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Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] in " in BNC.

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1	Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb .
2	After the race they seemed to be coming up a little more , and by the time we arrived back in Britain I was covered in them .
3	I was covered in blood ; my clothes were torn ; I was completely exhausted .
4	‘ When I looked up I was covered in blood .
5	‘ I said , ‘ My God ! ’ , and he said , ‘ What 's happened to you ? ’ because I was covered in blood , too .
6	By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did .
7	I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections .
8	" I was looking in the window of that Primrose Cottage .
9	No , it 's alright , I was looking in here , because I mean , it , I er , you know , I saw in the er , when I looked in the manual it said it did n't pay out on H I V , so it .
10	Good , fine , I 'm not surprised , I was looking in the wrong rate book was n't I ?
11	Gone in Keith 's house , I was looking in our garden .
12	And I was looking in the yesterday and they sell them in You Ca n't Go Wrong for five ninety nine for Robert .
13	I was supported in almost equal measure by a new-found friend .
14	The Arts : How I was exposed in 3½ hours
15	I tried to push her knees round but there was n't enough room ; I was wedged in the doorway , her arm still half round my neck .
16	I was charged in that name , I was sentenced in that name . ’
17	Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice .
18	Cassock and surplice , a black cassock and white surplice once I told you that my grandmother was once living with us , she used to delight in washing my surplice and ironing it up except me when I was singing in the choir , I did n't take a , the treble solos , that was after the choir used to sister of ours at least oh twenty men , and as many lads and youths the as I say Johnny was in the choir there was er the two brothers and there was Dick was a incense boy and his father was a manager to go in the , he used to have a red cassock and surplice , but he used to Dick 's dad was the incense swinger and they used to go about swinging incense and that , I do n't suppose they do that at all now , but er your first job as a choirboy was to pump the organ it , have you ever been in the church ?
19	As a result of a chance meeting in a Blackpool bar with a student journalist , I was featured in National Student in an article about disabled students .
20	She came to one of our mission hospitals when I was training in Australia . ’
21	I was lost in Sir Anthony 's wonderful story .
22	I was afraid that I was lost in the snow . ’
23	I laid it on the floor and I was hit in the back .
24	I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb .
25	I was hidden in a coffin and taken to a cemetery.Then I was disguised in priests garb .
26	‘ The green and white pills I was prescribed in Athens .
27	That particular Friday afternoon I was shut in my private office with Geoff Tulloch , one of the coming men in the organisation 's data-processing section .
28	They took me over to Cheapside and I was remanded in custody .
29	The noise had an insistent quality — like a small animal gnawing away at something or gathering food and stopping every few minutes to listen , as hard as I was listening in the dark of Mr Marr 's house .
30	I tell you our night really told you One night I was standing , we were getting ready to go out to do a show and I was ironing in the kitchen and it were about six o'clock at night and all of a sudden Rudy come flying at me like this all over me , I thought Christ not this time of bleeding night !