Example sentences of "was in a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , she was in a dead faint . ’ |
| 2 | So he made me pretend I was in a dead faint . |
| 3 | Draper , after all , was in a not dissimilar position himself , as a 15-per-cent shareholder of Virgin . |
| 4 | Noah was in a particularly bad mood one dinner-time , and so he tried to make Oliver cry by hitting him , pulling his hair , and calling him horrible names . |
| 5 | Today he was in a particularly bad mood . |
| 6 | In the mid-1930s Seebohm Rowntree was in a particularly strong position to comment authoritatively on changes in living conditions when he repeated his 1899 enquiry in York . |
| 7 | He was in a curiously elegiac mood , moving soft on silken feet in deference to the sadness in the place , now and then touching a tree or a still-surviving piece of stone in a placating greeting , apparently apologising for his presence . |
| 8 | This was in a generally low-waged county ; in 1794 in Durham their earnings were from £4 to £6 . |
| 9 | At some time in the 19th century it became a school , then reverted to being a private house , but was in a sadly neglected state when bought by Major and Mrs Anthony Burke in 1953 . |
| 10 | When Rosalind and Philip first moved in , it was in a pretty parlous condition , with , amongst other nightmares , an elder tree with its roots in the great hall and its branches spreading in through the windows . |
| 11 | Because you know she had Danielle and was in a pretty bad mood for two weeks now |
| 12 | Well that would imply that I was in a pretty bad way and normally would n't do |
| 13 | Huaiwiri was in some ways exceptional : Salha was in a formidably strong genealogical position , and the oasis had a small population . |
| 14 | When he spoke it was in a barely audible voice as if he feared that his words would carry beyond the four walls . |
| 15 | It was in a similarly reflective vein that he wrote to Marion Dorn later in the year . |
| 16 | And because Barlaston had ceased to function as a house in the 1930s , and had not been modernized for many years before that , it was in a remarkably unaltered state and thus an important archaeological document . |
| 17 | ‘ In Melachusetuck , you mean ? ’ grinned Gladstone Murray who was in a most affable mood . |
| 18 | Samuel Pipkin was in a most difficult position . |
| 19 | Thus it will be appreciated that the building was in a rather unkempt and neglected state when the present owners began to restore the structure in 1983 . |
| 20 | Benjamin and Elizabeth 's first home was in a rather unusual location for them : Titfords in general rarely seem to have favoured areas of London south of the Thames as a place to live , but here was a brief exception . |
| 21 | The trouble was that the organ was in a rather awkward situation at the base of the skull , below the inion ( that is , the external occipital protuberance ) , a part of the body which , in most ladies , Nature has thoughtfully cloaked with a fine growth of hair . |
| 22 | He was in a rather more agreeable mood . |
| 23 | Mum noticed I was in a rather strange mood . |
| 24 | To be absolutely honest , I was in a rather awkward position . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm afraid that when Alexander tapped on my study door I was in a rather abstracted state . |
| 26 | Merstham was in a slightly more rural area of Surrey , and one upon which we had always looked with favour . |
| 27 | Arriving back at the cottage , Otto was in a thoroughly excited state . |
| 28 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 29 | The consolation was in a wonderfully spontaneous performance of Rachmaninov 's Second Symphony . |
| 30 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |