Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 2 | Mattan and the yellow jersey were right in the middle of the pack as it peddled hard in the blistering heat . |
| 3 | And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front . |
| 4 | And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did . |
| 5 | As they were rarely in the office together , he found his orders constantly changing . |
| 6 | I simply thought I should warn you that they were effectively in a garret … |
| 7 | Think what sort of murders were most in the public eye at the period you want to write about , because there are fashions in murder . |
| 8 | Animals were much in the news . |
| 9 | Spies were all around ; they were literally in the wiring and the woodwork . |
| 10 | Six died he were , he were only in a week |
| 11 | Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive |
| 12 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |
| 13 | The stay in hospital were less in the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( mean 4.3 v 7.1 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 14 | On the other hand , if Scottish political life in the counties is assumed to be explained by the suggestion that bribery was all in all , this would be a misleading impression , for many freeholders were less in the pocket of a political manager than the managers themselves would have liked to think , or conventional accounts would suggest . |
| 15 | They were together in the kitchen deciding what to have . |
| 16 | I did elicit the information that Fishbane was five years ahead of him and that briefly they were together in the school choir . ’ |
| 17 | She and Grubb were together in the team that won the Nations Cup in Washington , before she went on to take the Toronto World Cup round . |
| 18 | At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room . |
| 19 | Making an extraordinary number of handling errors and under-using the speed in their backs , Widnes were scarcely in the hunt . |
| 20 | Population prevalences , where given , ranged from 13 to 74 per 100000 but were generally in the region of 50 per 100000 . |
| 21 | So the the their thoughts were away in the past and they had n't moved I thought and I learned later that my thoughts were correct . |
| 22 | The craving for meat seemed to grow with the cold ; chickens were sometimes killed and eaten but never gratuitously , only in sacrifice at the gods ' demand , and the sheep and goats were away in the south . |
| 23 | Seaman comments that that presentation Another and concordant view is recorded by Lichtheim : Lichtheim goes on to quote Pease , then Secretary of the Fabian Society , as saying : ‘ We were thus in a position to welcome the formation of working class Socialist societies , but it is certain that they would never have welcomed us ’ ; and to add , perhaps unkindly : ‘ Beatrice Potter — a rich , spoiled , arrogant young woman with more beauty than brains — was determined to have as little as possible to do with the working class . ’ |
| 24 | That is the nature of the self-punishment which Britain inflicted on itself by maintaining in its law the assertion that citizens of other countries , wholly independent and acknowledging a different head of state , were nevertheless in every respect members of the single category of ‘ British subjects ’ , possessing within the United Kingdom the rights that attach to that category . |
| 25 | Those who had already received the carapace and graduated to the status of probationer-superhumanity were elsewhere in the galaxy fighting as terror troops . |
| 26 | When Miss Honey emerged from the Headmistress 's study , most of the children were outside in the playground . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 28 | even this time of the year , over Christmas and January we were outside in the morning having our breakfast every day were n't we Alec ? |
| 29 | ‘ I figure he went over the fence here , ’ said Prentice when we were outside in the rain once more . |
| 30 | Their running was impeded by the mass of men coming out of the main doors and scattering in all directions , and heads down , they made their way between them to the back of the Naafi and into the rest room , which was empty ; and they were just in the process of taking off their wet top coats when the supervisor came in , saying , ‘ Oh , I 'm in luck ; I was about to send to the hut for help . |