Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 2 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 3 | All over Orkney during the time the children were away from their homes , prayers were said for them in churches of all denominations and at prayer meetings , and despite the torment they went through , none of the parents ' faiths wavered . |
| 4 | ‘ I know the words he came out with were those of other people , the writers , but they were written with him in mind . |
| 5 | were turned to him in profile : |
| 6 | ‘ The newsboys were shouting about it in the street , ’ |
| 7 | They were built with me in mind and I liked them and got a couple from Fender . |
| 8 | But in my case an exception was made , and girls from the year below mine were moved above me in House Order , as well as being made monitors who had special privileges . |
| 9 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 10 | Amplification wise , I use two Ampeg SVTs that were made for me in 1987 as part of the company 's ‘ Artist ’ series , and there were only five hundred of those made . |
| 11 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 12 | Bankruptcy proceedings appear to have been taken against the plaintiffs by B.M.T. Receiving orders were made against them in the county court but , on appeal , these orders were , it is said , rescinded on terms which are not stated but which are said to have been fulfilled . |
| 13 | Beatrix Potter 's own sketches of the city were used by her in her books . |
| 14 | Further works at Westminster Palace were entrusted to him in April 1346 , and included the final stages of St Stephen 's chapel , and he was to impress masons and carpenters for Edward III 's expedition against France . |
| 15 | And however hard she tried to hide her intentions from Nils they were emblazoned around her in the electric blue of panic over the iridium crown of Steel City in the night . |
| 16 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 17 | they were waiting for her in the old house : Louise , her mother , her aunt Bella and her grandmother , Irena . |
| 18 | All the same she was mortified to discover on returning much later to the apartment that the detested clothes were waiting for her in her room . |
| 19 | Realizing that not only Mrs Whittaker , but twelve newly arrived first-year students , were waiting for her in expectant silence , she pulled herself together . |
| 20 | They were waiting for her in Miami , if she ever got back there . |
| 21 | The rest of the party were waiting for us in a courtyard full of yapping dogs ; long , lean greyhounds , black , white and brindled . |
| 22 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 23 | Speechlessly Fabia stared at him , and he went on to explain , ‘ Then last night , after a sublime day , we went out to dine and I began to admit to myself that you were getting to me in a big way . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ There are many people who think that water has no taste , ’ I said , ‘ because we were born with it in our mouths and it 's been there ever since . ’ |
| 25 | It had different results for various sections in the community , but all were affected by it in some way , either directly or indirectly . |
| 26 | And they were coming at him in a concerted three-pronged attack . |
| 27 | Ershad had been deposed and arrested in December 1990 [ see p. 37906-07 ] ; formal charges were brought against him in January 1991 [ see p. 37965 ] , and he was committed for trial on March 19 . |
| 28 | ‘ They were found with him in the pond . ’ |
| 29 | Lands to the value of 300 marks were found for him in England , but half the endowment was found by persuading Guy de Blois , another French hostage , to surrender to Edward the County of Soissons , worth 500 marks a year , which Edward then granted to the new Earl of Bedford . |
| 30 | Both his neighbours at table were staring at him in shocked alarm , knocked clean out of words , and that in itself was an achievement . |