Example sentences of "were [adv prt] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen . |
4 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
5 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
6 | Once they were out in the fresh air , away from this green tomb , their blood would cool . |
7 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
8 | They were back in a narrow country road and there were powerful lights behind them . |
9 | ‘ You have a lot of Asians and Caribbeans working in the foundry , but not so many in the other part , ’ Robyn observed , when they were back in the peaceful calm and comparative luxury of Wilcox 's office . |
10 | He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room . |
11 | They were back in the Chinese room Sara once more tried to guess whether anything was missing . |
12 | We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . |