Example sentences of "[pers pn] were [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This was when you were out in the wilds of Oxfordshire , right ? ’ |
| 2 | She hesitated , then said carefully , ‘ Well — Ling happened to see Doreen clinging to your arm last evening when you were out in the moonlight . ’ |
| 3 | No , you were out in the kitchen erm he went and I thought oh do n't you dare |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It was while you were down in the cellar , changing over the barrels , ’ she told him . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll say you were in a temper , and it had n't changed any when you were back in the office . |
| 7 | If you did n't look up too much , and avoided the fourth side with its terribly huge views across the countryside , you could almost believe you were back in the Store . |
| 8 | I was able to take controls of the aircraft when we were up in the sky . |
| 9 | And I was very naughty I , I felt like saying well some of their , they , them are n't er do you remember the very last time we were up in the hospital at the waiting area , there was those two nurses that walked up and down |
| 10 | She talked almost all the way down through the forest : and then , when we were out in the open she started again , ‘ Do you see those trees over there ? ’ |
| 11 | His voice was surly , but suddenly he twisted round to face me and took off the headphones , and I thought he was going to apologise for his rudeness of the previous night , but instead he demanded to know if it was true that we were out in the open ocean and were not planning to make a landfall for some days . |
| 12 | Soon we left the town behind us , and we were out in the country . |
| 13 | Next day we were off in the train to Bath . |
| 14 | We were back in the sultry heat of the valley . |
| 15 | At last we were back in the mountains . |
| 16 | We were back in the car with the heater on before you could say ‘ Who finished the soup ? ’ and another attempt was foiled . |
| 17 | It did n't last long because we were back in the boardroom by now , and he quickly got another glass of champagne into his clutches . |
| 18 | It was just like we were back in the cell , sitting down , having a chat and a roll-up . |
| 19 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |
| 20 | As we drove back to Chelmsford we all wished we were back in the sunshine of southern Germany . |
| 21 | On the evening of the second day we were back in the flat near Long Bridge . |
| 22 | Nationalization was dead as far as I was concerned , we were back in the rat race . |
| 23 | ‘ We were down in the cellar when a policeman ran and told us to get out . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | They were on in the funfairs on the prom |
| 28 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 29 | They were out in the street now and Aggie , for once in her life , stood helpless , knowing not what to do . |
| 30 | ‘ You have beautiful children , ’ he said when they were out in the cold . |