Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was right out in the open and the wind was blowing towards us . |
| 2 | The collapse of the Empire in 1814 and the fall of Napoleon I brought about a dispersal of the Imperial House and although the return of Napoleon from Elba in 1815 led to a restoration of the family fortunes , it was all over in the Hundred Days . |
| 3 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 4 | But Collins was soon back in the thick of the action , fisting clear a McCaffrey free kick and throwing himself across his line to make a fine two handed stop from a Kavanagh volley . |
| 5 | Corinth could afford to be indifferent to the vengeance Athens took against Samos ; Megara was what mattered to Corinth , and Megara was now back in the Peloponnesian camp . |