Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1875 a memorial was erected to him in the British Cemetery . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Denis and I provided the background music for this particular ‘ pack in the box ’ and much hissing was heard from me in the interval into the ear of our Company Manager Jeremy Adams . |
| 3 | ODDLY enough , although he was for almost 50 years a pillar of the British dance band scene , by his own account Joe Crossman 's only popular acclaim was given to him in the United States for his beautiful alto saxophone solo on Stanley Black 's mid-Forties recording of Django Reinhardt 's ballad ‘ Nuages ’ . |
| 4 | When Stephen returned the following day , the news was broken to him in the stable block by the groom who took his horse . |
| 5 | He accepted it when it was explained to him in the right way . |
| 6 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 7 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 8 | " Well , mother explained to me what was expected of me in the marriage bed and it sounded so terrifying . |
| 9 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 10 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 11 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 12 | — He understood very little of what was said to him in the Outpatient Clinic and could not explain it to his wife . |
| 13 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 14 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 15 | The appeal was made to them in the early 1970s to offer their home to ‘ special needs ’ children and they responded well , Now they are being asked to accept both the challenge of ‘ special needs ’ children and the possibility of continuing contact with members of the original family . |
| 16 | Secondly , the hon. Gentleman asked for a change of policy that would ensure that , before people were discharged from long-stay hospitals , proper provision was made for them in the community . |
| 17 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 18 | Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ? |
| 19 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 20 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 21 | Before I knew it , she was lying beside me in the small white tent . |
| 22 | One day I was browsing through it in the shop . |
| 23 | In the following year they staged a number of occupations of churches , but even that avenue of protest was closed to them in the end , because it became too dangerous . |
| 24 | I caught up with them about 3.30pm in Jackson Bridge where they were finishing a hymn , and possibly a silent prayer , before they marched back up the steep winding hill to Hepworth where a free tea was waiting for them in the school . |
| 25 | They went downstairs and the old lady was waiting for them in the hall . |
| 26 | The Management was waiting for me in the lounge of his magnificent suite . |
| 27 | The wench was waiting for me in the street . |
| 28 | He was waiting for her in the lounge . |
| 29 | She put down the receiver , feeling much happier , and even enjoyed the lukewarm haddock that was waiting for her in the kitchen . |
| 30 | Rune was waiting for her in the foyer as she stepped out of the lift . |