Example sentences of "[prep] be in [pos pn] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the balance of gains and losses , the nationalised Area Boards were certainly more frugal than their predecessors had expected to be in their capital expenditure . |
| 2 | oh yes , oh I know Dora she used to be in our dancing troop |
| 3 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 4 | At the teacher 's suggestion I then found myself colouring some swing tickets at happened to be in my knitting bag and attaching these to a very poor piece of knitting . |
| 5 | Years later , even , when 617 just happened to be in my Canberra Wing at Binbrook after the war , oddly enough both Nos 617 and 9 Squadrons found themselves together in my four-squadron wing . |
| 6 | Benjamin Titford , we must say , was not quite as elevated socially as he appears to be in his water-colour portrait ; or rather , he had only recently become so — which was good enough , after all , for any Victorian member of the nouveaux-riches . |