Example sentences of "was in [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Agnes FCJ was in Sierra Leone , before she was forced to flee and it was Joseph and his friend who helped her at the time . |
| 2 | Anne had told us it was in Cork Street , Roseau , and had been converted into a sleazy guest-house . |
| 3 | Well , I was trying to sleep when I was in bed bed . |
| 4 | I was in bed Saturday |
| 5 | The power to make orders for the ‘ preservation ’ of property has been used in the context of the transfer of the mortgage of land by a mentally disordered person , even though the land was in Monte Carlo . |
| 6 | Former British formula 1 driver John Watson , now a commentator for Eurosport , said : ‘ The last time I saw him was in Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix where he was staying on a boat in the harbour . |
| 7 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 8 | Sounds like you 're saying you caught me sulking or something like that no have you not seen it , he was in Inspector Morse as well . |
| 9 | But I myself , when I was in London years ago , did wrong with a woman I hardly knew . |
| 10 | Some of the growth in service employment was in state provision outside the market , notably in the form of the welfare state ( chapter 9 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ She was in school uniform but she made such an impact on me I nearly burst my tyres driving along the pavement , ’ Sarah says . |
| 12 | It drives us directly from foundationalism ( for it was in foundationalist terms that the argument was formulated ) to the most interesting form of solipsism , the view that you must take yourself to be the only subject of experience — in fact the subject of experience — since you can have no conception of another such . |
| 13 | But the funniest part about it was in King George 's playing fields where the cricket club is at the beginning of the war that was a A R P assembly point for the A R P wardens . |
| 14 | Yet the more open-ended view of science was in principle present in Freud 's outlook . |
| 15 | For example , there was a chap I knew who was in Simon House and the rules of the house are that you 've got to stay off the drink , and unfortunately he had a slip and went back on it . |
| 16 | Almost two-thirds of the increase in the volume of imports last year was in capital goods , intermediate goods and semi-finished manufactures . |
| 17 | Sergeant Geoff Newitt , a member of the Royal Army Medical Corps , was in Sarajevo helping protect UN forces when the attack happened . |
| 18 | He would make occasional forays into the United States or films , but Lynn 's only real home was in Aldwych farces as part of the Travers team which ran triumphantly into the 1930s , and he stayed with them , creating and recreating the role of the silly ass forever working his way out of impossible situations , often armed with nothing more than the famous monocle , a daft grin , and an apparently inexhaustible ability to triumph over adversity by the sheer idiocy of his own imagination . |
| 19 | The basic problem is still , as it was in Lord Leverhulme 's day , lack of industrial employment , or employment in the service industries within reach of the crofts . |
| 20 | From 1846 until 1852 he was in Lord John Russell 's cabinet as postmaster-general . |
| 21 | The chief reason for this visit happening at all is that the Soviet Union wants it to ; Soviet Foreign Minister , Edouard Sheverdnaze was in North Korea , putting pressure on his fellow Communists to reform ; the Soviets are fed up with subsidizing them and anyhow , want economic help from the capitalists in South Korea . |
| 22 | I see I thought it was in North Shields . |
| 23 | You will see flour being milled here just as it was in Captain Cook 's day . |
| 24 | They police say their action was in self defence and justified . |
| 25 | Usually he was in camouflage smock and holding an A.K. at the hip , and would probably have knocked half his pelvis off from the recoil if he had fired at that angle . |
| 26 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 27 | The entrance was in Paynes Hill and doubtless this well designed building had started life as a Merchants house . |
| 28 | In addition , Thresher insiders are questioning the authenticity of the till receipt produced on November 30 , which purports to prove beyond doubt that Mr Lamont was in Connaught Street on a Sunday evening . |
| 29 | ‘ I was in landscape gardening , pools and patios , ’ said Ken Corduroy , who had heavy hornrimmed glasses and the soft , urgent voice of a salesman . |
| 30 | But it was in Colchester Park that I had my first lesson in conservation in microcosm , if you like . |