Example sentences of "was [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the stronger they were , the worse it was for them at the end of the picture . |
| 2 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 3 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 4 | So It was worth it for the w for the when the war came . |
| 5 | When she finally reached the top she agreed with a young couple from Leeds that it was worth it for the view , which was stupendous in spite of a slight heat haze that hung in the air . |
| 6 | As he opened his eyes and smiled at her strangely , she added , ‘ And it was worth it in the end . |
| 7 | The sound of the waking ducks was below him in the scrub and trees . |
| 8 | The green car was behind them on the pier , in the third line of queuing cars . |
| 9 | He was behind me in the queue . |
| 10 | Then his warm , naked body was against hers beneath the covers and this time everything was magically different . |
| 11 | ‘ I was against it from the first . |
| 12 | She was picturing her daughter , her beloved Angel , and as the pony stepped daintily over the cobbles she was counting the minutes until she was with her for the first time in nearly six months . |
| 13 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 14 | Mark escaped unscathed thanks to a fast-talking Indonesian who was with him on the expedition . |
| 15 | The ascent in 1865 was just a week before Whymper climbed the Matterhorn , Moore was partnered by Horace Walker , who , the same year , was with him on the first ascent of the Brenva Ridge on Mt Blanc , and by guide Jakob Anderegg . |
| 16 | His dad was with him at the race , but he could n't find him and gave the grenade to a marshal . |
| 17 | His aunt Miriam was with him at the time and she was showered in debris from the bomb . |
| 18 | The next thing he knew was that the girl with the lovely face was with him in the hut , holding his head in her arms . |
| 19 | You see , I was with him in the old days , before our ships were taken over by this horrible group . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , as I have said , I was with him in the great hall . |
| 21 | Ms Ang , a surgeon , volunteered to provide medical assistance to Palestinians and was with them during the Israeli invasion of West Beirut in 1982 . |
| 22 | A very young prison officer from Holloway was with me at the court . |
| 23 | McQuaid was a drunken blackguard who was with me in the war . |
| 24 | When he was with ye at the hacienda . ’ |
| 25 | The Corporal who was with us at the time , a new one detached from Orange , immediately awarded Mike 2,000 press-ups . |
| 26 | It was above me on the rocks , and then it sprang into the darkness behind me . |
| 27 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 28 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 29 | The example of Dad Uzzell was before him for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | Lucifer also could not be sure who was before him in the garden . |