Example sentences of "was missing in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 2 | For preaching he would sit cross-legged on the chancel step , there would be bells to make up in sound what was missing in sight , and incense to enlist a further sense . |
| 3 | It was apparent to me , even then as a young officer , that what was missing in this sorry scene was any commitment to the task on the part of those who had to execute it . |
| 4 | Since their arrival at ‘ La Felicità ’ she seemed to have forgotten all the social life she was missing in England and devoted her energies to the narcissistic process of going brown , measuring each day the contrast between her exposed wrist and the satisfying white band left beneath her watch-strap . |
| 5 | She liked the nights in the country better ; the mixed smells of the town contained more human corruption : the health of animal dung 's pungency was missing in the ammoniac whiffs from the town culvert , and the touch of the air was never quite as lively as in the yard . |
| 6 | That nagging doubt , the feeling that something was missing in the woman she was supposed to be . |
| 7 | It turned out he was missing in action . |