Example sentences of "were [adv prt] in [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a pleasant afternoon and my thoughts were on In Salah one hundred and eighty miles away . |
| 2 | M : it is — it is quite good they 've certainly kept within the + em + + preserved it reasonably well or conserved it but we were up in Aberdeen this year for a holiday and we were staying right within the University complex there in Old Aberdeen+ and + oh some of the buildings there are beautiful really they really are nice + but er I was quite impressed with it — it 's the first holiday we 've had up there + |
| 3 | In Britain , cinema attendances have doubled in the past decade , and they were up in America last year . |
| 4 | THE RUC were out in force last night to prevent an illegal rave going ahead . |
| 5 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |
| 6 | Less than an hour later they were back in number twenty-six , and she was so tired that she was past worrying about having to sleep in the same room but , confronted by the reality of the limited space , two small beds and a very large , powerful man , her nervous fears came back like a river in full spate . |