Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The day was faintly foggy ; lights were on on the tall hazy meccano sculptures of oil rigs moored in the Firth . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | The lights were on inside the hut . |
| 34 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 37 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 38 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 39 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | The erm , yes Camco 's profits were down in the U S , but Penguin North America was substantially up , erm and Addison Wesley of course was up in erm dollar terms . |
| 43 | By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov . |
| 44 | The immigration procedures , even for Nadirpur , were a mere formality , and in under ten minutes all four passengers were through to the arrivals lounge . |
| 45 | 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 ! |
| 46 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 47 | Yeah and we 've seen some different erm they had I think it was actually waiver paper as well when Murdoch bought it , and for a while he honoured the political content and then he decided he was gon na do major changes , and this may all sound familiar to you but erm the effect that that had I mean not only on the , on the , on the end up being this side , but also on erm the Mirror because it meant that Page Three Girls were in on the Daily Record in Scotland erm it was , it was quite profound I mean there 's a broader argument here as to whether you you should get pampered to those possible denominator to taste erm it 's interesting that the Daily Sport and the Sunday Sport which are two I do n't know if they have anything like it in Japan , but they 're a bit like the National Enquirer erm it 's all made up baseball there 's a sad proportion of erm journalist stories of fantasy land stuff erm along with erm photographic content and er copy content which probably |
| 48 | Only Telford Tigers were out of the running . |
| 49 | Street lamps were on in the distance , greenish or blobs of orange light . |
| 50 | And that meant in many cases , that the toilets were out in the garden and one toilet was serving about four houses . |
| 51 | We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train . |
| 52 | Calving and kidding times were chosen so that milk production was at a peak when skiers and tourists were around in the spring and summer . |
| 53 | When you rang up that Saturday and checked the registration of the Rolls , I thought the police were on to the Theale murder . ’ |
| 54 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 55 | Next moment , both men were out of the cab and sprinting back towards the blazing house . |
| 56 | ‘ If I told you lessons were over for the day and you could go swimming , no doubt a miraculous recovery would take place . |
| 57 | 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 . ’ |
| 58 | No doubt many more boys were up to the same tricks , but convention ruled that they were better able to look after themselves . |
| 59 | He 'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead , a bunch of lace at his chin A coat of the claret velvet , and breeches of brown doe-skin : They fitted with never a wrinkle ; his boots were up to the thigh ! |
| 60 | His boots were up to the thigh , and he rode with a jewelled twinkle , his pistols but a twinkle , his rapier hilt a twinkle under the jewelled sky . |