Example sentences of "was [adv prt] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well Morse was on at the same time . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Markham , the youngest Cumbermound boy , was up at the same time and they and the Bishop 's son , Thomas , formed something of a set . |
| 3 | The debtor was prima facie in the wrong and the creditor in the right , and it was up to the former to extricate himself from the charge to which he had laid himself open . |
| 4 | He even tried sneaking back to the library at night , thinking the Bookman might appear after dark , but had to stop this when he backed into Mr Crangle , who was up to the same thing . |
| 5 | It was back to the same old theme . |
| 6 | Here she felt lonely and depressed , as it seemed as if she 'd made no progress and was back in the same vicious circle again . |
| 7 | Just an hour later he was back in the same court to give evidence against three men accused of trying to murder him . |
| 8 | Daniele Audetto was out of the same mould as Luca , but his job was now infinitely more delicate and difficult . |
| 9 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |