Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 2 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |
| 3 | When they were in the woods Tess turned to look at the house . |
| 4 | The effect of the new evidence from the two women was to suggest that the man who assaulted Miss Wilson was arrested an hour earlier , at 11:50pm , and that they were in the police station making their statements at about the time of the murder and the discovery of the body . |
| 5 | When we arrested people , if we arrested them and if they were in the police station for many hours , the only food that they were given was supplied by Weavers Restaurant , just inside Street . |
| 6 | You were in the police car ? |
| 7 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 8 | The car parks — Green , Blue , Orange and Red — were in the fields south and west of the course . |
| 9 | We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture . |
| 10 | The titles of both episodes are also confused in the way they were on the Police Squad TV series . |
| 11 | While we were at the Clothes Show , we noticed some fabulous haircuts and even more exciting styling ideas . |
| 12 | Bernard 's original idea was for a 24″ tank next to the fire , but our series made him think again . |
| 13 | His arguments for such a conclusion are , first , the narrow one that the appellant 's complaint of 15 July 1989 was about the police officers ' fabricating the interview notes — whereas the inquiry was principally into the possibility of their having , following his complaint , removed them from Warwick Crown Court . |
| 14 | While there were enough differences between police tactics in separate areas to demonstrate that individual police officers retained some control over police operations , the strong overall impression was of a police force subject to central direction by senior chief constables and Home Office officials along lines determined by the Cabinet . |
| 15 | Six goals … two penalties … a sending off … a carrying off … a touchline bust-up … the Manor Ground was like a fireworks factory on saturday as Denis Smith kicked off his reign as manager of Oxford United |
| 16 | Taff was with the 3″ mortar team as they continued to send over the occasional mortar bomb , their target a crossroads at the other end of the village . |
| 17 | I think he was in a munitions factory somewhere near Baghdad and the stress had certainly precipitated quite a serious heart condition and that was under a relatively peaceful situation , so if there was any sign of war out there that would obviously be tenfold . |
| 18 | Ajayi was in the games room still , hunkered over the small table in her furs , huge as a bear , perched on a small stool all but hidden beneath the furs and cloths which smothered her old frame . |
| 19 | The woman , who gave the name Bernadette , said from their home in Tulse Hill , south London : ‘ Before all this was in the papers John told me he had served Mr Lamont . |
| 20 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 21 | I was informed she was in the burns unit . |
| 22 | some friends at here , they er was in the woods line and er the gaffer , Ernie , we went through Little London School together , and he says anything we can do , anytime Richard , you 've only got ta say . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The great discovery , however , was in The Times index : ‘ Inquest on Katharine and Stephanie [ Primrose ] Compton-Burnett ’ . |
| 25 | The other article herewith was in the Times Ed last week and suggests that the Govt. will start to get heavy over the Tests if people do n't comply , and especially so if they are antagonistic . |
| 26 | The sale was in the sports pavilion and there was a small porch at the entrance . |
| 27 | The only one who spoke to me about it was a police officer when I was in the police station : ‘ Why is a young girl like you destroying yourself on this stuff . ’ |
| 28 | The trouble with Ben was , he still thought he was in the police force and was constantly leaving scribbled messages about procedures for patrolling the yard and checking the padlocks and bolts . |
| 29 | Yes , they 've got on quite well with the erm wall at the back , but there 's , Geoff 's got his car outside and the skip was in the police access road rather than ours |
| 30 | The principle that the courts will not interfere with any decision of a local authority relating to a child in its care save in the most exceptional circumstances relates to the law as it was before the Children Act 1989 . |