Example sentences of "be in some " in BNC.

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1 You 're in some kind of spiritual trouble .
2 If you 're in some kind of jam with the law , I might not get paid .
3 So if I short er short circuit the rest of my cross examination on these various policies that you say er we 're in erm we 're in some measure of conflict with , your answer would be in in relation to E N V Eleven and E N V Twelve which you also cite , do I put it fairly your answer would be this ?
4 of a well not exactly a disaster , but if ev if ever you 're in some sort of uncomfortable plight er stuck in a train or anything like that the way t to cope is to go off to sleep if you can
5 I am in some pain . ’
6 ‘ I am in some pain . ’
7 So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders .
8 Perhaps it stems from a sensation that I am in some way making a prediction of awful catastrophe , and not just telling a story .
9 I will pass in silence over my feelings for you , for they can mean little to you at present ( though I am in some doubt as to when ‘ at present ’ is ) , though I assure you that what briefly flowered between us one morning is a blossom that will not perish , however many mornings remain .
10 ‘ Mr Beckenham , since I am in some sort indebted to you , I will , if you please , refrain from making you any answer , for I can not take it upon myself to do so without speaking to you in a manner which must sound both insolent and ungrateful ! ’
11 Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place .
12 Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity .
13 Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt .
14 If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos .
15 It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years .
16 Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology .
17 Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar .
18 This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple .
19 Has the LDDC , in spite of all the hype and political prominence , been in some sense a failure ?
20 The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small .
21 They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu .
22 Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ .
23 Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic .
24 The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge .
25 Brittany had long since been in some way subject to Normandy .
26 Yeah , yeah , but every case is different , you do n't , I mean she might of been in some car accident or something like that you see , might n't she ?
27 They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s .
28 I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp .
29 They have been in some ways too successful .
30 At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe .
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