Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were in school they were saying ‘ you can be anything you f—ing wan na be ’ , and I think that was the first generation of women that ever heard that , except for thousands of years ago . |
| 2 | It erm well I du n no cos if you were in bingo they would say the bingo bus goes at |
| 3 | So I would say to this Council when they were in power they set compulsive competitive tendering that sent thirteen hundred people down the road . |
| 4 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 5 | Liberal Democrat candidate Suzanne Fletcher said if her party were in power they would bring in a new type of rented housing , called partnership housing , which would cater for middle income groups wanting to rent rather than buy , built through public and private money . |
| 6 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 7 | When Labour were in office they cut police expenditure by 2 per cent . |
| 8 | As soon as they knew I was in prison they were trying to get involved and everything . |
| 9 | When Stephen was in hospital they kept us on the same house with all the mothers and babies , even though I had asked to be off it . |
| 10 | When your party was in power they barely provided one pitch in the whole of the county |