Example sentences of "[was/were] in [noun prp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When Richard and Martin Sharp were in London it was my natural tendency to get involved with them , ’ says Wilcock . |
| 2 | While we were in London I took Dana to meet Joe Ackerley in his office in Marylebone High Street . |
| 3 | When you were in France you were certain Our Lady was French . |
| 4 | While we were in Poona we bought darling Sally because Rachel had become rather afraid of dogs , and while we were there who should turn up one day but dear old Madriya — he had come out of Burma on foot with his wife and daughter — he carried my old sewing machine for some time ! |
| 5 | ‘ Dad Weir used to smoke a pipe , and so when we were in Swansea we went along to one of those hairdresser and tobacconist shops , and there in the window was this great big pipe . |
| 6 | Tell you , if we were in Yorkshire I 'd send him to the , the , that er the convent school that I went to . |
| 7 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 8 | When they were in Australia we went out to visit them . |
| 9 | Of course , when we were in Bruges you told me about the hypochondriac darling you worked for , but what about before that ? ’ |
| 10 | Whenever Benjamin was in London he always visited her . |
| 11 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 12 | ‘ When I was in London I paid people to ascertain if the Templar church near Fleet Street contained anything resembling the River Jordan or the Ark of Moses . ’ |
| 13 | Yes , he ought used to be , he was in Scotland he was n't bro , brought George . |
| 14 | While she was in Scotland she went on Late Call a good number of times , and took part in a series entitled " Come wind , come weather , " in which various people were interviewed about crises in their life . |
| 15 | but , I , when I was in Stockport I went to work at that tailor 's shop |
| 16 | When he was in Norfolk he had to fill in an alien 's registration form . |
| 17 | While I was in Germany I took a special interest in the treatment of creative men and women who had lost direction and in some way broken down . |
| 18 | If it was in America you 'd be chaired . |
| 19 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 20 | And does n't this give us — faintly indeed , but unmistakably — just what we 've looked for in vain in all the other Sicilian allusions : that 's to say , evidence that when Pound was in Sicily he did n't go around with his eyes closed , his ears and nostrils stopped ? |
| 21 | While Elizabeth was in Athens I had given her a proof copy . |
| 22 | THE LAST TIME I WAS IN Baghdad I was sitting in the bar of the famous , and famously dreadful , Al Rashed ( ‘ It is more than a hotel , ’ say the advertisements , though they do n't tell you in what way ) , drinking with a senior government official . |
| 23 | So when he was in Birmingham he bought me this house , which was going cheap , so that I could start a money-lending business here for him . |
| 24 | ‘ The last time I was in England I was foolish enough to take a woman into my confidence . |
| 25 | ‘ If Kevin was in England he would be in care by now … ’ |
| 26 | While I was in Cookham she got knocked back on her parole , she got a five-year review . |
| 27 | Oh yeah , yes , when I went , when I went to a , when I was in India I went to have a , cos I went , I went , I was in the singles section then , in Colchester , and I went out , and I went , not I went to a licence agent first , and then I went to the headquarters , Signals there , and the bloke I remembered best of all , I think , was oh Cakey , his name was and his initials were Cakey . |
| 28 | ‘ Currently she 's got a lot of our designs in her wardrobe and the last time she was in Australia we had dinner together . ’ |
| 29 | Roger said : ‘ Having heard so much about TNT while I was in Australia I am pleased to see it working so successfully and in particular I am glad to see a continuation of product supply into the sales organisation as a direct result of TNT principles . ’ |
| 30 | I was wearing a thick semi-dry suit and I was quite cold the water was cold and this was in June I was quite nervous and I was forever adjusting my buoyancy to achieve neutral buoyancy . |