Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] was [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised that I was in a good position , I had a little bit of work , which fitted in with my family life . |
| 2 | The format of the interview was that I was in a single chair placed to the side of a panel of six sitting in two rows . |
| 3 | I have never felt so much that I was in a foreign country with seemingly infinite resources available for any purpose you care to name , from stretch automobiles to space travel . |
| 4 | Feeling deliciously convalescent , I pottered about in pyjamas , weak yet fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house where I could be waited on , and had no appointments of any kind . |
| 5 | It was the day I had taken my last exam in my finals so I was on a high anyway . |
| 6 | ‘ Six million if you do n't mind , ’ was Christy Turlington 's reply to designer Valentino 's suggestion that she was worth a million dollars . |
| 7 | At a party in Soho in 1914 Epstein was talking to Beatrice , who made it clear that she was at a loose end in her life . |
| 8 | Afraid to move , she became aware that she was in a strange room , in a bed . |
| 9 | It had suddenly borne in upon her that it was almost midnight and that she was in a strange flat in a strange city , with a strange man who was plying her with champagne . |
| 10 | Sitting up with a groan , she saw that she was in a small motor launch , approaching a wall into which a flight of stone steps had been built . |
| 11 | In any other circumstances , Fabia felt that she might have been a trace worried — it was n't every day that she was in a foreign land , with a foreign male who , having fed her , tried his hand at seducing her . |
| 12 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 13 | Well aware that she was in a public place , she tried to modify her voice ; only then Willis did n't always hear , and she had to try again a good deal louder . |
| 14 | But once she was on a downward incline she could only run faster and faster , squawking with fury as she lost her balance , till she tripped over and fell in a tumble of feathers and feet . |
| 15 | Although it was at a high altitude and windswept , she created at Bankshead a garden full of her favourite wild flowers , which were a source of inspiration both for her painting and her writing . |
| 16 | God knows I tried when I realised what was happening to us , although it was like a starving man walking away from food for me . |
| 17 | Rare coloured propaganda photographs suggest that it was of a warm mid-brown shade . |
| 18 | By 1984 , Fibres had moved through the period of mere survival to realize that it was on a winning track and could expand , guided by some astute marketing of some of the exciting new products then coming through . |
| 19 | Most of all , if opposition batsman would like to get out ( the dollier the catch the better ) they can start the long walk to the pavilion in the knowledge that it was in a good cause , and not just that of Barney cricket . |
| 20 | Before that it was in a similar condition to the cottage next door which has the original entrance to the spa . |
| 21 | If you were to see an adult goat jump like this , it would usually mean that it was in a desperate situation . |
| 22 | I told the patient that it was in a treacherous position and an operation would be risky . ’ |
| 23 | The old woman was gypsy brown , the tan so shiny on the mild skin that it was like a fresh varnish . |
| 24 | In many ways the consulting arm of GROVE PROJECTS is stronger as a specialist engineering and surveying consultancy than it was as a multi-discipline practice . |
| 25 | These days line is , in some cases , less than half the diameter than it was for a given breaking strain . |
| 26 | It is said that he was of a delicate constitution in early life , and was accordingly placed in the care of his uncle , Mr Greener of Hallgarth , near Winlaton . |
| 27 | In The fire of Love Rolle emphasises the joyful aspects of his experience and his excitable , intense religiosity gives the reader the impression that he was on a perpetual — even a manic — ‘ high ’ . |
| 28 | But she could not see all the way , it was feasible that he was on a lower flight and she would come face to face with him . |
| 29 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 30 | . I decided that I did not want to stay until the moment of his death , I wanted to remember him living … but I decided that I wanted to stay just to ensure that he was in a deep peaceful sleep , that he was n't going to suffer … and that 's what I did . |