Example sentences of "was [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No the li the lights was on in the tunnel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 4 | And The Boys from Brazil was on in the evening . |
| 5 | The television was on in the living room . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Later in the morning he was down in the church preparing the corpse of Meg of Four Lanes for burial . |
| 8 | Minutes later , she was down in the yard , unlocking the feed shed in the morning darkness . |
| 9 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 10 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 11 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 12 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 13 | Next morning Ruth was down in the kitchen early , eagerly hoping to find Sean there . |
| 14 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 15 | PENSIONER Ivy Groves was down in the mouth yesterday — because Government red tape will leave her without false teeth for weeks . |
| 16 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 17 | She was down in the dirt , rolling away from the sharp-toed kicks . |
| 18 | Kevin Stabb from the USA was over in the jam , or was it an illusion ? |
| 19 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
| 20 | The spaceport was off in the distance ahead of them , a giant depression in the midst of the great glacial plateau of ice — the City 's edge forming a great wall about the outer perimeter . |
| 21 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 22 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 23 | Pete says that on one flight recently he was up in the air for nine hours so you have to take food and drink with you to keep going … in this country survival is not a problem but it can be hard when you 're flying across deserts and things like that |
| 24 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 25 | And he got his name and he was up in the quarry during the morning and he 's giving him his final warning that if he does that again he 'll book him . |
| 26 | The kids were in the house and Daddy was up in the roof throwing bikes down . |
| 27 | However , about ten o'clock the police car come up into the close and I was up in the workshop and I says to him I says , aye , I says , have you found Charlie ? |
| 28 | Cos it was up in the side , yeah . |
| 29 | It was up in the morning and back to school . |
| 30 | Another bomb fell and he was back in the gutter beside Peregrine , convinced that anything was preferable to being killed while waiting for an improbable train . |