Example sentences of "and [noun prp] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silas and Matt were at the table before her . |
| 2 | When Jack and Alison were in the house together by day they were in the studio ( where Jack was supposed to be teaching Alison to paint ) or else in the drawing room , often watching television . |
| 3 | DeFreitas and Lewis were struggling with muscle stiffness , Smith and Stewart were in the wars from close fielding , and Reeve , picked ahead of the extra batsman Ramprakash for just such a position , was off the field all day with food poisoning . |
| 4 | Leeds possed this at the beginning of the season when Batts , Speed , Macca and Strach were on the field . |
| 5 | Purcell , Haydn and Schubert were among the many who derived most of their basic musical training from being apprenticed as choristers . |
| 6 | In Somerset , for example , they showed by the evidence of Domesday that Dulverton and Winford were of the ‘ ancient demesne ’ of the Crown of England , and therefore ought to remain in Exmoor Forest , according to the provisions of the Charter . |
| 7 | Martha and Tilda were in the position of having no spending money , but this was less important when they were not attending school and were spared the pains of comparison , and they felt no bitterness against their mother , because she had n't any either . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't like to seem stuffy friend , but if Bonanza and Mahoney were on the outs I would know it . |
| 9 | Ho responded immediately to this newspaper article by proposing various measures which might lead to a return to normality and to the hopeful provisions of the modus vivendi , not least an end to the press and radio incitements from both sides , but whether at this stage Ho and Blum were in the saddle or not , things were beginning to fall apart . |
| 10 | LIVERPOOL and Arsenal were among the disappointed clubs yesterday when Andy Awford signed a new contract at Portsmouth . |
| 11 | Margaret and Dickie were in the garden playing badminton when Mr Remington-Hart rang up and asked to speak to my aunt . |
| 12 | perhaps it was at this time that a clerk associated with the rebel Poitevins produced a document designed to show that Henry and Eleanor were within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and their marriage therefore invalid . |
| 13 | Manager Alan Murray , assistant manager Eddie Kyle and McAndrew were at the Northern League club at the same time . |
| 14 | Jo-Ann and Maximilian and Willoughby were across the room , where visitors always sat . |
| 15 | Drilling operations had meanwhile been shifted to the south , and oil was finally struck in Masjid-i-Suleiman on 26 May 1908 , just as D'Arcy and Burmah were on the point of giving up . |
| 16 | The vital role ( which contemporaries fully appreciated ) played by such relatively small ports as Le Crotoy , at the mouth of the river Somme , in the period 1420–50 , together with the fact that the ports of Dieppe and Harfleur were among the first places to be snatched from English control in 1435 ( leaving them with Cherbourg as the only port from which they could maintain regular links with England between 1435 and 1440 , a vital period in the military history of the occupation ) , shows how important the Burgundian connection was to both main protagonists as they struggled to acquire and maintain a measure of control over the sea . |
| 17 | Benny and Eve were in the window of Healy 's Hotel practising having cups of coffee so that they would look well accustomed to it when they got to the Dublin coffee houses . |
| 18 | When me and Frank were in the in Lo in London we got about fifty of these bloody E mail catalogue come in the same address . |
| 19 | In the camp of the Elf army Aenarion and Caledor were in the midst of their last great argument when fatal news was brought to Aenarion . |
| 20 | And suddenly Tuppe and Cornelius were in the thick of them . |
| 21 | Killion and Woodruffe were in the cab with him . |
| 22 | ( c ) La Conspiration , written in 1937 and 1938 , was produced at a moment of co-operative cultural politics when the consequences of the Popular Front experiences in both France and Spain were to the fore . |
| 23 | One Sunday afternoon , on the thirteenth of February , Bathsheba and Liddy were in the sitting-room together . |
| 24 | And then at last everyone was shuffling chairs on the pile carpet and getting up and there was a lot of shaking of hands and Edward and Helen were in the lift once more , smoothly and silently descending . |
| 25 | Now and Robert were in the front room sharing a room , and uncle Jonathan had his own room upstairs and there was a little bathroom up there . |
| 26 | Farms in the South-West region and sewage works in the North-West and Midlands were among the main offenders . |
| 27 | Delegates from Slovenia and Croatia were against the broadening of state powers , while the Serbian party members supported the position for a stronger federation . |
| 28 | Sheila and Mona were at the convent secondary school , Michael was finishing national school . |
| 29 | Uncle Vernon and Lily were in the audience . |
| 30 | The USSR , Brazil , New Zealand , Australia , and Canada were among the nations with lower population density . |