Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ? |
| 2 | That it came to this shows how involved Priestley was in the religious disputes and politics of his day . |
| 3 | But if so , how did he know Aldrich was on the train ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
| 5 | Police believed Elstob was under the influence of drink or drugs . |
| 6 | Traditionally , the time to visit Madeira was in the winter months ( October to April ) , to escape the cold northern European winters , and the low season was in the summer months . |
| 7 | They discovered Lily was on the stage — had just left it . |
| 8 | Lance Percival was in the audience the night that Ken descended on the stage from a rope , curled up his lips , flared his nostrils and in the snide voice he had used a hundred times in the Hancock shows slipped in a ‘ Hello ’ that had the Williams fans rolling . |
| 9 | ‘ The girl named Shirley was from the village . |
| 10 | I remember my first gig after joining John was at the White Hart , Acton , and I rolled up with my P-bass and my Gibson amp — a Titan was it ? — a grey pyramid-shaped amp . |
| 11 | The monitor 's déjà vu meant Thea was on the job . |
| 12 | However it meant Rocky was on the bench again . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew Alan was in the house somewhere but I did n't know where . |
| 14 | The next time that he saw Diane was at the funeral , some three weeks later . |
| 15 | It was assumed Nicola was among the dead , ’ a Foreign Office spokesman said last night . |
| 16 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 17 | Pausanias thought Myrtilos was under the heads of Oenomaus 's horses , but since he certainly took the girl for male he may have meant her . |
| 18 | I gather Frome was in the room with him when he — well , started retching . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites . |
| 20 | Although I met Theresa on the way back from erm school and she said Alec was at the doctors cos not the way back from school , way back from the library . |
| 21 | And she said Alec was at the doctors cos he was feeling under the weather . |
| 22 | ‘ Ba , ’ she said , ‘ did you not say Wilson was in the way of being in touch ? , |