Example sentences of "was [adv] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first interview half the carers said they would prefer the sufferer to be in institutional care , and it was overwhelmingly from among these who wanted the sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home for the year were to be found . |
| 2 | Joe could n't be sure without checking , but he thought that the street was somewhere outside of Soho proper and bordering on the fringe of Chinatown . |
| 3 | Jeff was obviously on at least a second drink . |
| 4 | And indeed it would seem that it was only at about this time , in the Europe of the late-sixteenth century , that a few thoughtful men first began to think seriously about the moral nature of mankind as a whole , as against the older , narrower concept of the moral nature of " ourselves " , God 's chosen people , ranged against " the others " , the barbarians , who were only part men , unnatural monsters , beasts . |
| 5 | The steppe frontier from the Urals to the Altai was thus by no means ‘ open ’ to the Russians . |
| 6 | I we had a under-manager come , he come from somewhere down Staffordshire way and y you you 've talked about Tweedledum and Tweedledee , they used to call him Biffy he was just like like one of them . |
| 7 | Although vengeance had been wreaked on the assassins in Edinburgh , that was still by no means the main administrative centre . |
| 8 | It was more like in the direction of the school . |
| 9 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 10 | It was also at about this time that a friend of Charlotte ( whom I met at a party ) commented on how much better Charlotte was looking — considering the circumstances . |
| 11 | It was also at about this time that further investment was made from the school 's capitation , with a teletext receiver being installed . |
| 12 | If one goes far enough back in United Kingdom constitutional history , one comes to a time when neither Lords nor Commons existed as such and when indeed , it was often by no means certain where the Crown should reside . |
| 13 | And er I think i we thought from that well why not set up a women 's support group and er see what the reaction was really from from the women you know and an I and we said in that lodge meeting will you ask everybody all the women that you know that er are involved , the friends the girlfriends and wives , to come along the next Tuesday and we 'd have a meeting of our own . |
| 14 | Lydia had always collected curious specimens for her parties , frequently foreign : South Africans who could tell her what it was really like over there , Nigerians in brilliant robes , an Asian boy with almond eyes who had stayed for a month until Gerald heard the scurrilous talk and kicked him out . |
| 15 | It was mainly from among those with a principal carer who wanted the dementia sufferer to remain at home that those who did remain at home were to be found ( if one excludes those who died or moved away , and compares place of care for those whose principal carer said initially that he or she preferred home or institutional care the difference between the two groups is significant at the 0.001 level ) . |
| 16 | I was here from half-past two . |
| 17 | Er , which er I suppose I was there for for six years . |
| 18 | ‘ He was there for at least two days and possibly longer before anyone looked up to see him . ’ |
| 19 | I was there for about a couple of years and then I moved in into Nottingham on traff on the Traffic Department , you know the people that wear the white hats and , and do people for speeding . |
| 20 | But by that time er we were n't there very long and the war finished and I was there in for a year after that in , in er Germany . |
| 21 | At the beginning of September the United Kingdom currency stood near its effective permitted ERM floor against the deutschmark of £1.00=DM2.778 ; the Italian lira was likewise at around its ERM floor of L765.4=DM1.00 . |
| 22 | She was previously with as a pensions consultant . |
| 23 | But I think I resented them both for the same reason , that is , that something was happening to me , or rather to my body , which was completely outside of my own control . |