Example sentences of "was in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 2 | He was in a bit of a state , I could n't believe it . |
| 3 | He told them to leave her be , she was in a better state to understand him than anyone else there . |
| 4 | Sir Vivien 's mashie niblick was in a bunker approximately forty yards from the hole . ’ |
| 5 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 6 | I was in a familiar world and I was able to explain to Jenny how everything was done . |
| 7 | I was in a numbered uniform of massive symbolic importance with nuances of style which clearly defined our social identity . |
| 8 | Before you get the idea that such a bias occurs only in national competitions , I would like to point out that the worse case of this I ever saw was in a world championship . |
| 9 | Cameron wanted time to think ; he was in a turmoil of emotions ; he felt for Sandy 's grievance even while he was blenching at the man 's mad certainty that a day of reckoning was near . |
| 10 | Donald and Jean had disappeared and Mary was in a black mood , striding along and making old Donald gasp . |
| 11 | You are to come now. , He concentrated on positioning his shoulder so that it was in a cave formed by a fold of the stiff , harsh blanket , untouched by it . |
| 12 | On the third day Susan received a letter from him in which he explained that he was in a clinic for marioc addicts , ‘ Not that I could be called an addict , ’ he wrote , ‘ and this place is more of a health farm , really . ’ |
| 13 | I was in a hurry . ’ |
| 14 | But it was in a different place ! |
| 15 | So I jumped in , eloquently I thought , to second Niall 's resolution , to be released to the press if agreed : that the Labour Party should make annual contributions to the IRA — Yes I did - I was in a wonderful whirl , you see , the whole ant-heap had suddenly become vivid , and , um , deconstructable ; I forgot Wat Tyler and Keir Hardie , and saw rich and poor as it all is today , internationally struggling , the classes — well , you could n't understand … |
| 16 | Chicago was in a state of siege in the aftermath of the Haymarket trial . |
| 17 | This was in a period when I was based at Llandudno and every available minute of spare time was spent in climbing and scrambling among those delightful hills . |
| 18 | Nevertheless he was in a festering condition , and the murder did induce a crisis . |
| 19 | Significantly , this was in a review mostly concerned to deplore Eliot 's influence on poetic style . |
| 20 | In Dortmund a 56-year-old man , apparently an even more extreme right-winger , was in a critical condition after being kicked and pelted with bottles by left-wingers . |
| 21 | Three months into the therapy she began to suffer severe psychological traumas — she says she was in a state of constant terror . |
| 22 | One of the victims was in a critical condition , suffering from severe burns , but the other three were allowed home after treatment for shock . |
| 23 | The growth of third parties in the Seventies and early Eighties was in a large part a product of the malfunctioning of the two-party system , partly as a consequence of Mrs Thatcher 's rejection of the post-war consensus but chiefly as a result of Labour 's leftward lurches . |
| 24 | When he was in a production the overall power was somehow raised . |
| 25 | A GIRL aged two was in a critical but stable condition last night after undergoing a 10-hour liver transplant operation at Addenbrooke 's Hospital , Cambridge . |
| 26 | The guy says he was in a hurry to get home because he has to get up at six tomorrow morning because he 's donating some of his bone marrow so that his sister can have a bone marrow transplant … |
| 27 | Taff was in a foul mood as I jumped down into the trench . |
| 28 | One dead soldier was in a sitting position , his back against a wall , his head leaning backwards with the eyes staring and mouth hanging open , his blonde hair matted and covered with blood . |
| 29 | If a family held a small amount of land and was in a village with a large number of households , its strips could be so small and scattered that too much time was spent in travelling between strips . |
| 30 | The local peasant press was in a lamentable condition still . |