Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but you , you did n't know I was in amazing pain though , I do n't think . |
| 2 | Suddenly Sophie found she was in deep water . |
| 3 | And you got you got the man from the Terminator , Arnold Schwarzenegger a big heavy monster build who was in Total Recall , Raw Deal , what else ? |
| 4 | At the end of the Saturday debate we were in more disarray than at any stage since either coming to power or Margaret Thatcher taking over the leadership . |
| 5 | We found he was in good shape , but had no food in his intestines . |
| 6 | A real heavy duty place it was in those days |
| 7 | ‘ Master Cook ! ’ he said , ‘ I do n't know what was in that flame pot of yours but it undoubtedly saved the day and many noble lives . |
| 8 | Three-quarters of providers were confident that " this unit can take on the competition " and two-thirds believed they were in good shape to do so . |
| 9 | I believed he was in safe hands . |
| 10 | For a moment he imagined he was in another world , a simple uncomplicated world : a world where there was no place down below in the valley where men were being prepared for war ; that there was no place in Northumberland where a woman sat in a room all day with only her thoughts for company ; that there was no one called Carrie Smith ; that the world had dwindled and there was only this secluded garden and a secluded house , as had been said , with the hills to the back of it and the river at its feet and two women so unalike , yet alike : so understanding , so thoughtful of each other , and not only of each other , but of him . |
| 11 | The sheriff has said he was in great agitation . |
| 12 | On July 5 the Sudanese news agency , Suna , reported that President of the secessionist republic , Abdel-Rahman Ahmed Ali , had said he was in daily contact with the USC and that " we believe that the Somali nation is one " . |
| 13 | Mummy is there and I 'd thought she was in good hands but of course I could n't visit her as often as I 'd like while earning my megamillions . |
| 14 | The performances on this new disc are first-rate ; indeed they are so polished that I found myself occasionally longing for something with a little more humanity and which more faithfully reflected what were in all probability the more rough-and-ready sounds of the Kürbs-Hütte clientele . |
| 15 | erm , there 's on certain parts of ah what they put has shown they they 've understood what was in that part of the diary like in the exercises relating this morning to or to learning like with the Roman numerals and the other thing they shown that they understood what was in that context , but then on erm when you get later on it 's just er |
| 16 | Me ai n't know what was in that glance , but we moved in behind the police . |
| 17 | When she was dumped she was in terrible condition , coping with seven young pups . |
| 18 | Yeah I am , but I do wish it was in better condition . |
| 19 | Ray Noorda , chairman of Novell Inc , and Unix System Laboratories Inc chief Roel Pieper visited Japan at the end of last week in an attempt to reassure shareholders and customers of their respective organisations , already , if not soon to become , joint shareholders , that life was proceeding as normal and that the future of Unix as the industry has known it was in good hands . |
| 20 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 21 | I saw flood-lit spaces , heard music and felt I was in another world , somewhere in Switzerland . |
| 22 | I knew I was in great danger . |
| 23 | I thought I was in enough trouble so I refused . |
| 24 | Juliet felt she was in another world , she felt as though she were intoxicated . |
| 25 | And yet , like Anne Boleyn all those centuries before her , she knew she was in imminent danger of losing her head … |
| 26 | I thought you were in this bit . |
| 27 | Shocked old-guard MPs , who had imagined they were in cushy seats for life , suddenly found Right-Ons dominating their constituency parties with a potent mixture of brow-beating and attrition . |
| 28 | For one uncertain moment she thought they were in each other 's arms , but as they welcomed her warmly , she decided that she had been mistaken . |
| 29 | They mean an easy , phonetic ( or rather phonemic ) system such as alphabetic literacy and they think of a ‘ literate society ’ as one in which such a script is widely assumed in public life , as they claim it was in sixth century Greece . |
| 30 | ‘ On Saturday I saw he was in good condition and decided to play him . |