Example sentences of "was in [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
| 3 | It was in that year her father married again . |
| 4 | There 's a resistor there that was in that tray I do n't know whether it 's fell out the board or |
| 5 | ‘ Well , sir , it 's not so irrelevant because while he was in that curacy there was some sort of row about a boy in the youth club . |
| 6 | Who was in that side you bowled out ? |
| 7 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 8 | What was in that cake you gave me ? |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Well we always do , I mean if you 'd use all that was in that cupboard you 'd have half a dozen jumpers |
| 12 | The money was in five-pound notes which I 'm afraid I paid straight into my bank . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The iron was in two parts which you could screw together . |
| 16 | The telephone was in one piece there were no bloodstains no signs of what they still call ‘ foul play ’ as if somebody had been kicked behind the referee 's back . |
| 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 | Then she was in another bedroom which could only be Luke 's , and on the chest by the window lay the passport . |
| 27 | It was in any case something of a miracle — and a tribute to the tenacity of the Lebanese — that their Covenant worked for as long as it did . |
| 28 | The title ‘ Head of the Secret Police ’ was in any case something of a misnomer . |
| 29 | No one was in any doubt who had controlled it . |
| 30 | But Bob explains that he has special personal reasons for wanting to help to express the gratitude that he felt when he was in dire trouble himself , thousands of miles from home , and was baled out by the kindness of strangers . |