Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | but they were right out in the open breakfast and all the meals out here . |
| 2 | They show that those tests have nothing to do with the amount spent per pupil in individual authority areas — some of the biggest spenders were right down at the bottom . |
| 3 | Erm it may be that the people who were right down at the bottom like that were people who were doing other things as well and were say blacksmiths or whatever |
| 4 | ‘ They came to an uninhabited hut where they made a fire to dry their clothes , for all of them were wet through to the skin , and an old sail was spread upon the bare ground , which served as a bed for the Prince , who was very well pleased with it and slept soundly . ’ |
| 5 | The short days were half over by the time I ventured from the hut ( where my motorbike was also preserved . |
| 6 | The injustice of life stung her bitterly — Sylvester getting them Bones and co as if they were straight out of the champions ' parade at the Horse of the Year Show and not even knowing that some horses jumped and some did n't , and thinking that all weedy little Hoomey needed was motivation to become Seb Coe the second … |
| 7 | Rudling added a giant of a conversion so Gloucester were 12-9 down until the very last kick of the game which turned out to be a penalty . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 9 | Figures for January this year were 11 up on the same month last year , when 73 women contacted Edinburgh Women 's Aid . |
| 10 | I felt an unbelievable relief when we were all up to the tizi and the real exploration could begin . |
| 11 | They were all off in the woods somewhere . |
| 12 | At one time Lancashire 's reply seemed very likely to even less than that as Albert Ward , Sugg , Smith and Briggs were all back in the pavilion with only 21 on the board . |
| 13 | Ninety minutes later they were all back in the saddle and drawing their first covert as if the season had just begun . |
| 14 | By 10pm , they were all back in the House to hear that the government had won by three votes . |
| 15 | Now she was a mother of five and the three young ones were all down with the fever . |
| 16 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 17 | We saw no razorbills , which was a surprise , and the few little auks we saw were all out on the water , but the puffins made up for the loss . |
| 18 | As it was , on the fourth day England batted steadily but without much conviction , Steele and Close the top scorers , and were all out on the last morning for 254 , leaving West Indies to make 323 runs in a minimum of 294 minutes . |
| 19 | Hawthorn , horse chestnut and cow parsley ( which has one of the most wonderful scents in the world ) were all out at the same time . |
| 20 | The place would be in a rush and a turmoil until they were all out in the field and Joe was sure enough of the neighbours who had come to help . |
| 21 | It was hushed as a mid-week chapel inside H3 because Carol and her typing tribe were all out in the rain with banners bearing crudely daubed exhortations to the government to raise their pay . |
| 22 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 23 | They were all out in the courtyard , and the evening sun was slanting low golden shafts of colour from the west , catching the windows of the ancient palace and turning them to molten copper . |
| 24 | The village was decked with flags and flowers , with garlands of leaves between the trees and over the doors of all the cottages , and the villagers were all out in the street , the children playing in their best white frilled dresses and shirts . |
| 25 | We 've always believed that the market has to be regulated ; that 's what Disraeli and Peel were all about in the nineteenth century , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The revenues of both companies were well down on the same month in 1991 , showing a large proportion of their sales coming form the cheaper ranges . |
| 27 | Sales varied but were well down by the end of the 1980s , and the paper remained a rather marginal venture . |
| 28 | Is th another area that I did n't cover actually when when we were looking at the flats was erm , some people have s have around said that erm flats when they were first up in the first few years , erm were a contrast with the later years , in that erm they did n't have many of the problems , Many of the problems associated with the flats now , didn we were not in existence in the early days of the flats . |
| 29 | They were close up to the car when the brown-haired man of average build left his car and Ven Gajdusek halted to exchange a few words in Czech with him . |
| 30 | STANTONDALE were two up in the first quarter of an hour through Graham Dodd and man of the match Paul Diamond before Carl Thomasson reduced the lead shortly before half-time . |