Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] in the [noun] " 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 | As they were rarely in the office together , he found his orders constantly changing . |
| 6 | The lights were on in the Incident Room . |
| 7 | Street lamps were on in the distance , greenish or blobs of orange light . |
| 8 | When I parked the car at Woodside , I noticed the lights were on in the apartment next to mine . |
| 9 | They were on in the funfairs on the prom |
| 10 | Lights were on in the shops and houses as Rain and Oliver approached the Bar de la Marine . |
| 11 | The lights were on in the office from which he commanded the Carabinieri Company covering the section of the city that lay south of the river Arno and a large tract of country going south through the Chianti hills to the borders of the Province of Siena . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Animals were much in the news . |
| 14 | Spies were all around ; they were literally in the wiring and the woodwork . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The stay in hospital were less in the epinephrine plus pure alcohol group ( mean 4.3 v 7.1 , p<0.05 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They were together in the kitchen deciding what to have . |
| 20 | I did elicit the information that Fishbane was five years ahead of him and that briefly they were together in the school choir . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | At the end of the collation the objects of this relentless pedagogical experiment were suddenly in the drawing room . |
| 23 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 24 | They were down in the order book at four and eight pence . |
| 25 | We were down in the bar , up the club on Saturday night your Aunt Jean and Raymond and I and this fella beside us was drunk and he put his arm round this woman 's neck , you know the thing , what about ? |
| 26 | The erm , yes Camco 's profits were down in the U S , but Penguin North America was substantially up , erm and Addison Wesley of course was up in erm dollar terms . |
| 27 | No doubt they were down in the cellar sheltering from the bombardment . |
| 28 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 29 | ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him . |
| 30 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |