Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Tuckett was at the wheel and obviously the family business was doing OK . |
| 2 | We were on the green for five shots , and Mr Lu was on the side of the green for two . |
| 3 | Whereas Mr Sourrouille was on the whole a free-marketeer , Mr Pugliese thinks the state should play a bigger role in the economy ; he did not say how . |
| 4 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 5 | Mr Chan was in the passenger seat and behind him was Steve . |
| 6 | Mr Sugden was at the pub , avoiding the necessity for sympathy . |
| 7 | At nine o'clock he and the transient education officer were still sitting in the ante-room reading old copies of Country Life when the mess sergeant came in to say Mr Sims was on the phone . |
| 8 | Yet I gather that Mr Muggeridge was around the school in the grounds tonight . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Yeltsin telephoned Mr Gorbachev and 90 minutes later Mr Yavlinsky and Mr Primakov were in the president 's office . |
| 10 | Mr Hussey was at the meeting . |
| 11 | Mr Hussey was at the meeting . |
| 12 | It was Christmas week ( whether this time of the year had any significance or not can not be explained ) and Mr Hayden was in the staff mess room writing up the log book . |
| 13 | Mr Malik was in the middle of a group crowded round Mafouz . |
| 14 | TODAY has also discovered how Thresher went to extraordinary lengths to stop anyone apart from its own senior management and security staff proving conclusively whether or not Mr Lamont was in the Praed Street store on November 16 . |
| 15 | Mr Delors was at the London School of Economics , less than a mile away , delivering a lecture . |
| 16 | While Mr Siddle was at the works stores Mr Eaton was seen by crane Driver Alfred Walker , of Holmes Close , Thornaby , lying underneath the pipe using burning equipment when the pipe moved down trapping him . |
| 17 | Mr Symington was on the board of a savings and loan , as Mr Goddard 's advertisements allege , but he resigned in 1984 when the thrift was still in good shape . |
| 18 | Me and Mr Dysart were in the kitchen and Morpurgo was in the garden when it 'appened . |
| 19 | Mr McDaid was at the centre of another controversy in November 1991 when he was appointed Minister of Defence by the then Taoiseach , Charles Haughey . |
| 20 | The jury was told that Mr Johnson was on the door when the four arrived at his party at about three am . |
| 21 | Mr Sargent was in the next door garden , sitting in a deck chair and reading the newspaper . |
| 22 | When Oscar found him , Mr Jones was on the verge of dying from hypothermia . |
| 23 | Around lunchtime Mr Jones was on the line . |
| 24 | Mr Major was in the city to open new buildings at Oriel College and he also went on an impromtu walkabout , meeting people in the city centre . |
| 25 | ‘ You and Mr Tambiah were in the Cathedral at two thirty this morning having ’ — he glanced at his notes in disbelief — ‘ rowed across from the wherry , Amy Roy ? ’ |
| 26 | Like the others , Mr Minnah was of the Mende tribe , and an associate of the previous president , Dr Siaka Stevens . |
| 27 | Mr Gilks was in the buffet car when the crash occurred . |
| 28 | Mr Mayhew was at the scene of the latest bombing outrage in Magherafelt earlier today to see the carnage at first hand . |
| 29 | Mr Wolski was among the group of keepers who first saw the escaped golden eagle . |
| 30 | Before Mr Townsend was off the life support machine 3 men were in custody . |