Example sentences of "was in the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the bar at the theatre and everyone famous was there — Pauline from ‘ EastEnders ’ and the Queen ( she was dragging Princess Anne behind her in a pushchair ) and Meryl Streep and Samantha Fox and Rowan Atkinson and Paul McCartney looking like Lady Macbeth — his hands were dripping with blood . |
| 2 | No one was in the toilet at the time . |
| 3 | When I came to I was in the cabin at the end of M.3 and still having a saline transfusion . |
| 4 | Authorised is important because there was a famous case of an insurance company turning down a claim for a fitted kitchen damaged by fire when they discovered that a motorbike was in the kitchen at the time . |
| 5 | It is a blessing that no one was in the church at the time . ’ |
| 6 | Years later , I was doing a scene where I had to murder my husband — it was a very dramatic scene and it was in the pit at the Royal Shakespeare Company , so it was just this tiny little theatre , with everybody sitting very close to you , and you can see everybody , and you can hear everything . |
| 7 | His career as a naturalist had begun when he was in the army at the end of the Napoleonic Wars ; serving in Malta and Sicily , he met Rafinesque ( later a founder of botany in the USA ) , who infected him with enthusiasm for natural history . |
| 8 | Well I can remember when I went Was in the water at the start , there was You could see a lot of boats coming in alongside the platform . |
| 9 | Antonietta , who was in the shop at the time , then took charge . |
| 10 | He was in the House at the time , so he should hang his head in shame . |
| 11 | Oxford the red hot favourites have made 3 changes to their lineup in the run up to this year 's race and Sam was only told she was in the boat at the weekend . |
| 12 | She was in the bedroom at the time and in an advanced state of pregnancy . |
| 13 | And then we used to do erm exercises with er from different areas , they 'd come and attack our area or we 'd come and try and in il infiltrate in their area and er we had , we had a night exercise and we was erm went out Saturday afternoon , we was out all Saturday night and Sunday and on the Sunday mid day we was still er out and we was in the farmyard at the farm at end of Brierley 's Lane by Bell Lane , off Bell Lane , Brierley 's Lane right at other end , we was in their farmyard and their outer buildings and we was str put out on guard duty from the Stafford Road to Broad Lane , and we was protecting that area , they were supposed to be coming from the Cannock area towards us and er we was in the , in the farmyard and course the m muck and stuff and all that out of the farmyard was there and the ducks was wallowing in it . |
| 14 | Catherine 's parents could not explain why she was in the car at the time . |
| 15 | Bradman says it was Fingleton , Fingleton said it was Bradman , and Leo O'Brien ( the 12th man ) further confused the issue by revealing in a recent interview with Wisden Cricket Monthly that neither Bradman nor Fingleton was in the room at the time of the exchange , but ( former Australian Test players ) Ryder and Kippax , who were both reporting the matches in one way or another , were . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I was in the FANY at the beginning of the war , ’ Felicity said , recovering her complexion , ‘ and then I was seconded to Peter 's department … a kind of research assistant . ’ |
| 17 | In May , Thomas and Martha were tried in London for the murder of their children ; Thomas was found not guilty — as there was no evidence to suggest a motive , or that he was in the area at the time — and Martha was acquitted on the grounds of insanity . |
| 18 | ‘ That is the only person as far as we are aware who was in the area at the time , and they must have seen what happened , but so far they have not come forward . ’ |
| 19 | He was in the area at the time — 9.45am . |
| 20 | Police are appealing for anyone who was in the area at the time of the attack to come forward . |