Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv prt] in the [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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room . |
| 12 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 13 | Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies . |
| 14 | They were back in the Chinese room Sara once more tried to guess whether anything was missing . |
| 15 | We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |
| 20 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 21 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 22 | She was back in the other chair watching me , a curiously intent look on her face . |
| 23 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 24 | He stressed that GRE was back in the black due to significant improvement in its non-life insurance business , particularly in the UK . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
| 27 | Carole Swan was back in the Grand Hotel around midnight . |
| 28 | She was back in the abandoned warehouse . |
| 29 | She was back in the proper life . |
| 30 | Here she felt lonely and depressed , as it seemed as if she 'd made no progress and was back in the same vicious circle again . |