Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was on the terraces until five years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ He actually told me I was on the streets and told me Brian owed all this money . |
| 3 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 4 | Yeah your , here 's , here 's your Christmas present I was on the streets for that . |
| 5 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 6 | I was on the skids , now I 'm doing all right . |
| 7 | I remember once I was on the steps of a hotel in Liverpool , and a middle-aged woman wearing a maroon coat came up and said , ‘ Hey , George , you know I 've always loved you , could I have your autograph ? ’ |
| 8 | Yeah , I was down the paddocks , I was , I was . |
| 9 | When I was with the cattle I always wore my the cap on the side of my head . |
| 10 | It ended up being a great three days music and two weeks later , I was with The Waterboys . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When I was with the Rockman-Queens we had a number of clients who were high in the diamond trade . |
| 12 | Well not cos I felt like it but I was at the lights in Bromley this bloke , this , was stand- , sort of kept staring at my front passenger side wheel . |
| 13 | I was at the Combeses ' yesterday , and the Hammonds were there . |
| 14 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 15 | Yes , ma'am , I understand ; and I have worked with children before … well , when I was at the nuns ’ school , it was part of the older pupils ' duty to be in charge of two or three of the younger ones to see they washed properly and … well , things like that , and just before I left I was doing this . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed when I was at the police college in 1987 and Jones was on the Senior Command Course prior to taking up a position as assistant chief constable , I took a straw poll among my immediate colleagues to see what influence such books achieve . |
| 17 | I was into The Stranglers , Joe Jackson , The Jam and Ian Dury . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | " I was in the newsagents " the other day — when you had that set-to with the girl . " |
| 21 | ‘ Then — then I was in the gardens … ‘ |
| 22 | We used to make those when I was in the brownies . |
| 23 | ‘ I was in the Cubs . |
| 24 | That 's right yeah , yeah , yeah but er cos I remember the caverns from before the war when I was in the Cubs . |
| 25 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I was in The Specials in 1980. |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Er I mentioned in the earlier session today about erm a situation that appertained when I was in the police at Maidstone . |