Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lunch and then sat on the wheelbarrow swatting flies , neither willing to go further out of my way , nor to return , just in case I was on the right track . |
| 2 | But I gave my genuine reason for returning earlier , which was the Arts Council 's monthly meeting , in which I was deeply interested and whose chairman I was at the time . |
| 3 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 4 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I was on the same squadron as him for a time . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I was at the time . |
| 7 | Well it was steady income I was in the house every night my wife was happy . |
| 8 | Within minutes I was inside the camp , where I hoped to meet the tinkers who had tried to rob me at Killorglin . |
| 9 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 10 | At times I was on the way down and the ball was on the way up . |
| 11 | And then eight or nine weeks after my happy entry into College I was on the carpet — kindly chat , of course , but none the less serious for not being a court martial ! |
| 12 | If anybody said , if , Tuesday we started , if anybody said on the , what they want sent them Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , take all the orders down under their appropriate names in the book but right an Mond Tuesday , Wednesday Thursday my day off and Friday and Saturday I was in the office . |
| 13 | For two centuries it was under the Habsburgs , but in the fifteenth it passed to Zurich . |
| 14 | And for a period of centuries it was under the joint rule of Bern and Fribourg . |
| 15 | By the time she 'd sat up and pushed the dishevelled hair out of her eyes he was behind the wheel , and the car was moving forward . |
| 16 | An etymologist he was to the bitter end . |
| 17 | In other words it was on the basis of substitution . |
| 18 | Hence it was that in many subjects he was behind the knowledge of the day . |
| 19 | Last time we ‘ phoned Richard he was in the middle of roasting a duck for birthday meal with Roger and Katie ( his ‘ lodger ’ ) . |
| 20 | AT 9 PM he was on the operating table . |
| 21 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 22 | Aye , in the Washington I was in the Washington |
| 23 | T. D. I was on the beat round Stanley Hospital and I got to this point at four o'clock on the Saturday morning . |
| 24 | So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee . |
| 25 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 26 | By the end of the first lap he was in the lead group , following Klementiev , Bohacs and Zereske with Bartunek already in the process of being dropped and no-one else in sight . |
| 27 | Enough has been said even in this brief review to make the point that when men wished to designate sanctity or degrees of sanctity it was to the hierarchy of precious substances that they turned for appropriate symbols . |
| 28 | While in Scotland Calvinism was soon officially triumphant , in England it was on the whole successfully opposed by the compromise of Elizabethan Anglicanism upheld by the monarch and most of the Archbishops of Canterbury . |
| 29 | And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches . |
| 30 | In these concerns he was within the tradition of the founding fathers of sociology , not outside it . |