Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] there [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think about the same time as Walter for the war was declared when we were down there on the third of September . |
| 2 | And while they were up there in the wide , blue yonder , they jabbered non-stop to each other over the radio . |
| 3 | I was down there in the late fifties |
| 4 | As far as teeth flags go , though , it was up there with the best of ‘ em . |
| 5 | We used to have a lot of good nights like that and this was up there among the best . |
| 6 | Louisa looked away , out of the window — how she wished she was out there in the frosty air , in the simplicity of the Lodge , alone , in the one place where her tarnished star-fire might begin to gleam again . |