Example sentences of "[subord] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had not got where he was at the age of thirty-three by giving way to pointless speculation and neurotic inner enquiry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 18 | ‘ I think he was better casting than I was for the part . |
| 19 | The thing is , it 's a vicious circle , it 's Catch 22 really , 'cos I used to have a good self-employed business , going painting and decorating and I used to have a good clientele and that and I found over the years that , when it became harder and harder to score and the prices rocketed and all that , it got out of hand , out of proportion , that I was spending more and more time off the job than I was on the job , looking round to get the stuff and I found I was unable to carry on working without the drug , because I just felt so bad and I could n't climb ladders and I thought I was a danger to myself and anybody else that I had working with me , y'know . |
| 20 | At the end of this fourth volume , I am still not certain whether I have been reading about a great man , any more than I was at the end of the third volume , or the second , or the first . |
| 21 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 22 | I 've never been soooo pissed off at a game than I was at the rangers game at Elland Road . |
| 23 | I knew though that they 'd work it out in the end so I was on the look-out for a new job . |
| 24 | The pilot sat in front so I was in the back on my own . |
| 25 | Once I was aboard the Mary of Westminster and facing the terrors of the Narrow Seas , I put the matter aside . |
| 26 | ‘ After that , I did n't have so many problems once I was in the lead . ’ |
| 27 | ( 1 ) Although she was under the influence of the painkilling pethidine , she had not lost her mental faculties and she was sufficiently alert , though tired , to be able to understand the questions asked of her and to answer them comprehensively and comprehendingly . |
| 28 | Although she was in the front row and next to the window , leg room was cramped and there was no champagne on ice on the eight-hour flight . |
| 29 | In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning . |
| 30 | Now the old problem arose again : she found herself in new places and she was more interested in exploring them thoroughly than she was in the chick , even though she was at flying weight . |