Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd told me that as I was caught in civilian clothes I was going to be treated as a spy , and every time I heard those shots I thought ‘ My turn tomorrow ’ . ' |
| 2 | Wherever jade was used in early times it was derived from alluvial sources . |
| 3 | This applies to a certain extent to the solution of the detailed stress distribution around a crack and until this was known in some detail it was not possible to predict what a crack would do when it met an inhomogeneity such as the interface between a fibre and a resin . |
| 4 | When a repeat biopsy was taken in these patients it did not affect management and this practice , which has often been followed just to satisfy some definitions of coeliac disease , should be reviewed . |
| 5 | If we knew why she was killed in that way we would be closer to the truth . ’ |