Example sentences of "he [was/were] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |
| 2 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 3 | Then there was Whistler , who strode doggedly on in a frayed tweed overcoat , summer and winter , always with his head down as if he were in the teeth of a gale , shrilly whistling — in perfect tune — a repertoire which extended from old music hall to Elgar . |
| 4 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 5 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 6 | She called Alexandra ‘ Charlotte ’ and spoke of far off things , but of Richard even more often , usually as if he were in the room with her . |
| 7 | But he was in no sense putting on an act . |
| 8 | Finniston also believes that choosing a good successor is an important duty of a chairman , but as chairman of a nationalised industry he was in no position to do so . |
| 9 | But Taylor 's staff checked with Downing Street — and discovered he was in no position to offer anything . |
| 10 | While he was in no position to read her the Riot Act , it was plain commonsense to discourage her from her present ways . |
| 11 | Edward made a formal protest , but he was in no position to do more . |
| 12 | In these conditions he was in no position to ride rough-shod over the interests of either the Church or the nobility , and in the mid sixteenth century there were momentary signs that the wealthier commoners were gaining a modicum of political leverage . |
| 13 | Clara , clasped to the young man 's bosom , reflected that he was in no position to notice her lack of grace . |
| 14 | It might be said that at the time of the signing of the document he was in no position to resist both the seizure of all his goods under a distress and the forfeiture of his lease with no practical possibility of relief . |
| 15 | Tolstoy attaches great importance to the change of wording in the signal of 23 May , referring to a " verbal directive " , as if this implied that on 13 May Macmillan had not just " advised " but had in effect given an order , which he was in no position to do . |
| 16 | She wanted dearly to inform him in no uncertain terms that he was in no position to make personal remarks of any kind to her , but she had an uneasy suspicion that any further rebukes on that score would only somehow backfire on her . |
| 17 | He was in no state to break such news to a woman like Mrs Browning whose sensibilities were tender at the best of times . |
| 18 | He was in no state to form an idea of what we were talking about . |
| 19 | But he was in no way repentant , for he had parried this by saying he wished he had killed him and if he ever came across him again he would make another attempt . |
| 20 | After the first shock he was in no way abashed by the grandeur of Stephen 's estate . |
| 21 | This arrogant summons Seton ignored , for as acting Governor of Berwick he was in no way subordinate to the castle 's Keeper , and held his appointment directly from the Regent . |
| 22 | Leavis , a radical socialist before 1950 , turned briefly liberal before adopting in his last years a bitterly conservative stance that favoured no party of state , hating economic growth and the European Community , so that long before his death in 1978 his idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly ; but though always outside religion , he was in no way hostile to it , and admired its moral seriousness . |
| 23 | He was in no way concerned with those issues which must concern us . |
| 24 | He was in no way a precursor of " committed " drama — it was , in his case , a question of the scope and ambition of understanding . |
| 25 | Besides , he was in no way the youth she had envisaged . |
| 26 | You saw him , he was in no case and no mind to hold anything back , nor has he done so . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course , when he was on a binge he was in no shape to have sex , so he brought it in . |
| 28 | ‘ The moment I got behind the wheel , he went on a binge , and he was in no shape to drive , so I was his chauffeur for three days , three days without sleep . |
| 29 | He wanted the best for his new model Colonial Service , and he was in no doubt as to where he would find it . |
| 30 | He was in no doubt but that this was the case . |