Example sentences of "[verb] [be] in [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months .
2 When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead .
3 Could they have been in with the real Communist underground ? ’
4 The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century .
5 Because they 've been split between school , between young classes , my daughter 's been in with the eight year olds .
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