Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He and my father were in the army together , friends . |
| 2 | Beryl and her freind were in the living-room , across the passage . |
| 3 | Areas where the workforce extended their influence were in the procedures for promotion , where the power of managerial prerogative was weakened and increasing weight was given to seniority and skill tests ; in joint determination of rosters tor footplate and train staff ; in the ending of split shifts ; and in the reform of the authoritarian disciplinary system . |
| 4 | She and her husband were on the brink of breaking up and she could not cope with personal relationships . |
| 5 | She made it sound as if her husband were in the employ of a superior company . |
| 6 | Rhodes and her baby were at the centre of a nationwide hunt last month when they went missing . |
| 7 | Vivien Eliot was buried in a cemetery in Pinner , Middlesex ; her husband and her brother were among the few mourners . |
| 8 | A sobbing girl said : ‘ Gerard and his mum were in the living room when the shooting started . |
| 9 | The second episode which Mrs Whitehouse says she remembers with a mixture of ‘ amusement and incredulity ’ involved a scene in which Alf and his son-in-law were in the living room reading : Mike , a football book , and Alf a book that can not at first be seen . |
| 10 | When I first knew Emerson , the days of his glory were in the past . |
| 11 | When the AA van arrived they informed him they could not take his car home unless he or his girlfriend were in the recovery van . |
| 12 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 13 | ROUND the world yachtsman Robin Knox-Johnson and his crew were off the southern coast of Brazil yesterday as they maintained their challenge for the Jules Verne Trophy . |
| 14 | He kept listening for sounds that would tell him Blackbeard and his henchman were in the vicinity . |
| 15 | I presume that more patients from his district were near the top of our waiting list ; in addition to , a third of the patients having such bypass operations from his district this year had unstable angina and were operated on urgently . |
| 16 | Oh that 's good , that means , that means their anal passage and his rectum were in the right shape again . |
| 17 | And retired soldiers from his army were among the first of the century 's numerous British settlers in Pau . |
| 18 | Dickens based the character upon a ‘ reduced old lady ’ , Mrs Elizabeth Roylance , with whom he was sent to board as a child while his family were in the Marshalsea Prison , DS 8 et seq . |
| 19 | Such was Andrew Mellon 's acumen that he and his brother were among the four richest men in America . |
| 20 | He used to come and collect that , and er But er the union well we were alright A chap named he was the secretary and er and Jack he was the president and me Dad were on the committee , there were several of on the committee . |