Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] to be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I did write one thing at school , the school pantomime , which nobody wanted to be in anyway . |
| 2 | ‘ It was of somebody who seemed to be in distress , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Daniel ( ’ Robinson Crusoe ’ ) Defoe , after reaching Saltash , which he found to be in a state of decay , and travelling to Liskeard , which was more to his taste , wrote , ‘ In the neighbourhood of these towns are many pleasant seats of the Cornish gentry … they are the most sociable , generous and to one another the kindest neighbours that are to be found ’ . |
| 4 | It is in their own interest to do so : each wants to pursue its own policies , which it believed to be in the best interests of the country , without having those policies tempered or abandoned because of the need to enter into alliance with another party . |
| 5 | Within seconds she was confronted by a tall man whom she took to be in his late forties , but who , she guessed , could n't be quite that if he was Rosie 's brother . |
| 6 | The one who wanted to be in the film , when you were going cooee granddad . |
| 7 | Nevertheless they are constrained from deploying the usual wind-up techniques by their overriding concern to justify their actions and attitudes to someone who disapproved of them but whom they perceived to be in a position to influence their situation for better or worse . |
| 8 | Thus ( 15a ) presupposes that the person referred to by I has been waiting for news about someone whom he thought to be in danger , whereas ( 15b ) does not , and might be said rather by someone who is comparing himself with other people who do not know this fact . |
| 9 | LOYALIST gunmen were ordered to kill anyone who happened to be in a particular house attacked in Belfast last week . |
| 10 | But that 's what you got to be in this job . |