Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] was in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I pleaded guilty because I realised I was in breach of my contract and expected to be punished . |
| 2 | George Burley 's door , two along from mine , was wide open , and I found he was in residence , dressed but asleep , quietly snoring in his armchair . |
| 3 | Right now , I mentioned it was in aid of charity , how , how are you going on , on the charity side of things ? |
| 4 | I believed he was in safe hands . |
| 5 | From the deadness of sound , I judged I was in the main roof-space . |
| 6 | I guessed he was in his forties and he had a hard face with small wary eyes and tightly curled hair that was cut very short . |
| 7 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 8 | I heard she was in hospital . |
| 9 | I felt I was in a time-warp . |
| 10 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 11 | I felt I was in a prisoner-of-war camp . ’ |
| 12 | For a while I felt I was in heaven , eating and drinking in the warm , pretty room , with kind Miss Temple and Helen . |
| 13 | In the gloom I felt I was in some kind of an enclosure and told the rear gunner to get out and find out where we were . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt it was in our interests to renegotiate the deal . |
| 15 | Gaston went on heavily , ‘ I told her I knew she was in love with me . |
| 16 | And by the time they came back ( yes , it was Crete : I 'd guessed , but he had n't flickered , the duplicitous bastard ) , I knew I was in love . |
| 17 | I saw he had been drinking , and I knew I was in a very dangerous situation . |
| 18 | I knew I was in great danger . |
| 19 | It mocked me , but at the same time I knew I was in danger of surrendering to it , that damned semblance of what I wanted — I was being weakened by it , seduced into yielding to your power over me , and it 's so much more comprehensive than my one-dimensional influence on you . |
| 20 | But it suddenly took a flier and I knew I was in trouble . |
| 21 | Then , when I knew I was in love with you … and I thought you were n't free … ’ |
| 22 | And I 'm going to begin by telling you everything … the exact moment when I knew I was in love with you … the things I love about you . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew I was in a race against time so I set about altering the gear box myself . |
| 24 | I knew it was in my heart . |
| 25 | The next thing I knew it was in the back of the net and I was celebrating . |
| 26 | Producer John Hughes , a father of two , said : ‘ The second one was easier to write because I knew who was in it . |
| 27 | For example , there was a chap I knew who was in Simon House and the rules of the house are that you 've got to stay off the drink , and unfortunately he had a slip and went back on it . |
| 28 | ‘ He is not the most robust horse but I knew he was in good shape . |
| 29 | THE MOMENT Morrissey unfurled that Union Jack I knew he was in trouble , I assumed that the ‘ Is Morrissey A Racist ? ’ debate was a discredited old chestnut , but now it 's back , bigger than ever . |
| 30 | ‘ The first I knew he was in Beirut was when he rang me . ’ |