Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 2 | We stayed in a cottage on the cliffs , overlooking the harbour , and within moments of arrival , my brother Ian and I were at the end of the pier , fishing . |
| 3 | she was for the top of the hockey team and I were for the football |
| 4 | Even from where Taff and I were on the road it was obvious that the dead soldiers were German . |
| 5 | John and I were on the dole . |
| 6 | Vic and the crew were on the bank , Matt and I were on the raft with about a dozen Indians paddling and poling . |
| 7 | ‘ Dear Thomas and I were on the point of announcing our engagement . |
| 8 | My friends and I were of the resistance . |
| 9 | Russell and I were in the road talking whilst he was fixing his car . |
| 10 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 11 | A friend and I were in the back streets of St Tropez , looking for a taxi , and I was desperate for a pee . |
| 12 | Because Joe and I were in the same position of being scolded by Mrs Joe , we were good friends , and Joe protected me from her anger whenever he could . |
| 13 | On the way home , Frank was driving and Harry and I were in the back seat , and Harry put his arm round me . |
| 14 | My mother and I were in the garden . |
| 15 | And a short time later , Mala and I were in the safe side of our own ship 's airlock , staring at what lay nestled within the opened silicaplast container . |
| 16 | My mother and I were in the kitchen when I saw him and involuntarily said , ‘ My God , he looks as though he 's … ’ |
| 17 | I 'd sent Mum to the acupuncturist to try and give her some energy , and Jack and I were in the house when we heard a terrible thud . |
| 18 | The overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy and my brother Ian and I were amongst the few passengers on board capable of doing proper justice to the excellent dinner provided . |
| 19 | ‘ Don and I were near the top , ’ Steve explains , ‘ but we just saw down in the snow and Don pulled out a bottle of booze . |
| 20 | ‘ And you were at the Houses . |
| 21 | ‘ So you were following me that first night , and you were in the Piazzale Roma to — ’ |
| 22 | so it shows that er , you know , the globe is warming up , even in Russia where I went , my mother , where I , where I was staying at er Dunyask , there was five metre snow sometimes in the , it , it came and it just blocked your windows , it blocked your doors and you were inside the house and you could n't get out |
| 23 | It was as we started our second run and we were at the lights at the corner of Portman Square , that I saw the cops had concentrated themselves on the traffic island in Baker Street . |
| 24 | Times were not good , we had basically clung to outdated ideas and we were on the verge of closing . |
| 25 | We chose the best of a not too brilliant bunch , made a ludicrous offer which to our astonishment was accepted , and we were on the road . |
| 26 | For I remember us doing a flipping er a family came to Wyre once and we were on the same old coble we were er doing the flipping and we thought we had nothing to do but take the rope off their heads and push them over the side of the coble onto the side of the small jetty . |
| 27 | It was my role to lead the squadron off and that night we were bound for somewhere in the Ruhr and we were on the short runway at Oakington . |
| 28 | Oh I 'm just sitting here having had a long , well erm I I 've just had a , a chat with Gillian who erm rang me up and we were on the phone for about half an hour I suppose , she 's some lucky girl ! |
| 29 | A total of six and a half hours and we were over the small , dying town of Wyndham . |
| 30 | Our canoes were loaded on the trailer and we were in the van and on our way by 7.30am for a 5 ½ hour drive to the Allagash Wilderness Waterway . |