Example sentences of "[pron] was in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the Feathers the night Sandy MacAllister punched Laurence Uden on the nose for saying that Stanford Roberts had been drunk at poor old Sidney Cunningham 's funeral . ’ |
| 2 | " I learnt to live with other people when I was in the Services , but when you 've paid for your own room and it is n't your domain you feel insecure . |
| 3 | " I was in the newsagents " the other day — when you had that set-to with the girl . " |
| 4 | ‘ Then — then I was in the gardens … ‘ |
| 5 | We used to make those when I was in the brownies . |
| 6 | ‘ I was in the Cubs . |
| 7 | That 's right yeah , yeah , yeah but er cos I remember the caverns from before the war when I was in the Cubs . |
| 8 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 9 | The blank pages in my diary testify as much , and in addition that I was too apathetic to continue recording just how bored I was in the periods between my bouts of organising activity . |
| 10 | ‘ I was in The Specials in 1980. |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months . |
| 13 | Er I mentioned in the earlier session today about erm a situation that appertained when I was in the police at Maidstone . |
| 14 | The only one who spoke to me about it was a police officer when I was in the police station : ‘ Why is a young girl like you destroying yourself on this stuff . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm not big on soaps , though I was in The Newcomers for five weeks when I was about 14 or 15 . |
| 16 | When I was in the Signals this was . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in the corridors , ’ Tock began , still shaking from the shock . |
| 18 | I first had methadone tablets , dollies , when I was in the Tombs , back in 1960 . |
| 19 | At the time I was in the throes of training Dawn and it seemed obvious that I should do my talk on the owl . |
| 20 | I was in the Kings and Keys the night J. D. Maconochie told Bentham Miller that 0 . |
| 21 | ‘ Sometimes I was in the depths of despair , but the other inmates helped to carry me through prison . ‘ |
| 22 | From right from the time office er I used to go into blacksmith shop to mash tea because that 's where we used to We used to be able to go and take the cam for the timekeeper and I was in the stores too , and er mash the tea in the forge They put the kettle on the forge you see ? |
| 23 | And no doubt a sensible formula would have been devised in order to tell the jury that which was in the circumstances agreed to be appropriate . |
| 24 | The transmission design and construction function ( which was in the hands of a centralised headquarters group inherited from the CEB ) was a model of efficiency , but the power station side posed more serious problems . |
| 25 | He ‘ used much pains ’ in raising forces to attack the Royalists in Sherborne ; but his military career came to an ignominious end with the failure of his assault on Corfe Castle , which was in the hands of Mary , Lady Bankes [ q.v. ] , and her Amazonian maidservants . |
| 26 | Yet in 1985 free-market Britain seemed to be outpacing the rest of bank-monitored Europe , which was in the throes of ‘ Eurosclerosis ’ : slow growth thanks to closed markets , protected managers and workers , and backward technology . |
| 27 | The budget review sub-committee has a provisional date of Thursday the third of February , which was in the minds of members and officers to deal with anything urgent that needed to be dealt with before county council budget making . |
| 28 | Loud French pop music howled out of a cassette recorder and everybody danced with each other to a song which was in the charts at the time , . |
| 29 | She was in the woods at the gang hut . |
| 30 | During the last few days she had been sent a poison pen letter , had her life turned upside down , and now she was in the arms of the man whom she had been absolutely determined to divorce . |