Example sentences of "was in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back to Washingtons on the 22nd again with F/L Easter for Operation Bullseye — my last Bullseye was in a Lincoln ( 'J ’ ) on March 29 , 1957 — we did a seven hour night trip , bombing Heligoland from 18,200 feet — problems on the way back with controls iced-up prior to interception by night fighters off Cromer . |
| 2 | It was in a row of green marble facades , but although the elegant exterior had to be maintained , inside the Ashleys continued their policy of minimal decoration with maximum stock . |
| 3 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 4 | ‘ He was in a camp . |
| 5 | ‘ My father was in a camp at the end of the war , ’ Lucy said . |
| 6 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 7 | Of course I was in a fever to hear again , but as his regiment was sent back into the line , I did not have further word till April , when he responded to that phrase with the comment : ‘ I think you would consider that this lily has grown into rather a thistle … seriously , though , I 'm not the same little lad you last saw ; I feel so much older because of my life in the last year . ’ |
| 8 | At the time when he was posted missing , she was in a fever of anxiety about her own family who were in the concentration camp at Treblinka , and even then being sent to the gas chambers . |
| 9 | Every moment I was in a fever of anxiety lest I should be missing , by so much as a second , the vital news I both longed for and dreaded . |
| 10 | Terry was in a fever of excitement . |
| 11 | He was in a fever . |
| 12 | All that day Jezrael was in a fever of impatience for Ember to come back . |
| 13 | He was in a gutter , cold clean water running around him , washing the grime and sleep from his face . |
| 14 | Not strictly speaking , because the wedding was in a register office , and you do n't have a best man . |
| 15 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 16 | Clough responded furiously from his home yesterday , saying : ‘ Not a penny was passed between Terry Venables and me and the last time I was in a motorway service station , I went for a wee . ’ |
| 17 | Moran was in a rage about tools and a barrow that had been left out in the rain and complained about how much money was being wasted heedlessly about the house all the time . |
| 18 | Lovat listened to Topaz , torn between anger directed against Horatia Manners , and admiration for his wife 's loveliness which was always at its best when she was in a rage . |
| 19 | It is also possible to feel , and to be told in London , that there was more to be said about the mad love than he allowed himself , or was in a position , to come up with . |
| 20 | By the time she was fifty she was in a position to fulfil her life 's ambition : to sell up , go south , and buy a little house about ten miles from Beatrice ( ‘ near , but not too near ’ ) . |
| 21 | Suddenly , and for almost the first time in her life , apart from in her dreams , Marie felt that she was in a position of power . |
| 22 | ‘ Life is going to be stark , elemental , brutal , filthy and miserable ’ for the survivors , admitted Mr Petersen , who was in a position to know . |
| 23 | She was in a position to control judgements about marriageability . |
| 24 | Eventually GCCS in London and Singapore was in a position to read all Japanese naval signals , right up to the attack on Pearl Harbor , although Churchill carefully kept this information from the Americans . |
| 25 | By the time that was five months old , I felt that we had achieved a bit of organisation in our lives and that I was in a position to offer ‘ something back ’ to the NCT . |
| 26 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 27 | Thus , when in 1970 the first signs of the coming increase in oil prices appeared , France was in a position to decide , for economic and industrial reasons , to have 900-MWe pressurised-water reactors built under Westinghouse licence . |
| 28 | A landed proprietor himself — he inherited 27000 acres on Cranborne Chase , in Dorset — he was in a position to talk to the gentry as an equal , and he certainly had ample force of personality . |
| 29 | On hearing this dramatic piece of news , Theo wrote at once , promising as much support as he could afford until Vincent was in a position to earn his own money . |
| 30 | The capitalists hated the idea of the abolition of private property , but they liked to do deals ; the Communist state , by virtue of its total control of an individual economy , was in a position to do business unhindered by ethical or trade union considerations . |