Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] was [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm right in saying Madam Chairman that y of those first seven we 've still got two schemes in still to come and there was one in erm so I look forward to the progress and er that we 're making on this and all I can say is |
| 2 | It can be done also while the train is moving , which is why we want to know if there was anyone in the dome car who was unknown to you all . |
| 3 | ‘ thought that , following your direction , the jury might think that there was something in the statement which the defence wanted to hide , using the cloak of privilege . |
| 4 | The United Kingdom argued that there was nothing in the manner of its introduction , or in the fact that it affected the Anglo-Spanish vessels , that made the Act of 1988 incompatible with Community law . |
| 5 | In fact , he probably enjoyed the nationwide attention he received and there was nothing in his previous conduct to suggest he would be worried by the escalating costs . |
| 6 | ‘ I came to see if there was anything in the apartment to give me a lead on who killed Mahoney , ’ I said . |
| 7 | I mean if there was no-one in the car and the door was bloody open then |
| 8 | He ventured to suggest that there was nothing in the manner in which they had brought the concern into its active and productive state of working , which ought to subject them to such new and vexatious problems . |
| 9 | Mr Templeton said that minutes later he had spoken to a policeman who contradicted that information and said he had been told that there was someone in the building . |
| 10 | I had to erm until the whole of the h the premises had been searched and secured then I had to assume that there was someone in that room until the contrary was shown . |
| 11 | AFTER a few minutes in the company of Joe Boyd , I was wondering whether there was anybody in world music he had not heard of . |
| 12 | I thought of the contents of the suitcase and decided that there was something in what he said . |
| 13 | But now — well , I 've always found that there was something in what Fiver had to say . |
| 14 | When other people arrived at the scene , and saw that there was no-one in the burnt-out cockpit , they assumed that the pilot had bailed out . |
| 15 | After the agony of the scene on the station I felt that there was no-one in the world on my side . |
| 16 | At this critical juncture in her life she felt that there was no-one in whom she could confide . |
| 17 | A's defence on the latter ground would of course be assisted if there was something in the shed worth stealing . |
| 18 | Questions of construction may be involved on what is said in Parliament and I can not see how if the rule is modified in this way the parties ' legal advisers could properly come to court without having looked to see whether there was anything in the Hansard Report on the Bill which could assist their case . |
| 19 | Caretaker wondered if there was something in the syntax of the Welsh language which made this sort of construction more acceptable in Welsh than it was in English . |
| 20 | I wondered whether there was anything in the teaching of Tai-Fing that could get me through the next half an hour . |