Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke … |
| 2 | ‘ The kids were out in the lake on one of those pedal boats . |
| 3 | The Jews were back in the ground again . |
| 4 | Within minutes of being released by the police , these youngsters were back in an amusement arcade . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I know for a fact that these nets were back in the river , in the hands of poachers , a very short time after they have been captured by the commission . ’ |
| 7 | The blinds were down in the study to protect new furnishings from the sun , and the light was subfusc and aqueous . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If things were out in the open — and St Mirren did offer to meet any condition if I would stay — then I could make an honest decision about my future . |
| 10 | The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side . |
| 11 | Lights were on in the primary school . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 14 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 15 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 16 | The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Street lamps were on in the distance , greenish or blobs of orange light . |
| 21 | And that meant in many cases , that the toilets were out in the garden and one toilet was serving about four houses . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The case was not contested , so the court proceedings were over in a day . |
| 25 | Dunan and twenty Hearthwares were out in the Circle to keep an eye on them anyway . |