Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] [pron] was [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shot him between the eyes and then I was off , down the smallest streets , and I did n't stop pedalling until I was back in this Villa Baderini , which , as a matter of fact , used to be my father 's . |
| 2 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 3 | But it is difficult to make anything of the sort of entry which assesses the rector at nil and omits the chaplain 's name , implying that he was not in his post . |
| 4 | A statement by Gorbachev , saying that he was again in control of the country , was broadcast before his return to Moscow that evening . |
| 5 | He gave little thought to it then , reasoning that she was not in such grave earnest that she would actually attempt to turn her indignant dream into action . |
| 6 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 7 | ( The Japanese government nevertheless announced that it would resume a major aid programme to China which had been frozen in 1989 , arguing that it was not in the interest of the world to try to isolate China . ) |
| 8 | felt it had not helped embalming as it was not in a sufficiently dignified manner . |
| 9 | During my years in Oxford , working as I was largely in the field of recent Anglican ecclesiastical history , I was increasingly drawn to Anglicanism . |