Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis . |
| 2 | He later reported that they were in worse condition than he had first thought and doubted whether they were fit for the job . |
| 3 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 4 | They were in total agreement that it was the best thing for both sides that Isabelle should go . |
| 5 | When he left the vehicle on the Saturday evening , all four wheels were off , and they were in that state when he returned to the job on the Sunday morning . |
| 6 | ‘ We thought you would n't have been like you were in that interview unless you knew something that — that you were n't telling people . |
| 7 | Every last one of them I would imagine that were in that room when I met them er a week ago Friday I would , would probably stake my shirt on it , not that shirt , but this one |
| 8 | The sixties were in full swing and we all lived , whether we like it or not , in a permissive society . |
| 9 | It was won by the Cheshire Youth Orchestra , who were in jubilant mood as they left for the journey home . |
| 10 | They were in chronological order and I saw him grow older before my eyes . |
| 11 | It was in buoyant mood that she was driven back to Merchiston Lodge , and she entered her employer 's bedchamber with a smile on her lips . |
| 12 | GREAT BRITAIN international Paul Cuskin was in sparkling form as he gave Valli Harriers a storming anchor-leg victory in the Ernie Thompson Memorial Road Relay at Gosforth Park on Saturday . |
| 13 | It was in that spirit that he persuaded in the early 1960s to take Pugwash seriously . |
| 14 | But they had made her feel restless with their talk and it was in that mood that she 'd let the landlord get close to her by the open landing window as he was bringing up some more beer . |
| 15 | That was the ol he was that chap was in that bed when I came in . |
| 16 | She left Queen 's in 1850 and it was in that year that she founded the school of which she was to be head for forty years , the North London Collegiate School for Ladies , which opened in the Buss Camden Street house on 4 April 1850 with thirty-five pupils . |
| 17 | It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination ! |
| 18 | it 's erm , you shut up , no I went in , I 've never been in Weeks , to go in and have a look and everything , it was Hamish that was in that time and you can have a right laugh with him , he 's the one that came and sorted the hall and stairs |
| 19 | For if that departed order can be allowed any saving graces , it was in that area that they might be found . |
| 20 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 21 | Greene was in mid career when he wrote that . |
| 22 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 23 | Derek Waterworth ( 63 ) was in good health as he drove his 22-ton lorry carrying shale into Sowerby Bridge , West Yorkshire , just after 9am on Monday . |
| 24 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 25 | John Palmer , an outstanding competitor , was in great form when he beat Eric Ramsdale ( Darlington ) 21–10 after leading well throughout the game . |
| 26 | ‘ He was in great pain but he used his skill and experience to escape . |
| 27 | Ryder Cup star Paul Broadhurst was in confident mood as he prepared for the Mitsubishi Austrian Open , starting in Salzburg today . |
| 28 | I knew then that my last hours had come but was in such agony that I began to wish they would come sooner . |
| 29 | ‘ I was in such shock that I wanted to phone round Julie 's friends but she had taken her contacts book with her and I was in a panic . |
| 30 | This modest and pioneering rule-book was in such demand that he was forced to publish the fifteenth edition in 1904 . |