Example sentences of "were in and " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were the Lucas boys with their model railway , there were a couple of evacuees with their mothers , there was a German Jewess refugee with her adopted child , there was a friend who lived with them and helped at a school and her children were in and out a lot . |
| 2 | He described the coterie around John as ‘ a kind of Chelsea-Bloomsbury Group ’ and said that they were in and out of each other 's flats all the time . |
| 3 | With the briefing room so near to our office , the flying boys were in and out quite frequently , as I have mentioned . |
| 4 | It is estimated that in the years 1896–1913 German landholdings declined by over 98,000 hectares , 20,000 of which were in and around Danzig . |
| 5 | They cared little for themselves ; they were in and out of hospital for drug addiction and overdoses and abortions . |
| 6 | Other committee members were in and out of the new Law Centre , holding meetings , planning strategy , contacting people with wide experience of the sort of situation they found themselves in , and collating information . |
| 7 | By Friday afternoon the results of the gas sample analysis were in and Reno Air Race Executive Director Thorton Audrain proclaimed the fuel ‘ clean ’ and promised to monitor the fuel . |
| 8 | It was rather extensive at first and consequence of being and a necessity of taking in clothes of all the paupers who , with , which on a , on a waste of after a week or two the number of the workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers and the board were in , were in and then in which the boys got back , were , were a large was a cop was a copper at one end , after which the master dressed in an apron and assisted by one or two women and they ladled the gruel at meal times . |
| 9 | The visit to the Brewery Company presented no problems , and they were in and out of the office within half an hour ; when they went into the chop-house on the stroke of twelve , they were the first customers . |
| 10 | Yeah er you know , we had an understanding that if erm because there were times when we wanted to just have some time together , or to pray together , and erm you know people who did come in and out to the flats , we erm told them that if th we were in and we did n't answer the door , it was actually because we were either doing something that we could n't come . |
| 11 | ‘ You were in and out of this office all the time , you must have some idea of what my brother kept in his safe . ’ |
| 12 | This , with other and routine business , took him half a morning , during which Inspector Lane was out of the office on other business and the two young sergeants were in and out all the time ; they seemed to work as a unit . |
| 13 | We both knew only too well because of the business we were in and the sort of people we were what could happen . ’ |
| 14 | They were in and out of the side during the mid-70's but did n't Harvey AND Stewart get Full International caps for Scotland ( though not many ) ? ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , sections er , Longmans were in and they had them . |
| 16 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 17 | Principally there were at that time other interested parties in the premises er and also erm Mr saw it as essential er that er they were in and running the business er well before the time of the Christmas trade which was rapidly approaching then , then it being late August and er he wanted to make sure that they were in in in time for them to be able to take advantage of those bookings that they anticipated . |
| 18 | They were in and out , quite sort of professional . |
| 19 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 20 | All the same , it was an unusual situation they were in and they wanted an answer , said Phil Jordan to John Coffin on the telephone . |
| 21 | bottle on longer you see , while they were in and they were alright , and it |
| 22 | but mind you we had much worse a problem that day because we had two sets of sniffer dogs who did n't like something and the first lot that were in and did n't like something that we 'd |