Example sentences of "was [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that an aunt of mine used to insist that Charles , the crippled brother in the book , was secretly in love with his cousin , Lady Eveleen . |
| 2 | Mrs Virginia Bottomley , with whom half the Tory Party was secretly in love ( Edwina hoped the other half was in love with her ) , was holding a small court , flanked by her husband , Peter . |
| 3 | But how was that possible when he was secretly in love with Silvia ? |
| 4 | The conversation was mostly in Portuguese , a language in decline here , but still widely used among the landowning classes . |
| 5 | She was eventually in charge of 160 dancers at one point , and she choreographed productions all over the world . |
| 6 | It was not so , because he behaved in this strange and bearish fashion from the very beginning , even when he was most in love with me . |
| 7 | Management training was mentioned most often by County and Metropolitan libraries , community relations were more likely to be mentioned by London , Metropolitan and Welsh libraries , and computer and technical training was most in evidence in Inner London . |
| 8 | As he rushed towards the wheat-rick that was most in danger , he saw he was not alone . |
| 9 | It shows that the lighter side of entertainment , then as now , was most in demand : Madame Pompodour , The Three Graces , Nell Gwynne , Tonight 's the Night , and two unnamed shows ; or there was variety from the Alhambra , seasons of opera from the Old Vic and ( at a small extra charge ) from Covent Garden , and the usual Sunday church services . |
| 10 | Thus each profile had a distinct expression ; and when the movable side was most in action , the rigid one was in its coldest state of watchfulness . |
| 11 | For the present , John 's position was wholly in shadow and the bombardment , if the single , continuous shots could be called so , was lighting the sky from emplacements which , as they planned , left their stretch of wall in welcome shadow . |
| 12 | A situation report from Hesse in March 1936 expressly mentions the opinion , allegedly widely held among the population in the area , though undoubtedly reflecting above all the views of Party activists , ‘ that the Führer had for outward appearances to ban individual actions against the Jews in consideration of foreign policy , but in reality was wholly in agreement that each individual should continue on his own initiative the fight against Jewry in the most rigorous and radical form ’ . |
| 13 | A year later the Egyptian economy was effectively in hock , and French and British " advisers " were running the Caisse de la Dette Publique to sort it all out . |
| 14 | Although not officially appointed locomotive superintendent until 1902 , Churchward was effectively in control of the locomotive , carriage , and wagon departments from 1899 and so continued until his retirement at the end of 1921 , with the new title of chief mechanical engineer from 1916 . |
| 15 | It was early in the day , before kirk time , and Nisbet 's horse was badly in need of being shod . |
| 16 | Yet it was clear after Irene left him that she , too , was badly in need of a container , and finally found one in Young Jolyon . |
| 17 | From all accounts , the church was badly in need of repair . |
| 18 | The Gallery of English Costume at Platt Hall , Manchester , part of the City Art Gallery and also run by Clifford , was badly in need of money and publicity and Laura offered to remake their collection of decaying dresses for an illustrated lecture . |
| 19 | But she did know she was badly in need of a dose of sanity herself right now . |
| 20 | On the most general level , theoretical commitment to the concept of in-service training was widely in evidence . |
| 21 | In Croydon , big-business interests were influential in local politics but their involvement was personal and informal and their influence was rarely in evidence in action on policy-making as the local authority was keenly sensitive to their concerns without any need for pressure-group prompting from outside . |
| 22 | Kubrick , who was personally in charge of special photographic effects as well as of the film overall ( similarly Hyams was , unusually , director of photography on his own movie ) , deliberately chose old-fashioned in-camera techniques where they would work . |
| 23 | If he was annoyed , Zborowski smothered his feelings : he was somewhat in awe of Modigliani who was , after all , a gentleman . |
| 24 | Colonel Goreng , a rural thug with ribbon on his chest and scrambled egg on his cap , was somewhat in awe of the antecedents of his young wife . |
| 25 | I was so in love with Jean-Claude ! |
| 26 | I was so in love with her that I rented a house and hired servants for her . |
| 27 | Love , she very swiftly recognised , was a most tormenting emotion , and briefly her thoughts went to Travis , who was so in love and who was having such an awful time of it . |
| 28 | This was so in respect of rectories but not of vicarages . |
| 29 | How far this was so in fact and how it may have come about are important themes of this and the following chapters . |
| 30 | An important general rule was in an Act passed in 1967 , which allowed arrest without a warrant for murder or for any other crime for which the jail sentence could be five years or more , but this was merely in addition to the motley of other provisions . |