Example sentences of "[was/were] in [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had little impact on the LSE students who , if they were in anything at all were likely to be inclined towards the Trotskyism of the International Socialists and the varieties of new leftism rather than this unknown creed . |
| 2 | They were in 'er for a dinner Which was excellent , in Pinner , And another one , a cracker , In Majacca — that 's in Spain |
| 3 | But , although it was still early for tourists , the relics were in none of those places . |
| 4 | you got yo would have to take and hour or take two hours , or take three hours and if you take up to three hours or if you got three separate hours that was detention and if we were in our in the junior part of the school in the first three forms erm , you then had to go into school on Saturday morning . |
| 5 | And if you were in it with me , I would n't want to get out at all , ’ he said outrageously . |
| 6 | As political life became dominated by people who were in it as a career , the shires felt betrayed . |
| 7 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 8 | She was in something of a daze . |
| 9 | He really was in something of a hurry and there was going to be nothing gained by engaging in either argument of fisticuffs with a cab driver . |
| 10 | That was in something like nineteen seventy , nineteen eighty something , the the the turn of the seventies , eighties . |
| 11 | I ca n't remember the telly programme he was in something like Budgie it was n't Budgie though . |
| 12 | Well , I was in her for thirteen months . |
| 13 | Briefly , his interest was in her as a person with opinions and particular professional attitudes of her own , rather than as a female body he wanted to possess , and Maria responded with relief . |
| 14 | He liked her , you could n't help but like her , but he wished in this moment it was in him to more than like her . |
| 15 | Eventually Jim Humby who was in Standard Two at school ( I was in one at this time ) told me that he had a spare . |
| 16 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 17 | My opposition goes back to 1979 and to the work done in the Department of the Environment when I was in it on the production of the 1981 Green Paper . |
| 18 | If so , what was in it for her ? |
| 19 | Cos an oil engine was in it for a while and then they put a new diesel engine in I think it would be nineteen thirty nine or something . |
| 20 | In fact he and then Craigie from Rowsay was in it for a while . |
| 21 | That 's what he was in it for . |
| 22 | I only discovered I was in it by sheer chance . |
| 23 | She was in it in India . |