Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were doing it in a large double bed in the middle of Westminster Abbey with choir and priests looking on . |
| 2 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 3 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 4 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 5 | I know when Carl was , was doing it in a modest way and he , he 'd seen this on , and he said it 's impossible that the way they do it ! |
| 6 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 7 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |