Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] was [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And also there was something in Lesley 's appeal that engaged her sympathy in a way she hesitated to analyse . |
| 2 | The elliptical phraseology of the law , amounting in places to ambiguity , obscures the cut-on point for gentility , if indeed there was one in vew of the presence in the musters and subsidy rolls of a not inconsiderable number of gentlemen of extremely limited means . |
| 3 | It was not , as Elizabeth said , about herself and me — and yet there was something in it of our predicament , that of two correspondents who have never met . |
| 4 | And yet there was something in his tone which sent fresh shivers along her nerve-ends . |
| 5 | She felt guilty that the love between them was all one way , and yet there was nothing in this world that she could do to change her feelings . |