Example sentences of "was in a great " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was in a great state of elation . |
| 2 | And in the end , of course , he looked through the keyhole — or made one in her steel door with his sword-point according to one version — and there she was in a great marble bath disporting herself . |
| 3 | Ryan 's father 's house was small , really not much bigger than Lorna Lewis 's guest cottage , but it was in a great situation right at the top of the canyon . |
| 4 | Josie was in a great deal of pain when I first met her . |
| 5 | The hay was in a great mound . |
| 6 | McMillan was kept in hospital overnight as a precaution and was in a great deal of pain with his dislocated shoulder , plus the cuts and bruises he had to suffer . |
| 7 | He was in a great tradition of Egyptian tomb dwellers . |
| 8 | ‘ Yet what the Romans did to other nations , was in a great degree done by Cromwell to the Scots : he civilized them by conquest , and introduced by useful violence the arts of peace . ’ |
| 9 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |