Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Lights were on in the primary school .
2 Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road .
3 She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen .
4 The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace .
5 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 .
6 By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold .
7 Once they were out in the fresh air , away from this green tomb , their blood would cool .
8 His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days .
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 They were back in a narrow country road and there were powerful lights behind them .
11 ‘ You have a lot of Asians and Caribbeans working in the foundry , but not so many in the other part , ’ Robyn observed , when they were back in the peaceful calm and comparative luxury of Wilcox 's office .
12 He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room .
13 Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
14 Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
15 They were back in the Chinese room Sara once more tried to guess whether anything was missing .
16 We were back in the sultry heat of the valley .
17 The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again .
18 It was over in a few seconds .
19 so I decided I 'd have a go in a factory , aha , and I come in it was over in the other place , the noise was unbelievable , really unbelievable .
20 The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country .
21 ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’
22 Running out , he was back in a dark antagonistic Holland with a saviour he had forgotten , who said , ‘ I am the Light . ’
23 That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since .
24 That was back in the early sixties .
25 She was back in the other chair watching me , a curiously intent look on her face .
26 By the 8th June , I was back in the front line .
27 He stressed that GRE was back in the black due to significant improvement in its non-life insurance business , particularly in the UK .
28 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 .
29 Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ?
30 Carole Swan was back in the Grand Hotel around midnight .
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