Example sentences of "and was [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame . |
| 2 | Margy was twenty-seven when we spoke with her and was living in a one-bedroomed flat in Newcastle-upon-Tyne with her three-year-old daughter Donna , her second child . |
| 3 | Briefly she wondered whether he 'd already drunk himself into oblivion and was lying in a paralytic stupor on the hearthrug while saucepans boiled dry on the stove and vegetables burned to a crisp . |
| 4 | She woke up some hours later and everything was clean and white and she was clean and was lying in a fresh cotton garment between stiff sheets . |
| 5 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 6 | He was wearing a brown leather jacket , black jeans and was carrying in a blue holdall . |
| 7 | She fell , and was sitting in a spreading pool of blood . |
| 8 | She has won European , Olympic and World titles , was unbeaten in a major championship since 1986 and was racing in a country which has a special place in her heart . |