Example sentences of "[is] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a wonder it 's still here but it 's no wonder it 's in such a God-forsaken state … ’ |
| 2 | Daddy 's in such a state . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She 's in such agony , ’ stormed Perdita , ‘ why do n't we just put her out of her misery ? ’ |
| 4 | Say if it 's in such a secluded place you know if you 're gon na be there for twenty , er for days , there 's no help |
| 5 | Er and again I do n't know er it 's only my thoughts that everybody 's in such a hurry today through pressure of this and pressure of that . |
| 6 | As I 've told her , now that she 's left him and his personal life 's in such a mess , perhaps he 'll do what these managerial types usually do in such circumstances , and throw himself into his work . " |
| 7 | That 's why the country 's in such a mess , that 's what I always say . ’ |
| 8 | Why do you think the world 's in such a fucking mess ? ’ |
| 9 | I mean this is basically she 's she already books some flats and house a house because self-catering accommodation 's in such short supply because of long lets over the winter . |
| 10 | He says that they mounted an undercover operation to get to the horse — it 's in such a bad way it may have to be put down . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's in such a terrible state . |
| 12 | Thing is that he 's in er he 's in such a pickle , he 's doing what I can understand him doing it cos I 'd do it , he 's kind of just putting it off having to sort it out . |
| 13 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 14 | But he 's in such a bad mood at the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's in many articles , ’ he shot back quickly , then paused , a little insecure . |
| 16 | Individually the trips cost around £13–£14 each , but if you buy them all , we 'll give you a free discount booklet saving you £££ 's in many discos , bars and restaurants in resort . |
| 17 | It can not be pretended that either scholar 's career is entirely typical of its period-Hocazade 's career is unusually chaotic even for the later fifteenth century , Civizade 's in many respects unusually " regular " even for the later sixteenth century-but the degree to which they are atypic is not sufficient to give a misleading impression . |
| 18 | So , it , it 's in many ways a , a book that , that looks two ways , as it were , back and , and forward . |
| 19 | I mean this is just the areas that I 've touched on , and again it 's in many cases it 's only fringe . |
| 20 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 21 | She 's in that sort of mold . |
| 22 | When he 's in that mood , nowt scares him . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He 's in that awkward stage between Bart Simpson and the next craze ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What 's in that paper ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Christine 's in that , ’ chorused three at the back . |
| 26 | What 's in that basket ? ’ she demanded . |
| 27 | Yet his spirit , united with Dorn 's in that exquisite agonizing pang , in that orgasmus of death , would transmigrate into a being of boiling ionized gas . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's in that box ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I bought a new coat as well , it 's in that other box . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but I brought some in earlier ; it 's in that bucket there , and there 's peat there , too , and it 's dry . |