Example sentences of "the [noun] were [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I mean me I it may be inappropriate at this moment in time to say we will do it now because of obvious reasons but prior to the recession it was an ongoing thing that the the board were in through the general manager were actually writing to many companies . |
| 2 | And that meant in many cases , that the toilets were out in the garden and one toilet was serving about four houses . |
| 3 | And , if only the Vatican were in on the conspiracy , it could never operate . |
| 4 | ‘ All the cars were out on the forecourt and priced and the staff were very helpful . |
| 5 | She has the whip-hand for the first time since the cock-up over the separation when they had to apologise for making it known that the knives were out for the Duchess . |
| 6 | ‘ The kids were out in the lake on one of those pedal boats . |
| 7 | The Jews were back in the ground again . |
| 8 | Well one of you on cleaning fruit , getting all the stalks and stones out of the fruit , we used to have a sieve , not a riddle , a sieve with round , the wires were round in the sieve and you rub it , and the stalks would drop through and then you 'd put them out onto an iron baking sheet and sort out all the stones that and little bits that were in the fruit and you 'd be on cleaning fruit you might be one day , the other whichever one was the you 'd be cleaning and greasing baking tins , ready for the baker to put the cakes in or what have you , and then at night we used to grease all the bread tins ready for men to be allowed to drop the dough into the bread tins , and er stuff like that and cleaning up scrubbing down and |
| 9 | The shoes were back on the desk top . |
| 10 | The blinds were down in the study to protect new furnishings from the sun , and the light was subfusc and aqueous . |
| 11 | By Monday evening the Wycliffes were back at The Watch House , their home outside the city where he had his headquarters , and on Tuesday morning he was in his office . |
| 12 | All the Alpha Betas and most of the Gammas were out on the landing and they ran out of room . |
| 13 | All the balloons were up in the Channel when we finally got there , and we dodged all around them trying to find the closest field in England . |
| 14 | This is so irrespective of whose possession the goods were in at the time . |
| 15 | The lights were on over the airfield when we landed and ‘ Deemy ’ showed me to the Russian equivalent of the American B.O.Q. adjoining a very handsome and well-furnished Officers ' Lounge and Recreation Room . |
| 16 | The lights were on inside the hut . |
| 17 | The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena . |
| 18 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 19 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 20 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 21 | In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven . |
| 22 | The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs . |
| 23 | Even on weekdays there were problems in booking caddies because members who , say , arrived at lunchtime might discover that all the caddies were out on the course , and there was no way of telling whether they were also booked for the afternoon ! |
| 24 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 25 | Ross admits to being a little disappointed at the level of basic skills when he arrived , adding : ‘ A lot of the mistakes were down to the mental approach and lack of concentration , but , having said that , the attitude and determination of the players has been excellent throughout the season . ’ |
| 26 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 27 | Its rudder and fin were both knocked out , and a four-foot-long gash in the shell meant even repairs on the bank were out of the question , reinforcing complaints about the lack of driftwood clearance on the river this year . |
| 28 | In fact , the coach — drawn by two grey horses — was only called into service once the couple were out of the public gaze . |
| 29 | The sharply lower rhodium price depressed revenues in the chemicals and refining business and profits for the year were down on the previous period . |
| 30 | All the hives were up on the moor , and there was little to do except check that no fieldmice were getting into them , sniff them to detect foul brood , listen for late swarms , and cut out a comb from any that weighed too full . |