Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 2 | It is easy to have an opinion about a moral issue like capital punishment , but if you were to discuss it in an essay you would usually have to give your reasons . |
| 3 | The situation arising from this all-too-common attitude was as follows : in the evening she was placing herself in a situation of maximum temptation as far as diet-breaking was concerned with time on her hands and food and drink all too readily available . |
| 4 | The lecherous Cohn once used his intercom to address an embarrassed starlet when he asked her if she was keeping herself in a state of sexual readiness for him . |
| 5 | She probably imagined she was comporting herself in an attractively provocative and feminine fashion , thought Lydia , sneering and lengthening her stride . |
| 6 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 7 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 8 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 9 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 10 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 11 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 12 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 13 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |