Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were in private accommodation you were noth , you were nothing like so well off . |
| 2 | But few who attended today 's ceremonies were in any doubt they were witnessing the end of an era . |
| 3 | According to a recent report in the New York Times , Castelli has said that he wishes the archives to be fully accessible to the public and that if this were in any doubt he would donate them without charge to the Smithsonian Institute 's Archives of American Art . |
| 4 | If their attackers were in any strength it would not take them long to get through . |
| 5 | He were in this morning he 's er had summat to eat , well he 's made it obvious . |
| 6 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 7 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
| 8 | There 's a resistor there that was in that tray I do n't know whether it 's fell out the board or |
| 9 | Who was in that side you bowled out ? |
| 10 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 11 | What was in that cake you gave me ? |
| 12 | I actually feel , there was a time I used to think it would n't happen to me because if I was in that situation I would do this , I would do the next thing and when it did actually happen to me it took me ages to get over |
| 13 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 14 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 15 | As I have written elsewhere , ‘ for one who was in perpetual self-inquisition he was remarkably outward-looking , and always showed interest in other people 's activities ’ . |
| 16 | Bee Moore , who worked in Westlands and was a sister of Paccy Moore the shoemaker , had heard that Eve was dead from horrible injuries and that Benny was in such shock she could n't be told . |
| 17 | When Czechoslovakia was in terminal crisis she raised money from the Royal Institute of British Architects to bring back a planeload of children from Prague . |
| 18 | Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him . |
| 19 | Big stresses were built up near the glue-lines ; if the glue was in bad condition it broke ; if not , the wood failed near the glue . |
| 20 | He had to remind himself that when she was in this mood she was a mistress of the single , agonized word , the mutely suffering glance . |
| 21 | And er so while I was in this shop I I sold this chap five hundred bundles of fire wood you see ? |
| 22 | The binder twine was in this thing you see and it went |
| 23 | And erm Mark was in last week he said |
| 24 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 25 | And erm that was the spirit that was in those days you see erm , they said I 've got nothing to do . |
| 26 | It was in some figure you ca n't even relate to . |
| 27 | The lawn was illuminated by floodlighting and numerous fairy lights , a number of very large coloured umbrellas had been erected and when all was in full swing it made a very animated and enchanting picture . |
| 28 | The church used to talk about the ‘ natural law ’ and if that was in full force you 'd get up on every good-looking woman within sight . |
| 29 | By the time Gullholm was in full view she was sorry the crossing was over . |