Example sentences of "[pron] was in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in there last night trying to get some ideas for Volunteers Day . |
| 2 | ‘ In Rome I was in the similar predicament . |
| 3 | ‘ I was in my dressing-room . ’ |
| 4 | However , to say that events that happened when I was in my late twenties somehow predisposed me to homelessness would be absolute nonsense . |
| 5 | I was in cinema- and theatre-land — the part of London that never sleeps . |
| 6 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 7 | I was in a familiar world and I was able to explain to Jenny how everything was done . |
| 8 | I was in a numbered uniform of massive symbolic importance with nuances of style which clearly defined our social identity . |
| 9 | Now , as a consequence of my eight marginal years on a drug squad , visits to the United Nations , and the three years at university reading a subject which few knew anything about , but would be willing to dismiss along with all of the social sciences , I was in danger of being irrevocably cast into the mould of being a ‘ college man ’ or academic . |
| 10 | I was in a hurry . ’ |
| 11 | So I jumped in , eloquently I thought , to second Niall 's resolution , to be released to the press if agreed : that the Labour Party should make annual contributions to the IRA — Yes I did - I was in a wonderful whirl , you see , the whole ant-heap had suddenly become vivid , and , um , deconstructable ; I forgot Wat Tyler and Keir Hardie , and saw rich and poor as it all is today , internationally struggling , the classes — well , you could n't understand … |
| 12 | Perhaps I was in the wrong place , the wrong part of the town . |
| 13 | I was in the wrong place . |
| 14 | I was in Leicester Square . |
| 15 | I remember well , during the air-raids of the forties when I was in London and we waited as darkness came for the first sirens and the deep breath to get one 's courage up , that we felt we were part of the will of the capital of England . |
| 16 | By midnight I was in an operating theatre in Inverness having an ankle fixed . |
| 17 | ‘ I was in the desert from 4 July until just after I was captured and escaped in May 1942 , ’ he told the court . |
| 18 | ‘ I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’ |
| 19 | When I first saw myself imitated , I was in shock for days . |
| 20 | As one said , what Easton has , unlike many areas , is ‘ ordinary civil policing ’ ( FN 16/11/87 , p. 6 ) , so that there is a continuity with policing in Easton before the current troubles began : ‘ I was in Easton years ago when it was the old station , though basically policing at Easton has n't changed from when I was here years ago . |
| 21 | I dreamt that I was in Cardiff and in bed with the wife . |
| 22 | ‘ I was in England before the war , at Cambridge to study law . ’ |
| 23 | Several hours later I was in London making my way to another railway station to catch the train going North . |
| 24 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 25 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 26 | So for the rest of the month I was in charge of wages , piece rates , training , negotiations and all the rest of it , and then one day a month I was regularly calling on the same customers in Bloomsbury and I was collecting money , selling the goods and so on , which I think was a very important part of my continued training . |
| 27 | But I was in a hurry to get things done . |
| 28 | But it was still very difficult , because every day I was in London I was moving from one business to the other and they could not have been more different in character . |
| 29 | When I was in the Nobel Division of ICI , the chairman was one of the most diminutive of men . |
| 30 | I was in charge of a refinery on my own . |