Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir , how come you were behind us in the corridor and now you 're in front of us here ? ’ |
| 2 | The grown-ups were above her in the stairwell . |
| 3 | You who were with me in the ships at Mylae ! ' |
| 4 | You were with her in the days and weeks that led up to it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And God remembered Noah , the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the Ark . |
| 7 | God remembered Noah , the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the Ark . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | When I came back from fishing yesterday you were beside me in the lean-to gutting the catch with me . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As he opened his eyes and smiled at her strangely , she added , ‘ And it was worth it in the end . |
| 13 | The sound of the waking ducks was below him in the scrub and trees . |
| 14 | He was behind me in the queue . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , as I have said , I was with him in the great hall . |
| 18 | McQuaid was a drunken blackguard who was with me in the war . |
| 19 | Lucifer also could not be sure who was before him in the garden . |
| 20 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |
| 21 | But it is certainly possible , at least , that he survived the Cross — if , indeed , it was he who was on it in the first place , rather than the substitute claimed by the Koran and by many early heresies . |
| 22 | Hazel stamped , and a few moments later Dandelion was beside him in the bracken . |