Example sentences of "were [adv prt] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The lights were on in a second and the usherette was at the screamer 's side .
2 The lights were on in the Incident Room .
3 Street lamps were on in the distance , greenish or blobs of orange light .
4 When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine .
5 They were on in the funfairs on the prom
6 Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine .
7 The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena .
8 And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale .
9 They were down in the order book at four and eight pence .
10 We were down in the bar , up the club on Saturday night your Aunt Jean and Raymond and I and this fella beside us was drunk and he put his arm round this woman 's neck , you know the thing , what about ?
11 The erm , yes Camco 's profits were down in the U S , but Penguin North America was substantially up , erm and Addison Wesley of course was up in erm dollar terms .
12 No doubt they were down in the cellar sheltering from the bombardment .
13 He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him .
14 ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him .
15 ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out .
16 The blinds were down in the study to protect new furnishings from the sun , and the light was subfusc and aqueous .
17 At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’
18 Ah well they were down in the garden we said
19 The case was not contested , so the court proceedings were over in a day .
20 In other words , the lights were off in the living-room except for the strobes around the disco where a lonely DJ was pumping out Frankie Goes to Hollywood , and all the guests at the party were in the kitchen cluttering up the fake oak worksurfaces and obscuring the Neff oven .
21 The lights were off in the living-room , but the television was on and I was amused to see a little bluish-grey man talking seriously to the empty armchairs .
22 Next day we were off in the train to Bath .
23 I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky .
24 And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down
25 All the balloons were up in the Channel when we finally got there , and we dodged all around them trying to find the closest field in England .
26 It was all over after 41 laps when Hill 's engine blew … his hopes and those of all the home fans were up in the smoke
27 The theatre was not large , and the bulk of the audience were out in a couple of minutes , umbrellas raised , heads dropped , darting off into the Village to look for their cars , or a place where they could put some drink in their systems , and play critics .
28 ‘ The kids were out in the lake on one of those pedal boats .
29 Soon we left the town behind us , and we were out in the country .
30 ‘ This was when you were out in the wilds of Oxfordshire , right ? ’
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