Example sentences of "[was/were] in the [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 | 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 . |
8 | I was in the hills north of Achnashellach recently on a day of low cloud and smirry rain . |
9 | I was informed she was in the burns unit . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | The great discovery , however , was in The Times index : ‘ Inquest on Katharine and Stephanie [ Primrose ] Compton-Burnett ’ . |
13 | The sale was in the sports pavilion and there was a small porch at the entrance . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 |