Example sentences of "were [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that during the Blitz , families , stout-hearted folk , were down in these caverns holding hands beneath blankets and whistling the stirring refrains of Dame Vera Lynn . |
| 2 | We showed the Germans our passports and Feed the Children/Red Cross documentation and were through in ten minutes . |
| 3 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 4 | It was as if I were back in Roman times . |
| 5 | Three patients who had been receiving specialist care were back in ordinary wards last night after the unit closed . |
| 6 | The whole thing , the whole spectrum that went with it , y'know , as you know yourself , if you were around in those days and going to concerts and one thing and another . |