Example sentences of "was [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The one positive sign I 've seen recently is that public sector spending was up in the third quarter of 1993 . ’ |
| 4 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 5 | That was back in the early sixties . |
| 6 | She was back in the other chair watching me , a curiously intent look on her face . |
| 7 | By the 8th June , I was back in the front line . |
| 8 | He stressed that GRE was back in the black due to significant improvement in its non-life insurance business , particularly in the UK . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
| 11 | Carole Swan was back in the Grand Hotel around midnight . |
| 12 | She was back in the abandoned warehouse . |
| 13 | She was back in the proper life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Just an hour later he was back in the same court to give evidence against three men accused of trying to murder him . |
| 16 | But it surpised him to learn just how revolutionary it was back in the 1940's . |
| 17 | Bill Sartor was back in the top turret again for their third visit to Berlin on March 22 . |
| 18 | But she was frank and inaccessible as a Modigliani nude ; and I was back in the green glow of the glade — except that this time I too was observed . |
| 19 | A forty-year madness , he had called it , one which had laid waste the best years of her young life ; yet he was back in the thick of his obsession now , and so elated by his own recent progress that he lacked the time to ask about her own . |
| 20 | Continuing on past the huge oak door I had observed from the outside was another passage leading to a cloakroom , as the euphemism goes , otherwise a loo and wash basin and turning right I was back in the main area . |
| 21 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 22 | Sadly the whole evening tends to confirm just how single-handed Callas ' achievement was back in the Fifties . |
| 23 | happier when it was back in the old feet and inches . |
| 24 | He strode past the lines of guards and attendants , nodded to the pair of officers who lounged at their ease in the shadow of the enormous length of midnight-blue fabric which hung suspended from the ceiling in lieu of a screen , and slackened his pace only when he was out in the long gallery which ran supported around the entire upper floor . |
| 25 | Then a whoosh , and she was out in the painful , bright light . |
| 26 | Not until I was out in the open countryside again , reassured by the songs of the birds and the murmur of streams did I feel that I had emerged from a dream and rejoined the familiar twentieth century . |
| 27 | It was out in the open now , her thoughts of that last hour as she had kept her lonely vigil . |
| 28 | Everything was out in the open — political resistance , management failings and just sheer inertia . |
| 29 | It was out in the open now and she was able to look him in the face again , all pretence finished . |
| 30 | What they felt was out in the open and they both knew it could go no further until whatever lay ahead was over . |