Example sentences of "[was/were] in [art] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 You were in the police car ?
4 Do you know the American President and his adviser were in the malai capital at the time ? ’
5 The car parks — Green , Blue , Orange and Red — were in the fields south and west of the course .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain .
10 I was informed she was in the burns unit .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The great discovery , however , was in The Times index : ‘ Inquest on Katharine and Stephanie [ Primrose ] Compton-Burnett ’ .
14 The sale was in the sports pavilion and there was a small porch at the entrance .
15 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 . ’
16 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 .
17 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
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