Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police .
2 I was cast opposite him but I was nothing like the draw he was and we had had a dodgy time on tour .
3 ‘ I told 'em — -them — you were nothing of the kind .
4 Were you were you in the drama clubs here when you were younger then as well ?
5 You were mine for the taking … ’
6 ‘ You must be exhausted , ’ he immediately suggested , when she was nothing of the kind .
7 Barely five feet four and dressed in sensible shoes , blue silky dress and yellow sash , she was nothing like the glittering bimbos in stilettos and the quietly elegant wives of the money men sitting all around us .
8 But the more she thought about his arrogant assumptions , his conceited certainty that she was his for the taking , the more she bristled with indignation …
9 Even if she never saw him again , even if he married Dana , she was his for the rest of her life .
10 Michael Aspel , who made his first TV appearance in 1957 , hosts The Trouble With The Fifties , an LWT special which revives the decade 's golden moments with vintage clips and an audience of anyone who was anybody at the time .
11 From their lowly status they were still able to perceive who was who in the Rowdies hierarchy and which subunits were worth making a try for .
12 ‘ So who was it in the hotel ?
13 Who was it in the red suit ?
14 What I said to you was nothing but the truth .
15 Now how how was the army itself organized , did you was it in the in the normal normal sense of the army
16 ‘ Maybe people would think we were something like the British Labour Party , ’ he said hopefully .
17 There was no one else : Cal 's two older brothers worked away — one was something in The City .
18 There were plenty in the Store .
19 And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur .
20 And then he felt as if there were someone nearby , as if there were someone on the summit waiting , waiting to greet him .
21 Here there were none of the accustomed party cant or heroics about the Revolution .
22 Adrar was clean , and there were none of the African smells offensive to western noses — just the opposite .
23 The permanent staff was gradually purged to other camps until there were none of the original ‘ old people ’ left .
24 There were none of the crowds that had been there during the day and we could really pray .
25 Moreover , the papers were run as political ventures ; there were none of the commercial , management , planning and sales activities that were to be found at the Standard .
26 There were none of the demonstrations or obstructions which he had feared , and in fact such was the success of the play that he was featured on the cover of Time magazine on 6 March .
27 This was another of those naked spaces , so exposed it was useless — putting a chair out there to sit in the sun seemed unthinkable , there were none of the nooks and crannies or spaces that invited use .
28 There were none of the battered paperbacks usually left abandoned after rainy afternoons in holiday houses , no near pornography and , she thought , no detective stories , until she remembered the Sherlock Holmes collection beside the bed .
29 Standards slipped but there were none of the old crowd now to witness the decay .
30 Er there were none of the incubators and this sort of thing for them like we 've got today .
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