Example sentences of "[was/were] in a [noun] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked because I wanted to know if I would be in a job if Sharon was in a position to employ me . |
| 2 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 3 | But I was in a position to help him as I was his senior . |
| 4 | He sensed she was in a position to tell him . |
| 5 | The strange metallic noises continued at intervals , whenever he was in a position to hear them . |
| 6 | And then in the night when it was dark , the old keeper used to come there , open the top of the lid and shut the door , because she was in a she was in a loft do you see , above the kennels , with er an iron er ladder going up and down you see , and then shut the door on her there do you see and she could get in and out then from the chest . |
| 7 | Then she must sit in the sun before hauling it back up and altogether I was enraged and wished I was in a condition to show her how it should be done . |
| 8 | Rostov wondered if Burun was in a hurry to see them again . |