Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed right where I was on the floor telling myself I 'd be fine in just a few minutes . |
| 2 | That was very early on in my filming if anyone had asked me I would have said ‘ I 'm always on the move , you know I never sit down in a lesson , and I do n't sit down but where I was on the move was in a very limited space so just having the camera at the back on that table , just having it still showed me so much about what was going on in the room and how you use the time … |
| 3 | Cunning — she could find out where I was from the town code . |
| 4 | She then went onto Yale Law School where she was on the board of the law review and met her husband . |
| 5 | Mr Loveitt ignored Jess who remained where she was by the wall . |
| 6 | 1 State exactly where you were at the time ( if in a motor vehicle please give number ) . |
| 7 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 8 | She tried to look past him , but it was almost impossible to see what or who was in the room beyond . |
| 9 | Agitation by Serbs in Croatia came to a head with the unilateral proclamation on Oct. 1 by the so-called Serbian National Council of an " autonomous region " comprising those districts where they were in the majority . |
| 10 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 11 | Dudley was officially to hear of his wife 's death the following day , when a messenger was despatched from Cumnor Place to Windsor Castle where he was with the Queen . |
| 12 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 13 | They remained in Ottawa after his military service , where he was on the advisory board of a trust company and was close to the excellent fishing of the Gatineau hills . |
| 14 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 15 | He had n't got where he was in the world without knowing how to get what he wanted , and he appeared to want her . |
| 16 | It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop . |
| 17 | To bring the Crown out of the poverty and debt which had marked most of the reign of Henry VI , both Edward IV and Richard III used professional receivers , auditors , and surveyors to increase the revenue from Crown lands ; and much of this larger income was paid , neither to the Exchequer nor to the Crown 's creditors , but to the Chamber of the royal Household , where it was at the disposal of the King . |
| 18 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 19 | Chesarynth did n't miss the impersonal attentions of the technician and the nurse , but the magic box stayed firmly where it was in the suite in the house on the ‘ dark ’ side of the moon . |
| 20 | Or it was for the production crew working on the new children 's series The Borrowers . |
| 21 | Whoever , or whatever was in the hold seemed unwilling or unable — they had battened down the hatch once more — to do battle in the open . |
| 22 | Because you 'd only get half a pound perhaps and perhaps you 'd only get perhaps , this unit 'd only get two , According to what came into the country , or what was on the market . |
| 23 | ‘ It has been claimed that their parents did not know the full extent of the dealings or what was on the films . ’ |
| 24 | Just to quickly assess that we were n't going forward to erm a horrible situation where er one of us or somebody else is going to be injured , so there would have been a very , very quick check to see who or what was in the room . |
| 25 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 26 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 27 | When I bought my first company and began to build up the business , I had to live in the city , so that I was at the centre of things . |
| 28 | I mean I 've just , but all the years that I was at the home every day I would say hello Flo , hello Elsie how are you ? |
| 29 | Paul was invited to give a series of public lectures at the school , and word got around that I was on the verge of retirement and Paul would be happy to take my place . |
| 30 | He was obviously satisfied that I was on the level and reserved two birds on the spot , £35 each . |