Example sentences of "[noun prp] was in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was stood in the wings refilling the whisky decanter , picturing herself seated at a concert grand on the platform of the Philharmonic Hall — Meredith was in the front row gazing up at her with adoration — when three men walking one behind the other filed through the pass-door into the auditorium . |
| 2 | Among the Best Actor losers , Dustin was in the prestigious company of Paul Newman ( Cool Hand Luke ) , Warren Beatty ( Bonnie and Clyde ) . |
| 3 | Even before these upsets , Arizona was in the political dog house because its voters decided to cancel the Martin Luther King holiday . |
| 4 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
| 5 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 6 | Tony Wright was in the wrong and landed this into the safe hands of Barnett . |
| 7 | KUWAIT was in the thick of battle last night as leading oil producers tried to hammer out a deal which would prevent prices collapsing when winter demand drops . |
| 8 | Ken was in The Private Ear and the Public Eye for a year — Maggie left slightly earlier to play in May , May . |
| 9 | Harbury had been failing all day to reach Wickham , which was especially frustrating as Wickham was in the same building and Harbury felt proprietorial about the crime . |
| 10 | The ideological muddle forged with passionate lyricism by Michel A'flaq was in the final analysis , inspired by the romanticism of Herder and other German thinkers . |
| 11 | Jane was in the tiny kitchen talking quietly to Mrs Rooney , a tiny white-haired woman , who spoke with a broad Scottish accent . |
| 12 | Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China . |
| 13 | Now Kennedy had a dilemma although Cuba was in the Caribbean , and although the United States had the biggest navy in the world , and the biggest airforce and was easily able to exterminate Cuba if it wa if it wished to , it was vulnerable , however , in other areas , in particular it was vulnerable in Berlin and it was vulnerable in Indo-China . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Liverpool striker Ronny Rosenthal was in the European League select side that was beaten 4-2 by Italian champions AC Milan in a charity match in Milan yesterday . |
| 15 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
| 16 | When he was sure that Zhukov was in the right position , Kirov let him go . |
| 17 | At 11.42am the Toyota was in the head-on collision with a Vauxhall Cavalier in which a family of four from West Kirby was travelling to Chester Zoo . |
| 18 | At 11.42am the Toyota was in the head-on collision with a Vauxhall Cavalier in which a family of four from West Kirkby was travelling to Chester Zoo . |
| 19 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |
| 20 | OK , Vern was in the other bunk in the prow — the bows ? |
| 21 | it existed , in reality , because Ford needed something special to tempt people into their showrooms and Shelby was in the right place at the right time to provide it . |
| 22 | If the routine of a nap got well established now , then it would be easier to keep it in place later on , when Faye was in the second trimester and feeling deceptively fit and healthy as women usually did in those middle months … |
| 23 | DeFries was in the Christian Dior suite , Marc Bolan was in the Marc Bolan suite , David was in the next one , Jagger was there and all the Stones , and every night was party night . |
| 24 | TODAY has also discovered how Thresher went to extraordinary lengths to stop anyone apart from its own senior management and security staff proving conclusively whether or not Mr Lamont was in the Praed Street store on November 16 . |
| 25 | The BBC was in the loony left 's pocket even then ! ) . |
| 26 | His Magdalene friend Selwyn Lloyd was in the same class . |
| 27 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 28 | That it came to this shows how involved Priestley was in the religious disputes and politics of his day . |
| 29 | ‘ Professor MacFee was in the other day — asked me to order him a copy . |
| 30 | At the 18th Sandy was in the semi-rough again , this time on the right-hand , with the fairway having yet another of St Georges ' hog 's backs on the way in . |