Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I remember , one afternoon , going out with the whole of the rating committee , to houses at Eastwood and Beeston , and other places , and m in effect measuring them by counting how many nine inch bricks they were across the front and back , to make sure that , you know , nobody was subsidizing anybody else . |
| 2 | During July we were on the Women 's Heart tour — 28 gigs in 30 nights , packed houses all the way . |
| 3 | but er , you got more , you , of course you were nearer the river |
| 4 | You have established , at least in the eyes of others who were n't watching precise times , that at the very moment you were in the church , the Lady Eleanor was still alive . |
| 5 | Now come on Stephen you were at the same debate that I was at , the housing committee . |
| 6 | In November we were at the annual bazaar at the English ( episcopal ) church , where we also made many contacts . |
| 7 | Er the Saturday evening we were in the lounge and chatting away for two or three hours and he , he could not keep still . |
| 8 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 9 | The researchers compared the children 's health and lung function with their weight and how many weeks they were in the womb . |
| 10 | Within 4 years they were at the height of their achievements . |
| 11 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 12 | All Friday , Saturday and Sunday we were at the house , and he was shooting cocaine all the time — shooting it . ’ |
| 13 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 14 | I remember one day we were at the studio doing The Long Duel and we obviously were n't going to work . |
| 15 | One day we were at the top of the highest hill on the island , and we were looking out to sea . |
| 16 | As soon as Luce had been helped in and settled the gondolier plied his oar , and in less than a minute they were on the Grand Canal . |
| 17 | Anyway the next day they were on the er if machine is not clean when I come in then I should not run as I did not run this morning for four hours as I might as well come in on Saturday morning and clean them myself So she in . |
| 18 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 19 | They say when are you going to stop it , and I say , when am I going to stop it , when am I — it was the second night they were in the bar together after their week of absence I remember . |
| 20 | God I were in the market and I thought I 'd better take a bit more wrapping paper and I and I had it I said that 's ten and of course I get on the and I did n't know |
| 21 | Erm they were at the start they were at the finish and both days in between . |
| 22 | He based this on the belief that only where property considerations were absent — as by definition they were in the proletariat — could ‘ true sex-love ’ develop . |
| 23 | By mid-forenoon they could see Dunbar 's towers ahead ; and by noontide they were under the outer castle-bridge , with Ramsay shouting up his name to the watch and asking for the Countess Agnes . |
| 24 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 25 | Cognito , the UK two-way paging service re-born after a management buyout last year , has got coverage and subscriber numbers back to around the level they were before the service 's first incarnation folded . |
| 26 | In less than five minutes they were in the coach on their way to the address . |
| 27 | In the new Britain you were over the hill at twenty-five , never mind forty . |
| 28 | Almost to a man they were against the new phenomenon of the movies and they made no effort to include them in their ‘ night-time ’ world . |
| 29 | Before midday they were across the border into Luxembourg , surrounded by cliffs looming over the narrow serpentine road . |
| 30 | When they moved , every muscle ached but by midday they were in the fields again . |