Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 2 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 3 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 4 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 5 | Bee Moore , who worked in Westlands and was a sister of Paccy Moore the shoemaker , had heard that Eve was dead from horrible injuries and that Benny was in such shock she could n't be told . |
| 6 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 7 | It was in some figure you ca n't even relate to . |
| 8 | The church used to talk about the ‘ natural law ’ and if that was in full force you 'd get up on every good-looking woman within sight . |