Example sentences of "[was/were] in my [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My master said : for my dear mother 's sake I will be a friend to you and you shall take care of my linen — God bless him — and gave me four golden guineas which were in my old lady 's pocket when she died .
2 Yes that oh oh That was a l that was in my great grannie 's time that they went there .
3 ‘ I went to a series of lectures on the history of art which he gave in Exeter where I was in my final year reading English .
4 I told him I was in my first year and that my curriculum to date had been based around mastering the basics of Swahili , its grammar , basic vocabulary and syntax .
5 I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme .
6 I was in my first year at Bedford .
7 Then a few days later we had opening night , and I was in my first tuxedo .
8 ‘ I first heard about the race while I was in my first term at Exeter University , ’ she told ACCOUNTANCY .
9 My headmaster and a teacher , after a long struggle , managed to convince my Papa that it was in my best interest to pursue such a training .
10 I have changed enough now to be shocked by the ease with which I let go of my Black identity , situated as it was in my real subordination on the basis of race and class , in exchange for an illusory equality with white men on the sexual plane .
11 Soon I was in my old room , with its creaky Victorian furniture , looking out of the tall window at the Dublin traffic .
12 He was in my he was in my last form .
13 I found myself wondering , sitting as I was in my own pollution generator , about education .
14 And that was in my own country , the land of my birth , and the birth of my father and my mother , and their fathers and their mothers .
15 ‘ I was in my own chamber , awaiting poor Mowbray 's return . ’
16 ‘ Before you continue , Sir John , ’ Fitzormonde spoke up , ‘ and you start speculating on where I was , all I can say is that I was in my own chamber but no one saw me there . ’
17 When I woke up I was in my own bed with a terrible hangover .
18 Well I erm , I was , I was burgled about a year ago and I 'm am ex er , I 'm a retired criminal lawyer , and , but I , I felt that if I lived in the States and trained in the States and I carried a gun then and I felt very vulnerable in not having a gun because he , I was in my own home and he fist me with a knife
19 No it was er it was er oh how can I say er I used me head and er , if you follow what I mean , and imagination and er I could envisage what , perhaps , people wanted , it was in my own mind and I 'd make it up some way or another .
20 I was in my own world , my wild crazy chosen world — I was my wild crazy chosen me .
21 I was a Sunday School teacher erm when I was in my secondary school and I wondered what God would want me to do with my life when I left school and I thought maybe he wants me to be a missionary and I thought it was only teachers and doctors that could be missionaries I was wrong was n't I ?
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