Example sentences of "were [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 2 | The lights were on in all the houses up Maple Drive . |
| 3 | It was a pleasant afternoon and my thoughts were on In Salah one hundred and eighty miles away . |
| 4 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 5 | Street lamps were on in the distance , greenish or blobs of orange light . |
| 6 | The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena . |
| 7 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 8 | No lights were on in any of the houses and the only living thing in sight was a brindled cat who froze on the pavement , surveyed the bleak October night , and padded arrogantly across the road . |
| 9 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 10 | They were on in the funfairs on the prom |
| 11 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 12 | Lights were on in all the rooms facing the front and the curtains were drawn . |
| 13 | No doubt they were down in the cellar sheltering from the bombardment . |
| 14 | To think that during the Blitz , families , stout-hearted folk , were down in these caverns holding hands beneath blankets and whistling the stirring refrains of Dame Vera Lynn . |
| 15 | She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen . |
| 16 | They were down in the order book at four and eight pence . |
| 17 | Masts , sails and cordage were down in tangled confusion , the proud ships suddenly mere lumbering hulks of wreckage emitting the screams of injured men . |
| 18 | A question I would ask is that given the product which you had in June and the fact that presumably you have to take what goes , presumably the fact that they do n't send you the strongest stuff erm are you surprised that the figures were down in view of the quality of what you had , or are you surprised it might not have been worse ? |
| 19 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 20 | ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him . |
| 21 | Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road . |
| 22 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |
| 23 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 24 | The erm , yes Camco 's profits were down in the U S , but Penguin North America was substantially up , erm and Addison Wesley of course was up in erm dollar terms . |
| 25 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 26 | You were down in Minya Province running after that gipsy girl . ’ |
| 27 | The blinds were down in the study to protect new furnishings from the sun , and the light was subfusc and aqueous . |
| 28 | If Kirsty had fallen ill once they were down in London she would have been forced to stay there until she 'd recovered — and then she would have been in serious trouble , not only with Jake but with the law as well . |
| 29 | Once you were down in London ? ’ |
| 30 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |