Example sentences of "were [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They show that those tests have nothing to do with the amount spent per pupil in individual authority areas — some of the biggest spenders were right down at the bottom . |
| 2 | Erm it may be that the people who were right down at the bottom like that were people who were doing other things as well and were say blacksmiths or whatever |
| 3 | ‘ They came to an uninhabited hut where they made a fire to dry their clothes , for all of them were wet through to the skin , and an old sail was spread upon the bare ground , which served as a bed for the Prince , who was very well pleased with it and slept soundly . ’ |
| 4 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 5 | At one time Lancashire 's reply seemed very likely to even less than that as Albert Ward , Sugg , Smith and Briggs were all back in the pavilion with only 21 on the board . |
| 6 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 7 | By 10pm , they were all back in the House to hear that the government had won by three votes . |
| 8 | Now she was a mother of five and the three young ones were all down with the fever . |
| 9 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 10 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 11 | The place would be in a rush and a turmoil until they were all out in the field and Joe was sure enough of the neighbours who had come to help . |
| 12 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 13 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 14 | It was hushed as a mid-week chapel inside H3 because Carol and her typing tribe were all out in the rain with banners bearing crudely daubed exhortations to the government to raise their pay . |
| 15 | The village was decked with flags and flowers , with garlands of leaves between the trees and over the doors of all the cottages , and the villagers were all out in the street , the children playing in their best white frilled dresses and shirts . |
| 16 | Sales varied but were well down by the end of the 1980s , and the paper remained a rather marginal venture . |
| 17 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 18 | Now when I came to see you , I think it were earlier on in the year and I 've been to see er the other doctors . |
| 19 | The Mexican boy and his father were both up on the boot . |
| 20 | Garth McGimpsey and Raymond Burns were both out on the Valley today after overnight 75s . |