Example sentences of "and [det] [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then they carried the remains across the fields to the Lady Kirkyard and that was past the school and I can remember us watching this procession going across the fields . |
| 2 | He was a dredgerman yes , see he was on the river first then he went on the dredger and course that 's before my time and that was during the First World War he was on he was at Ramsgate . |
| 3 | but you see er , yes that 's right and then of course I 'm , since then I was up at Cambridge and that was during the second year |
| 4 | You see , and of course when I was at Cambridge , you see , and that was during the Second World War , well of course , you see , I remember seeing a plane because of course the station was a prime target |
| 5 | Keep one end dry and the other end wet , my father advised me , and that was about the measure of it . |
| 6 | Until the the play centre was actually opened and that was towards the end of the life of the flats really . |
| 7 | In the campaign itself there was one awkward moment and that was on the issue of private health . |
| 8 | And that was on the corner of er er Road and Street at . |
| 9 | Butchers and er then there was the butchers and that was on the corner of and er and and then cross over there towards Street you 've got the stores , then you come the , the er drapers , then er Tommy the butcher who was my first wife 's uncle and then you come to a shop which was owned by one or two people , which was a sort of er general store and then my mother-in-law 's shop a cook 's which was |
| 10 | And that was on the house ? |
| 11 | And my brothers both went to er , a headmaster from the high school set up on his own and they both went there , and that was at the corner of Avenue on Road . |
| 12 | Once only was I able to talk to Hayward de vive voix , and that was at the Institute of Contemporary Arts , when I referred again to the housekeeper problem ; but in the end , for reasons that I do not know , our Greek candidate , who might have been an admirable choice , was not summoned for interview . |
| 13 | We had one more day trip by boat before we left Praslin , and that was to the island of La Digue to try and see the black paradise flycatcher . |
| 14 | And that was to the horse ? |
| 15 | Mr Clarke told TUFL there were many voices in Scotland claiming that the Scottish economy had managed to avoid the recession and that was to the credit of the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , and his fellow ministers . |
| 16 | Well how much ? well I think it is Pat , that 's why I asked because Angela was saying some er it was gon na be nine pound and that was with the well I think I 'll have |
| 17 | and that was with the doors from Texas and he thought oh no you know |
| 18 | Only in one respect was any real money spent on Doctor Who , and that was for the TARDIS set in Episode One , the cost of which was spread out anyway throughout the rest of the season . |
| 19 | The pay was fifteen shillings a day then , and that was for the horse , cart and man . |
| 20 | The counselling development worker , Fiona McRae , adds : ‘ When we started there was only one other agency offering counselling that was completely free , and that was for the whole of Edinburgh . |
| 21 | And he could n't do it , because , the pair of them , I mean , that was , that business was supporting his mother as well and between them , after they 'd paid for the petrol , they were taking in less than a hundred pounds a week and that was for the two of them . |
| 22 | And that was for the |
| 23 | And that was including the very worst possible scenario of disasters she could devise . |
| 24 | Nothing no I 've seen the bread coming out on a Monday morning warm and landed at from the big houses and that was before the days of the cooling of the bread . |
| 25 | And that was after the blues finished . |
| 26 | ‘ That bore nearly killed me recently , and that was in the estuary at Purton . |
| 27 | Even the dog was asleep , and that was in the first five minutes . |
| 28 | Only in Namibia , did treaty reasoning come to the fore , and that was in the context of termination of the Mandate by the General Assembly for material breach , when it was desired to establish a new legal regime over the territory . |
| 29 | We know very precisely the age at the top of the coral when it was uplifted and died and what we 've done is counted these bands back through hundreds of years , back to the time when the coral first started growing and that was in the year fifteen eighty three . |
| 30 | And that was in the splitting job where you was handling skins , sheep skins . |