Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least people knew where they stood with him , and the darkened corridors of local government , with their forbidding and ever-present whiff of graft and back-scratching , were now lit up in a blaze of publicity . |
| 2 | The Marine Commandos were well dug in in a wooded area just off the road and close to the village . |
| 3 | Open fields without hedges or other divisions were awkwardly split up in a system known as ‘ run-rig ’ between joint small tenants living in a small village or ‘ fermetoun ’ , each annually allocated strips or ‘ rigs ’ of from a quarter to half an acre , with a rough- and ready attempt to balance the better and poorer land between the respective individuals . |
| 4 | Pronunciations of the target feature were covertly marked down in a notebook on the spot , using a simple preset schema . |
| 5 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |
| 6 | My subject of frost covered trees and hedgerows involved little colour and was mostly worked up in a sequence of colour tinted greys bearing reference numbers in the 800s . |
| 7 | Downstairs you could n't see her hair because it was all screwed up in a knot . |
| 8 | But the next thing we knew he was all kitted out in a blue and white sailor suit , smelling sweetly of baby lotion and with not a wet patch to be seen . |
| 9 | For — contrary to the legend that it was all thought through in a day — this theory was worked out in three main stages over the next half year . |
| 10 | It was all wrapped up in a knotted kerchief . |
| 11 | He was warmly wrapped up in a fur coat and had gloves on . |
| 12 | His raving was suddenly choked off in a fit of agonised coughing by the stinging , acrid fumes of the gasoline which cascaded down over his head and shoulders , as Curtis upended the almost empty can and poured the dregs down over him . |
| 13 | On June 8 after an explosion on board the Norwegian supertanker , Mega Borg , 3,000,000 gallons of light crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico 90 km south-east of Galveston , Texas , but was largely burnt off in a fire which was not extinguished until June 15 . |
| 14 | All of this was already mapped out in a very decent and proper piece of research that I had just written up . |
| 15 | The next time they came Allen was already hidden up in a beech-tree above where they stood and Marian was far off wandering among her swine looking for flowers . |
| 16 | ‘ After that I was just lying down in a hospital bed . ’ |
| 17 | He finished in great style but was just nosed out in a three-way photo , and is improving sufficiently to shrug off an extra four pounds from the handicapper . |
| 18 | Her long black hair , which was always tied back in a knot at the nape of her neck , would spring constantly outwards in a curly disarray whenever she was suddenly excited . |
| 19 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |
| 20 | [ The idea is that probability , which was originally spread out in a wavefunction ( or packet ) covering " here " , " there " and perhaps " everywhere " , is now all concentrated " here " . |
| 21 | Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long , shiny red boots . |
| 22 | Mary was indeed brought up in a country far wealthier and more powerful than that which she was to rule . |
| 23 | One school of thought has it that William received his regular thrashing for untidy work and was then locked up in a tiny room to rewrite it . |
| 24 | Besides , she was very wrapped up in a world of her own . |