Example sentences of "[pron] were in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Russell and I were in the road talking whilst he was fixing his car . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 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 | On the way home , Frank was driving and Harry and I were in the back seat , and Harry put his arm round me . |
| 6 | My mother and I were in the garden . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ It may seem so to you , but you can take my word for it , if I were in the business of prowling around car parks looking for innocent Bentleys to wreck , I most certainly would n't use my own car as a battering-ram . |
| 9 | My mother and I were in the kitchen when I saw him and involuntarily said , ‘ My God , he looks as though he 's … ’ |
| 10 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 11 | Long after I came to the army as I were telling you I used to go to pictures , I were in the S in the Savoy down Mostyn Street one one night I went and there in the programme there was this old er travel picture er some town or other th . |
| 12 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 13 | At Leeds , they er , I have n't been and er I were in the Conservative club at Queensbury and they had a club , they had er , er a trip that went through to the erm , to the brewery and Leeds tt and they have a fi er a sociable room you know |
| 14 | He was aware that the professor was deeply involved in the burgeoning poetry movement of Canada , chiefly in the form of ‘ the little books and magazines ’ which were in the van of the movement . |
| 15 | He came from an ancient Corvedale family , branches of which were in the forefront of Shropshire life during the seventeenth century — Francis 's nephew was a Member for Wenlock in Charles I 's parliament . |
| 16 | if it shall appear by the record of the books , rolls and memoranda of his court , or by ancient perambulations , or by any other sufficient evidence , that any royal demesnes , or lands or woods which were in the forests before the time of Henry II , had been excluded by the late perambulations , then they shall be re-afforested . |
| 17 | and it was interesting to note a few groups apparently in their infancy , not all of which were in the larger authorities : |
| 18 | So he began , with his bits of furniture which were in the real ‘ village-policeman ’ style , whatever that was . |
| 19 | Lee does , however , report that a group of 18 children , who had already been identified as having delayed language , showed a wide gap between comprehension scores which were in the ‘ low-normal range ’ and expressive scores which were ‘ very low ’ . |
| 20 | A brief list of these phrases which were in the documents in 1121 will show their relevance : |
| 21 | The books which were in the house were of another kind and pursued a different and more old-fashioned simplification ; some of them were indeed Victorian in fact as well as in tone , relics of her grandmother 's childhood . |
| 22 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 23 | It was the listeners up in the loggioni of whom the singers were most afraid : if the performance did not reach a sufficiently high standard in the opinion of the audience , the most vocal members of which were in the loggioni , they would be treated to il fichio , an outburst of whistling accompanied by the stamping of feet and sometimes a barrage of tomatoes or fruit . |
| 24 | In any case , the decision to create the polytechnics emanated from a policy devised by a small group of senior officials at the DES who , among other things , were concerned to create a top tier of institutions within the public sector to replace the CATs which were in the process of becoming universities . |
| 25 | He pointed out that his country had ‘ liquidated the military bases which were in the Mediterranean Sea and … forbidden the entry of Soviet naval ships into its harbours ’ . |
| 26 | For all of them limits to possible action were set by economic , social , political or military necessities which were in the main the legacy of the past . |
| 27 | Israel , he said , would be allowed to complete a pre-agreed number of houses which were in the process of construction in the occupied territories at the start of 1992 , in exchange for US$300 million in guarantees immediately and the remaining US$9,700 million staggered over six years . |
| 28 | Hotels which were in the first days of making order , and factories which came from the old Factories Act . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , when asked about the way the societies sold insurance , 49 per cent of customers said they trusted their society to sell them only those products and services which were in the customers ' best interests . |
| 30 | She herself felt curiously unreal , as though she were in the midst of a dream . |