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

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1 Lights were on in the primary school .
2 Take them I mean along the main road , he had taken the the the trees at the back of them and they had no shelter and they were down in the main road .
3 She did not speak again until she and Tug were down in the big kitchen .
4 The lights were off in the big drawing-room but someone had lit the logs which had been piled in the fireplace .
5 We used to stand it in the window to cool down so that we could get a cool drink — it was April and temperatures were up in the nineties and there was no water on the train .
6 By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold .
7 Once they were out in the fresh air , away from this green tomb , their blood would cool .
8 His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days .
9 If things were out in the open — and St Mirren did offer to meet any condition if I would stay — then I could make an honest decision about my future .
10 They were back in a narrow country road and there were powerful lights behind them .
11 ‘ You have a lot of Asians and Caribbeans working in the foundry , but not so many in the other part , ’ Robyn observed , when they were back in the peaceful calm and comparative luxury of Wilcox 's office .
12 He , Kelley and the other Rex were back in the top-secret room .
13 Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
14 Officially statistics suggest there are no more cars in the city than there were back in the seventies .
15 They were back in the Chinese room Sara once more tried to guess whether anything was missing .
16 We were back in the sultry heat of the valley .
17 The few managers of nursing who were around in the late 1960s , early 1970s will not wish to relive those experiences and yet unless alternative solutions are found quickly , the problem which prevailed then will soon be upon us again .
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