Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [was/were] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it comes to light that I was in that house with Adam and the others , he thought with cold clarity , if someone tells the papers , or the police and thence the papers , that I was there during the summer of 1976 , living there , it will be all up with me . |
| 2 | And that was my problem with it was that I was in much in terms of being able to go into the classroom an and talk to the kids and have a really good relationship with the teachers and things . |
| 3 | ‘ It was through their trust that I was in this unique position to walk among them , and I felt I owed it to them not to let them down . ’ |
| 4 | Again I was making no contact with the flying control and as I did not have a WT operator I could not use my wireless set to inform the station that I was in this predicament . |
| 5 | Lest anybody should have got the idea from my August column that I was in some way in favour of four-year funding of students of architecture , let me set the record straight . |
| 6 | I always gave my husband the benefit of the doubt and ‘ buried ’ his brutality because I was so ashamed and felt that I was in some way to blame . |
| 7 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 8 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 9 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 10 | Miss Danziger also had it in her favour that she was in all things the opposite of Bo-Bo . |
| 11 | I was lucky that she was in most of my lessons but the lessons that she was n't in I would sit with the other friends from Stonham Aspel . |
| 12 | Mr Morton , speaking after the launch in America of an updated version of his book , said : ‘ A campaign began to build up against Diana that she was mad and mentally unstable , that she was somehow bending reality , did n't tell the truth and that she was in some way responsible for this book . ’ |
| 13 | Well , that you were in this afternoon . |
| 14 | It perplexed us that we were in such a remote spot . |
| 15 | What was the matter with the young of these days that they were in such haste to destroy themselves ? |
| 16 | At one time she felt Charlotte turn towards her husband , and knew that they were in each other 's arms . |
| 17 | ‘ One day we went for a walk in woods to the north of London near Barnet , I think , I no longer recall the name , except that they were in those days very pretty and lonely woods for a place so near London . |
| 18 | As members of a Pathfinder Squadron they were allowed to wear a small brass albatross on their left breast pocket , immediately under their wings , and this was the only indication to anyone outside the RAF that they were in any way out of the ordinary . |
| 19 | Ministers believed the same , asserting as had been asserted when they were created that they were in some way different from the universities . |
| 20 | The most important common feature among them was that they did not have absolute rights over the land which they farmed , but that they were in some way dependent on a lord , who had a right to some part of their labour or their profits from the land . |
| 21 | This is hypothetical , of course , but Sweeney Agonistes had demonstrated that it was in such drama , rather than social realism , that his theatrical talents really lay . |
| 22 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 23 | Sullivan ) , we have to acknowledge that it was in many ways an attractive society , and an admirable one . |
| 24 | Or at least they start , both books really start with the same issue , and the issue in question is in many ways , well , you could argue that it was in many ways fundamental to the social sciences . |
| 25 | It was simply guesswork that it was in that place that some of the Western hostages were kept . |
| 26 | The appellants applied to discharge the registrar 's order on the ground , firstly , that it was in all the circumstances oppressive and secondly , that it amounted to the use of section 236(2) for a purpose not intended by Parliament . |
| 27 | And for the buyers there was the knowledge that it was in all a good cause . |
| 28 | Hank was just about to say , in order to irritate his mother , that it was in another school district and he would , therefore , have to change schools , when he remembered that he was no longer at school , and shut his mouth . |
| 29 | I knew that he too would tell me I was wrong and that it was in another part of the country . |
| 30 | If Greg Martin was alive then was it possible … was there the chance that it was in any way possible that her mother was alive too ? |