Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adj] [noun sg] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You were in good health when I saw you only a week ago today . ’ |
| 2 | When he left the vehicle on the Saturday evening , all four wheels were off , and they were in that state when he returned to the job on the Sunday morning . |
| 3 | Every last one of them I would imagine that were in that room when I met them er a week ago Friday I would , would probably stake my shirt on it , not that shirt , but this one |
| 4 | They crossed Dalmeny bridge and were in open countryside when the attackers struck . |
| 5 | But he was in poor health when the latter was written , and both books reflect his increasing pessimism about international affairs ; as Edward Blishen says , ‘ the positive and determined John Dolittle has been replaced by an unhappy dreamer . ’ |
| 6 | That was the ol he was that chap was in that bed when I came in . |
| 7 | If it was a question that this vehicle was in that state when the sold it , then I would think that most of them would put that right themselves . |
| 8 | Greene was in mid career when he wrote that . |
| 9 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 10 | A Knitmaster owner was in great difficulty when knitting the second side of her neck in Fair Isle . |
| 11 | John Palmer , an outstanding competitor , was in great form when he beat Eric Ramsdale ( Darlington ) 21–10 after leading well throughout the game . |
| 12 | Due to a power blackout , their hotel was in total darkness when they arrived , and they had to trudge up the stairs with their luggage to the 10th floor . |
| 13 | But three minutes later Captain Fuchs knew he was in real trouble when the unbelievable happened — the jumbo 's second starboard engine caught fire . |
| 14 | Bristol , like much of England , was in political turmoil when Coleridge reached it in November . |
| 15 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 16 | It was in this state when a team consisting of six men from Scott 's base camp made an ascent of the volcano in December 1912 , with a geologist , Raymond Priestley , in the lead . |
| 17 | And he was in this mood when disaster struck . |
| 18 | Fortunately , the house was in excellent shape when they moved in . |
| 19 | Young Duffy was in fine form when he defeated B Valdimarsson of Iceland 4–0 . |
| 20 | The all-women party was in full swing when the PC called at the Compass Inn at Cheltenham , Glos , where a strip-o-gram was expected . |
| 21 | Odd that Johnson did not take note of Strichen , whose development was in full swing when he called there for his Wednesday lunch . |
| 22 | The wedding party was in full swing when she arrived back at the château . |