Example sentences of "was in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katrina was in that morning . |
| 2 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 3 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 4 | Who was in that side you bowled out ? |
| 5 | ‘ Patty alone of all the children felt that mamma was in that coffin , and that a new sadder life had begun for papa and herself . |
| 6 | ‘ What was in that bottle I found in the bathroom ? ’ |
| 7 | The land in question was in that part of northern Zawiya which is called Mannaia , and it seems beyond doubt that the Mannaia had granted it to the Sanusi order in the 1870s . |
| 8 | She could imagine what kind of material was in that book , and her nape prickled . |
| 9 | Mr. W. E. Gladstone was Prime Minister from 1880 to 1885 but then that post alternated between the Marquess of Salisbury and Mr. Gladstone until the turn of the century , with a short interlude in 1894–1895 when the Earl of Rosebery was in that office . |
| 10 | It was in that year that female suffrage was being widely advocated and the militant suffragettes made their appearance . |
| 11 | Whatever the reason he was in that room it was n't for food . |
| 12 | There were too many stories of that nature , and it was in that year that Modi was labelled for long after his life . |
| 13 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 14 | Last week , when I was in that ceramics export place , I found some photographs under a file in my boss 's desk . |
| 15 | This is partly I suppose what made us seem like a destination to him ; he was in that simple sense ready to arrive , ready to get somewhere and rest there for the night . |
| 16 | How fine everything was in that first careless year ) . |
| 17 | It was in that year that ‘ Atkey ’ was drowned while sailing with Bevil Quiller-Couch — a shattering blow for Grahame . |
| 18 | It was in that position that Alf was an important member of Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , when we climbed out of Division 4 in 1960–61 and , with his Cup-tie appearances , be comes one the group of only forty or so men to have played over 200 games for our club . |
| 19 | Oswald 's best season at the Palace was probably 1933–34 , when he topped our list of appearances with 39 games , although perhaps his finest display for the club was in that season 's 2nd round FA Cup tie at Stockport , when the Palace came from behind to win 2–1 . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was in that elite Division that David 's tireless workrate , intelligent and selfless running and accurate distribution proved him to be a footballer of high calibre . |
| 21 | The Ayrshire land granted to Walter Fitzallan was in that part of the county still called Kyle , which is , roughly , the land between the rivers Irvine and Doon . |
| 22 | It was in that House that he scored his greatest triumph for the cause of deaf people by persuading the Labour Government of Attlee that to provide free spectacles to the partially-sighted , free dentures to those whose teeth had rotted , free artificial limbs to the disabled , but to actually charge the sum of £10 to deaf people for National Health hearing-aids was blatant discrimination ! |
| 23 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 24 | Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 25 | They were that Filmer 's bedroom was in that car . |
| 26 | It was in that large , warm-smelling and welcoming kitchen . |
| 27 | It was in that ugly repository of polished pine , acoustic tiles and garish , sentimental stained glass that he and his wife had been married , and in a flat in the rectory , living above the parish priest , that they had made their first home . |
| 28 | But it was in that beautifully designed and equipped , but comfortable and homely kitchen at Martyr 's Cottage that she had found her healing . |
| 29 | ‘ When I came to Ampeg I had a whole book full of design ideas — everything drawn out and ready to go — which I presented them with , and the amps that you 're seeing right now are almost exactly what was in that book . |
| 30 | This flashes after you 've pressed it once , giving you the chance to change your mind ; press it again and you 've overwritten whatever patch was in that memory previously . |