Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " 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 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You were in the police car ? |
| 5 | Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’ |
| 6 | The car parks — Green , Blue , Orange and Red — were in the fields south and west of the course . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The titles of both episodes are also confused in the way they were on the Police Squad TV series . |
| 9 | While we were at the Clothes Show , we noticed some fabulous haircuts and even more exciting styling ideas . |
| 10 | Bernard 's original idea was for a 24″ tank next to the fire , but our series made him think again . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
| 17 | I was informed she was in the burns unit . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The great discovery , however , was in The Times index : ‘ Inquest on Katharine and Stephanie [ Primrose ] Compton-Burnett ’ . |
| 21 | The sale was in the sports pavilion and there was a small porch at the entrance . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | At this time , the payroll activity , with the exception of salaries and the London weekly payroll , was within the Finance Directorate reporting to site accountants whilst personnel was within the Personnel Directorate and reporting to Site Personnel Managers ( see figure 2 ) . |
| 27 | For instance , under the 1932 Act , the right of appeal ( on the ground that an advertisement did not injure the amenities of the area ) was to the magistrates court hardly an appropriate body for such a purpose . |
| 28 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |
| 29 | The table is believed to date from the 1930s and could have been given to the club by a local building firm , whose managing director was on the Quakers board . |
| 30 | He was on the Trades Council . |