Example sentences of "was [verb] in that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Then in June 1946 , the 1st Bucks Battalion was placed in that curious condition known as ‘ suspended animation ’ while stationed at Ghent . |
2 | Farriery was wanting in that fundamental science . |
3 | ‘ Do you mean that you started writing Jane Eyre while I was lying in that dark room in Manchester ? ’ |
4 | Some convicted men went over the wall and the judge , who was born in that very prison , called for an improvement in security at the prison . |
5 | It was born in that self-confident time when other changes she had doggedly forced past party muttering had been rewarded by a step-change in productivity and relatively low inflation . |
6 | Inspired , Yeremi sprayed a stream of incandescent rainbow plasma gobbets at a defence laser which was tracking in that forbidden direction , and rejoiced to see its shield fail and the shark-snouted gun warp and drip like a lugubrious runny nose . |
7 | But do you know , me cousin Eric , who 's quite a lot older than me , was at Scarborough with me Uncle and and his mother and dad and he was only a little one and he was stood in that narrow street that goes off , off the |
8 | Time and again , she had cast her mind back to before Maisie was lost in that tragic fire . |
9 | You take a man like Christopher Marlowe : I was with him when he was murdered in that private house . |