Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the transformation was quite extraordinary over the festive season , and the team deserved to be in that position by the end of their campaign . |
| 2 | My leg muscles seemed to be in some daze of quivering tension . |
| 3 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 4 | He just happened to be in this area on the night of Rob 's party . |
| 5 | I had a friend , she now manages the Eurythmics with her husband , but at that time , none of us needed to be in such luxury but none of us said no if it was offered and DeFries always observed the Noel Coward code and said , ‘ You should travel through life first class . ’ |
| 6 | But that 's what you got to be in this job . |
| 7 | I never chose to be in this position . ’ |
| 8 | And when Eagles ' David Mycoe grabbed a try in the 45th minute Wigan looked to be in some danger . |
| 9 | His brain , never an overactive organ even on those rare moments when it was n't pickled in alcohol , grappled with the fact that he appeared to be in some sort of tent before triumphantly reaching the conclusion that he was at a party . |
| 10 | Although President George Bush won the primary , his margin of victory over right-wing challenger Patrick Buchanan was unconvincing , and by the end of the month the Bush campaign appeared to be in some disarray . |
| 11 | Sweden continued to be in some ways deeply divided even after the coup d'état by which Gustavus III reasserted in 1772 the power of the monarchy . |
| 12 | I 'm only sorry it had to be in such circumstances of stress . |
| 13 | Cautious of it , of course , as one had to be in any den of thieves where pickpockets and cut-purses abounded . |
| 14 | ‘ Mac , ’ as of course he was known , would promise to bring down the wrath of almighty God on them if he found them in the Trocadero , Elephant and Castle , when they should be ‘ capable of , and available for work , ’ as one had to be in those days . |