Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Good taste ’ , ingenuity , intelligence , and energy — the sharply honed attributes of the would-be successful survivor — all were as nought in the absence of one other ingredient : hard cash , and lots of it . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , how come you were behind us in the corridor and now you 're in front of us here ? ’ |
| 3 | The grown-ups were above her in the stairwell . |
| 4 | You who were with me in the ships at Mylae ! ' |
| 5 | You were with her in the days and weeks that led up to it . |
| 6 | cattle were with him in the Ark , and God made the wind blow , is it upon , upon the earth and waters and the fountains the windows of heavens were opened . |
| 7 | And God remembered Noah , the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the Ark . |
| 8 | God remembered Noah , the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the Ark . |
| 9 | ‘ We are toasting missing colleagues who were with us in the buffet and who would have preferred us to do it this way , instead of being sombre , ’ said Mr Christopher Reeves , a consultant engineer who joined the train at Southampton Parkway station . |
| 10 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 11 | After one minute the children were round it in a circle , laughing and playing with it , just like the humans in the Star Zoo . |
| 12 | AU eyes were on her in a bright red cretonne two-piece and Normandy satin hat with wide frill . |
| 13 | Now , as she came back to the present , Lady Merchiston 's own eyes were on her in a compelling look , demanding an answer . |
| 14 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 15 | When I came back from fishing yesterday you were beside me in the lean-to gutting the catch with me . |
| 16 | They were at it in the house , then in Felstead 's car on the way to the Club , all the time he was away from the bar . |
| 17 | At a public meeting last September he suggested that saying ‘ they ought to do something about it ’ was pointless , and boldly proposed that the only way to save the shop was for everyone in the village to club together and buy it . |
| 18 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 19 | As he opened his eyes and smiled at her strangely , she added , ‘ And it was worth it in the end . |
| 20 | The sound of the waking ducks was below him in the scrub and trees . |
| 21 | He was behind me in the queue . |
| 22 | Then the one that runs the quarry to us , he 's well he 's worse only he was behind it in a way , he had he was the one with the brains , he was the one that new how to get the men to work for nothing . |
| 23 | She was like him in a lot of ways . |
| 24 | I made him undo my hands , he was like someone in a trance , and then I undressed him and I undressed myself . |
| 25 | The next thing he knew was that the girl with the lovely face was with him in the hut , holding his head in her arms . |
| 26 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , as I have said , I was with him in the great hall . |
| 28 | She was with me in no time , and while she and a neighbour carried Nigel to his bed , I phoned the doctor , who arrived very soon . |
| 29 | McQuaid was a drunken blackguard who was with me in the war . |
| 30 | You know her , Betty , the lively one ; she was into everythin' in the yard here . ’ |