Example sentences of "were [adv] in the " in BNC.

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1 Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them .
2 Mattan and the yellow jersey were right in the middle of the pack as it peddled hard in the blistering heat .
3 And in the evening I looked for them , and then I saw them of course , I knew where they were and I thought quite longly we were right in the front .
4 And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did .
5 And we were right in the front row and that ruddy music she had !
6 As they were rarely in the office together , he found his orders constantly changing .
7 Their homes were mostly in the traditional working-class districts of the city , whether the tenements of the Old Town and South Side , or the lower-built streets north of the New Town between Edinburgh and the port of Leith .
8 Think what sort of murders were most in the public eye at the period you want to write about , because there are fashions in murder .
9 Animals were much in the news .
10 Spies were all around ; they were literally in the wiring and the woodwork .
11 When the storm broke they were literally in the front line , but they continued to stock The Satanic Verses and in many cases display it prominently .
12 They did n't do many subjects together and were only in the same group for French and history .
13 You were only in the other room .
14 Now what they , what they were supposed to do erm I never did know but there were quite a number of these er men who lived in this train and they had a lieutenant who 's quite a handsome chap by all accounts , he used to come into the office a chap named lieutenant and erm erm this was one of the things that landed on Joyce 's plant er plate and er she used to meet these Education Officers and arrange for courses and in the er in Lieutenant 's case of course there was er , instruction in English which erm erm Stanley who was a Headmaster of er Area School he undertook classes for these Polish chaps but er so often of course these erm , these units were only in the area for a limited space of time so you could n't arrange anything very , very comprehensive
15 And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind .
16 If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him .
17 On the other hand , if Scottish political life in the counties is assumed to be explained by the suggestion that bribery was all in all , this would be a misleading impression , for many freeholders were less in the pocket of a political manager than the managers themselves would have liked to think , or conventional accounts would suggest .
18 The stay in hospital were less in the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( mean 4.3 v 7.1 , p<0.05 ) .
19 The concentration and total amount of caecal and colonic SCFAs were less in the low fibre diet rats ( Table II , p= 0.001 ) .
20 She and Grubb were together in the team that won the Nations Cup in Washington , before she went on to take the Toronto World Cup round .
21 They were together in the big cupboard behind the staff room , refilling the sugar bowls .
22 On Sunday evening nearly all the apostles were together in the upper room where Jesus appeared to them .
23 They were together in the kitchen deciding what to have .
24 I did elicit the information that Fishbane was five years ahead of him and that briefly they were together in the school choir . ’
25 At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room .
26 He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others .
27 Making an extraordinary number of handling errors and under-using the speed in their backs , Widnes were scarcely in the hunt .
28 So people who were generally in the big box knew about it ?
29 Yet international trade and the major enterprises were generally in the hands either of the Tsar or of foreigners , and the privileges granted Western entrepreneurs were not withdrawn until late in the century .
30 Population prevalences , where given , ranged from 13 to 74 per 100000 but were generally in the region of 50 per 100000 .
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