Example sentences of "[indef pn] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasper wondered if the man in uniform had actually seen Chris on the roof of the car , had had a phone call from Kensington High Street that someone was on the roof of a car , or if he knew nothing except what that woman was telling him . |
| 2 | Someone was on the floor above them . |
| 3 | Maxham was one of the chatty type , like a superior salesman , a foot through the door before you had time to register that someone was on the doorstep . |
| 4 | someone was on the phone . |
| 5 | Beyond the fence , someone was in the garden , digging . |
| 6 | Someone was in the corridor . |
| 7 | Fortunately nobody was on the face at the time of the avalanche and all climbers and walkers in the area have been accounted for . |
| 8 | Nobody was in the house . |
| 9 | ‘ Fortunately nobody was in the toilet and there were no injuries . |
| 10 | In due course the black goat was sacrificed with the appropriate ceremonies to appease the river and nobody was in the least surprised when , little by little , the river began to fall . |
| 11 | that nobody was , nobody was in the business of not enforcing those , erm , but the only way I could erm fulfil , the obligations arising out of the treaty and abstain from measures that jeopardize the attainments of the objectives of the treaty , er was to allow the monies to be collected by er leaving you free to pursue your counterclaim , because then if you 're right , erm then you would achieve everything you are entitled to achieve , by your counterclaim , that would achieve the objectives of article eighty five , erm whereas the collection of the money would achieve the objectives of the directive |
| 12 | Venice was obviously a city to be seen on foot or , better still , she thought dreamily , by slow gondola , because everything was on the human scale without a city block in sight . |
| 13 | It was suggested that a head who tried to do everything was on the way to an early grave ( Torrington and Weightman 1991:6 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ So everything was for the best , Maggie ? ’ |
| 15 | did and erm everything was through the money , everything , went in that fortnight ! |
| 16 | A DEC spokesman said that everything was in the early stages , and that he would n't like to comment on numbers — not even the 6,000 proposed lay-offs , although software engineering staff would be among the casualties , he also could n't say if they would be part of the wave of redundancies mentioned above . |
| 17 | ‘ It was the last thing I wanted to do , but everything was in the balance . |
| 18 | This showed how very different everything was from the situation that had developed in England over the course of centuries , and colonial developments always gave Englishmen the idea that they were moving into empty land and seeing what could be made out of it . |
| 19 | There was a feeling that something was in the air , that it was the lull before the storm . |
| 20 | And with unnerving certainty she knew that something was in the corridor with her — something that blended its colour and shape so perfectly that it was invisible . |
| 21 | Something was in the cell with him . |
| 22 | Er the other one was towards the latter end of the strike and er this particular area , the Notts area , er had what was called broken away from the er from the main body er of the strike . |
| 23 | One was about the alleged involvement of the special branch . |
| 24 | Well the County made certificates for the Polytechnic phase two student hostels off John Garne Way , er that actually for phase one was about the last time they got an award at all , and er the panel were very pleased with those , they said they had a nice community feel , and yet the occupants had some privacy , they thought they , and they were pleased to see how well phase one had weathered as well . |
| 25 | One was for the bridegroom 's father and the other would never be worn . |
| 26 | He had condemned one of the men to death — which one was for the future . |
| 27 | The nearest one had been for the use of the Conway 's house , the second one was for the use of Tommy Grant and his family . |
| 28 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 29 | one were the one was for the artillery and one was for the infantry . |
| 30 | One was with the billionaire ruler of Abu Dhabi , Sheik Zayed . |