Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room .
2 She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen .
3 If things were out in the open — and St Mirren did offer to meet any condition if I would stay — then I could make an honest decision about my future .
4 Lights were on in the primary school .
5 The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace .
6 We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train .
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