Example sentences of "was [prep] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was about the supporters ' campaign in the last |
| 2 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 3 | The Press enclosure was in the Members ' Stand and the scene around us was indescribable as the staid ‘ more English than the English ’ burghers of Adelaide and their wives stood up booing and shaking their fists . |
| 4 | His shop was in the merchants ' quarter of the city — a maze of buildings which had been divided and sub-divided , so great was the demand for space , which lay within the strictly enforced boundaries of the streets which radiated from the Golden Yurt like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 5 | Ruth was in the servants ' hall one day when he returned from yet another picnic . |
| 6 | The referee was on the Lions ' side in the first half , before finding that their style did not suit him . |
| 7 | Here I need mention only that my work at the Staff College and the Royal Military College in Baghdad put me under suspicion of espionage , and that had the pro-Nazi rebellion of Raschid Ali of May 1941 ( during which I was given protection in the American Embassy ) been successful , I should have fared badly , as it was surmised much later that I was on the rebels ' hit list . |
| 8 | His name was on the voters ' list as occupying Moat Hall , the small mansion Burden had found deserted , but plainly he had left it months before . |
| 9 | It was at the menders ' yesterday . |
| 10 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
| 11 | Her time was at the delegates ' disposal . |
| 12 | Sister Robinson was at the nurses ' station , talking to one of the first-year nurses , when Juliet arrived back on the ward . |
| 13 | I was at the Combeses ' yesterday , and the Hammonds were there . |
| 14 | The major leak erm was at the Scouts ' hut , where erm the , the building was actually putting pressure upon the water main , and er causing a leak . |
| 15 | But the swirling breeze was at the hunters ' backs , and the big bull suddenly lifted his muzzle to scent in their direction , and a moment later the whole herd was running towards the shelter of the trees . |
| 16 | In half ( 11 cases ) this was at the patients ' request because of poor function . |