Example sentences of "[was/were] in [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 2 | The tapestries were in remarkably good condition when found but have been sent out for restoration several times this century and final work on the last two will be finished next June . |
| 3 | Commentators such as Brockway ( 1932 ) found appalling rural housing conditions in many areas of England between the wars : dwellings were in physically poor condition and insanitary , lacking water , electricity , ventilation or light . |
| 4 | ‘ The law were in tonight , then ? ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ You mean you were in tonight ? ’ |
| 6 | You get on your bike and find that old lady what were in here just now and you do n't let her out of your sight . |
| 7 | We did n't know you were in here . |
| 8 | ‘ They were in here tae . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Maggie said you were in here . |
| 10 | ‘ The two dykes who were in here that same night . |
| 11 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 12 | It was so cold the other day , you know last time we were in here . |
| 13 | But I mean that yesterday afternoon you 'd have thought the bloody things were in here would n't |
| 14 | I do n't know you were in here and I were in there , in your sitting room , she were happy to make tea , she were right working |
| 15 | From her knowledge of the continent she was able to give me useful information , advice , and travellers ' tips , and she suggested that I take with me a supply of those items which were in even shorter supply in France than in Britain , such as coffee and cigarettes , and use them as barter . |
| 16 | 6-3 down at half-time … they were in even bigger trouble at the start of the second half when Nick Beal raced through to score for Northampton … |
| 17 | At the 1981 Census three quarters of all female workers were in just four of the sixteen occupational orders , where they outnumbered men : personal services ( e.g. cleaners , hairdressers ) ; clerical ; professional workers in education , health and welfare ( i.e. school teachers and nurses ) and selling ( mainly shop assistants ) . |
| 18 | I bought an expensive photograph album with a padded cover and gold curlicues on it and spent ages arranging the photographs I had taken at his house so that they were in just the right order . |
| 19 | ‘ When Risdon arrived , Guppy and Marsh were in thoroughly high spirits , ’ Mr Curtis said . |
| 20 | Their shields were embossed with gold or silver ; their long , curved swords were in richly decorated scabbards . |
| 21 | In oxy-hemocyanin , too , the electronic spectrum , taken with the g-values from the ESR spectrum , shows that the copper(II) ions were in slightly distorted tetrahedral environments , and so the ready electron transfer to give tetrahedral Cu I could be understood . |
| 22 | The preliminaries on this occasion extended over a rather lengthy period and so the 150 or so guests were in pretty good form when we eventually sat down to one of the best ‘ function type ’ meals that I have ever enjoyed . |
| 23 | At the same time , the British were in distinctly worried mood . |
| 24 | ‘ The lovers were in today . ’ |
| 25 | They had just been moved into a new milking shed and they were in completely strange surroundings . |
| 26 | If Balliol was already down a back stair , he could mingle with this crowd of panic-stricken servants and nowise stand out , in his shirt and breeches , since others were in approximately the same state . |
| 27 | Other notable PJ successes were in hard fought campaigns for the governorships of the north-western provinces of Tucumán and Santa Fé , won , respectively , by a popular singer , Ramón " Palito " Ortega , and a former racing driver , Carlos Reutemann . |
| 28 | While most residents were in fairly frequent contact with relatives and friends from outside the home , one in five of those who spent all the last twelve months of their lives in a home had either no visitors at all or less than one visit a month . |
| 29 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 30 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |