Example sentences of "he was [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
2 | He strode past the lines of guards and attendants , nodded to the pair of officers who lounged at their ease in the shadow of the enormous length of midnight-blue fabric which hung suspended from the ceiling in lieu of a screen , and slackened his pace only when he was out in the long gallery which ran supported around the entire upper floor . |
3 | He was out in the last over before tea after completing his 15th Test century . |
4 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
5 | Just an hour later he was back in the same court to give evidence against three men accused of trying to murder him . |
6 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |