Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 2 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 3 | I was up in the Voltaire Suite in time to see the Princess of Wales , looking radiant in white , arrive with the Hon. |
| 4 | However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ? |
| 5 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 6 | ‘ But from where I was out in the audience I could n't properly see what he was doing to get that amazing sound — so of course I assumed he was playing bottleneck . |
| 7 | From where I was out in the audience I could n't see what Clarence White was doing — so I assumed he was playing bottleneck |
| 8 | But I quickly found out that they were just ‘ sussing me out ’ — seeing how tough I was — and when my novelty as a new boy wore off , I was out in the cold . |
| 9 | One day when I was out in the fields , I even spotted a peregrine falcon high up on one of its hunting trips . |
| 10 | And you told Maman that I was out in the woods . |
| 11 | I was listening to the radio when I was out in the car this morning and it 's coming down |
| 12 | Cos I remember , I remember picking it up and reading it , I was out in the garden at the time . |
| 13 | I was down in the workshops and I 've run a great splinter into my thumb . ’ |
| 14 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 15 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 16 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 17 | I was back in the post office at Adrar , empty-handed and imagining Joan to have died or to have found another man . |
| 18 | Ten minutes later I was back in the changing-room on my mobile bed wolfing tea and sandwiches , parts of which would eventually find their way into my now polypless colon . |
| 19 | And an hour after that I was back in the club sipping a whisky and soda and pondering what to have for dinner . |
| 20 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 21 | The next morning I was back in the park . |
| 22 | Then Charlie turned the oxygen valve onto full supply and I was back in the plane again . |
| 23 | Within a month I was back in the garden again catching up on the weeding . |
| 24 | So by November of the year I left Cambridge I was back in the black — being in the West End had enabled me to pay the overdraft off . |
| 25 | After a while I stopped telling myself I was n't going to be sick , and — resigned to the fact that I was going to have to throw up at some point — kept telling myself instead that I 'd manage to hold it in until I was back in the flat , and so do it in private , rather than into the gutter in front of people . |
| 26 | Then the curtains parted , and I was back in the City . |
| 27 | That 's not possible ; I was back in the house by one . ’ |
| 28 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 29 | Suddenly I was back in the presence of the unpredictable figure I 'd met in the library at Easterness that first night , and as uncertain now as then . |
| 30 | I was back in the dealing room looking vacantly into an empty conduit when Patterson emerged from the end office and escorted a guy to the lobby . |