Example sentences of "was [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feeling was mostly in the eyes . |
| 2 | if you were having a girl it was mostly in the front , but er that was n't true really |
| 3 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 4 | It was right in the centre of the town , next to the Cathedral , and only two or three minutes walk away from the Sheriff Court . |
| 5 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 6 | I was right in the middle of a sentence . |
| 7 | He worked out where The Bar was on his maps , and then checked this perspective against the actual view — from where he saw the city it looked like The Bar was right in the middle of it , not hidden away at all like it was on the map . |
| 8 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 9 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 10 | In Cornwall , parts of Devon , western Somerset , and the Welsh borderlands , in particular , medieval settlement was predominantly in the form of hamlets and farmsteads . |
| 11 | It was nevertheless US equipment that was most in the news , after the struggle in Congress to carry through the sale of F-15 Eagles to Saudi Arabia in the face of resolute opposition from Israel and its supporters in the American legislature . |
| 12 | Until November 1989 political power was effectively in the hands of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSC or CPCz ) . |
| 13 | No the li the lights was on in the tunnel . |
| 14 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 15 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 16 | And The Boys from Brazil was on in the evening . |
| 17 | The television was on in the living room . |
| 18 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 19 | This was somewhere in the centre of town . |
| 20 | I was somewhere in the middle . |
| 21 | I was somewhere in the middle , jog-trotting laboriously with the rest and wondering how much longer I could keep going . |
| 22 | She was somewhere in the middle of the seething ball of workers , while all around it the massed ranks of soldiers faced threateningly outwards with jaws agape , every one prepared to kill and to die in defence of the queen . |
| 23 | I reached for The Mayor of Casterbridge which I knew was somewhere in the bed . |
| 24 | Mr Taylor said he had no forwarding address for the woman , but knew she was somewhere in the London area . |
| 25 | Johnny 's signet ring was somewhere in the hall ; there was no doubting it . |
| 26 | Wherever the Baroque music was coming from , and it was somewhere in the room , the equipment was well camouflaged ; Jackson could see no hint of electronic gadgetry to mar the overall appearance of timeless opulence . |
| 27 | And Amabel , who never could feel quite safe unless John-William was somewhere in the house or , at most , at the mill where a note might easily reach him , had been scandalized . |
| 28 | He had presumed the body was somewhere in the background . |
| 29 | She herself was somewhere in the region of the ceiling , looking down . |
| 30 | To judge by his observation so far , it was somewhere in the region of eighty-seven . |