Example sentences of "[pron] was in [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Obviously I should have provided more text than I did , but I suppose I was in rather a hurry . |
2 | While she — she was in quite a bargaining position . |
3 | Moreover , there was in both the Conservative and Labour Parties at this time a widespread mistrust and fear of Lloyd George . |
4 | In Oxfordshire the Stonesfield slate-pits and mines shut down one by one during the second half of the nineteenth century ; in Leicestershire the Swithland slate-quarries , which had been worked since Henry III 's time , shut down altogether in 1887 ; and so it was in nearly every county in England . |
5 | Everyone was in rather a hurry and I am always bad at catching people 's names . |