Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] were [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you were travelling in the opposite direction ? ’ |
| 2 | So you were looking in the first place ! |
| 3 | Suddenly we were stopped in our tracks by the sight of a mighty torrent , swelled by heavy rain , thundering down the mountainside and into the foaming river below . |
| 4 | Well , no , we are governed by our Annual General Meeting , but it 's not unrealistic to ask for double figures , because basically we were talking in that vein last year , and of course we eventually settled for 8.8 . |
| 5 | So we were stood in the doorway . |
| 6 | Apparently they were used in restaurants , skating-rinks , and similar venues . |
| 7 | My hand shook , spilling my hot milk all down my flannelette frills , and before long they were lying in a heap at my feet . |
| 8 | Perhaps they were justified in recalling early days in makeshift cinemas and perhaps they had to mingle with the masses as they went in search of Chaplin movies , but they must have been aware that prestigious down-town and suburban theatres were now largely being patronized , not exclusively by a lumpenproletariat , but rather by a mix of social classes and perhaps above all by young people who were moving up the social scale into more respectable occupations . |
| 9 | Survival of these roots may have been enhanced by greater lignification and/or suberization of cortical or epidermal cells , or perhaps they were located in resource-rich microsites . |
| 10 | They were carried on four pairs , of which the two middle ones were fixed , whereas to move sideways in a radial direction when going round a curve , though normally they were held in a straight line with the fixed wheels by a pair of springs in compression . |
| 11 | Their colonies , looking like so many miniature hacksaw blades , often completely covered bedding planes , and usually they were found in the absence of other kinds of fossils . |
| 12 | They had this little room , half the size of a prison cell , and if you did anything wrong you were put in there with just a mattress , and you was left there locked in , to stew really . |
| 13 | Later we were joined in an organising committee by a number of other people who , although acting in a personal capacity , had through their paid employment or voluntary work direct experience of the issues which were to form the core of the conference . |
| 14 | An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map . |
| 15 | Simultaneously they turned to face one another and a moment later they were locked in an embrace . |
| 16 | Twenty minutes later they were sitting in a little restaurant drinking retsina . |
| 17 | Later they were used in elaborate salads , John Evelyn listing no fewer than three dozen suitable in his book Acetaria in 1699 . |
| 18 | Minutes later they were installed in the bar of the White Lion , where the dish of the day , to Leonora 's astonishment , proved to be roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with vegetables from mine host 's own garden . |
| 19 | Seconds later they were engulfed in a seething torrent of water that appeared as though by magic . |
| 20 | It was , on one level , a very public romance — for not only did Barenboim and du Pre make fantastic music together , but also they were married in Jerusalem amid the elation surrounding Israel 's victory in the Six-Day War . |
| 21 | Now they were gathered in the chapel for her final journey home . |
| 22 | Two is n't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order , and now they were living in hotels . |
| 23 | By now they were living in a small town , Modyokerto . |
| 24 | They 'd swum and picnicked , and now they were lying in the shade of a drunkenly angled coconut palm , and all around them the sun glistened relentlessly on sapphire water and brilliant green vegetation . |
| 25 | On this score , the results apparently gave Hambros some comfort , although Mr Irwin adds that ‘ it probably made us feel less complacent , especially on the treasury side , about how well we were doing in terms of our costs ’ . |
| 26 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 27 | Well he were born in Hong Kong were n't he ? |
| 28 | And then you were considered in a fit state to go and eat your dinner . ’ |
| 29 | By then we were living in a dirt-cheap place on the Bowery . |
| 30 | And in this varied picture there were even some share-croppers still to be found , though everywhere they were dwindling in importance . |