Example sentences of "[was/were] often in [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 2 | In these cases the clients were often in hospital at referral and were either physically or mentally too frail or ill to be discharged . |
| 3 | As a journalist I was often in contact with Jeremy Thorpe . |
| 4 | Field was often in trouble for Nonconformity , yet spurned the excesses of the sectaries . |
| 5 | Green sometimes accompanied by his wife , was often in Keswick on business ( he would set off walking from Ambleside , and be picked up by the carrier at Wyburn ) and would call to visit his children , and take them out for walks down to Derwentwater . |
| 6 | With a country friend , he was often in demand for concert parties . |