private . |
| 9 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 10 | K. R. At Garston , there was a toilet on the main road and when we were on nights , and there was one officer walking along and I was on the other side — we dare n't cross the road . |
| 11 | This was a day of staying put in Stornoway and I was in the best of company as Prince Charles was also in town . |
| 12 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 13 | I 've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages . |
| 14 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 15 | What and who was behind the new Ali , the wily Washington lobbyist who had the ear of everyone from Strom Thurmond to Orrin Hatch ? |
| 16 | When Corkill , of Darlington , Co Durham , was stopped by police , the boy was in her car and she was over the drink-drive limit , Teesside magistrates heard . |
| 17 | ‘ Answer me , ’ he thundered , and she shivered ; her pleasant , familiar room had become a battlefield , and she was on the losing side . |
| 18 | Any ideas on that score swiftly evaporated , however , when his glance suddenly shot to hers , and she was on the receiving end of his piercing eyes as , ‘ According to this , you should have been here last Friday ! ’ he charged . |
| 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 | It was my role to lead the squadron off and that night we were bound for somewhere in the Ruhr and we were on the short runway at Oakington . |
| 21 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 22 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 24 | She was almost shouting but it was the week before Christmas and we were in the Three Tuns and there were at least six different parties going on , so nobody noticed . |
| 25 | And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flocks by night . |
| 26 | And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field , keeping watch over their flock by night . |
| 27 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 28 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
| 29 | And they were in the front room going wild ! |
| 30 | Their contract had come to an end ( see Chapter 14 , Frustration , below ) and they were in the same position as any other free seamen in Port Philip : ‘ they might stipulate for any amount of remuneration ; and , considering the circumstances , £40 might not have been an exorbitant sum ’ — per Erle J. |