Example sentences of "be [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last three days ten novice sailors have been out in the Western Approaches , sailing in winds of 40 knots or more through occasional sleet showers . |
| 2 | Although you may get ridiculously low because of pressing on too hard , when , a few minutes later , you are back in the good conditions several thousand feet up , you must forget the wasted time and concentrate on flying normally . |
| 3 | The fact remains that he was murdered on the night after his father 's funeral and if the two are unconnected we are back in the funny coincidences department . |
| 4 | Time they get to about sixteen or seventeen you know they can be up in the top players . |
| 5 | The primitive mammals that happened to be around in the three areas when the dinosaurs more or less simultaneously vacated the great life trades , were all rather small and insignificant , probably nocturnal , previously overshadowed and overpowered by the dinosaurs . |
| 6 | Had the paparazzi been around in the early days of his marriage it 's doubtful Philip would have escaped criticism . |
| 7 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 8 | The show is up in the other rooms . |
| 9 | I say openly that the greatest guarantee for the preservation of world peace today is round in the international investments of capitalism . |
| 10 | happier when it was back in the old feet and inches . |
| 11 | No one was about in the suburban roads and avenues . |