Example sentences of "was [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The television was on in the living room . |
| 2 | The radio was on in the living-room , he entered and saw her lying on the floor , When he knelt down and touched her face it was warm , and she moved a little . |
| 3 | No the li the lights was on in the tunnel . |
| 4 | And The Boys from Brazil was on in the evening . |
| 5 | But when tha , when the doctor was on in the morning , the doctor said it 's the same as the carotene in carrot |
| 6 | and Alan 's light was on in the hall , call it the hall and the car was there well a little while later he went . |
| 7 | Minutes later , she was down in the yard , unlocking the feed shed in the morning darkness . |
| 8 | Next morning Ruth was down in the kitchen early , eagerly hoping to find Sean there . |
| 9 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 10 | She was down in the dirt , rolling away from the sharp-toed kicks . |
| 11 | PENSIONER Ivy Groves was down in the mouth yesterday — because Government red tape will leave her without false teeth for weeks . |
| 12 | But there was not a sound : it was that time in the afternoon when Mrs Prynn was down in the village , Sir Gregory and Amyas were at their books , and the ladies in their chambers . |
| 13 | The hire car was down in the car park , the one near Miller 's End . |
| 14 | He was down in the Queen Victoria Hotel for two hours , plucking up courage on Double Diamond . " |
| 15 | Later in the morning he was down in the church preparing the corpse of Meg of Four Lanes for burial . |
| 16 | I was down in the workshops and I 've run a great splinter into my thumb . ’ |
| 17 | Susan : ‘ Well , Vera , I was down in the Bank this morning paying my ESB and you know what happened — an old gentleman came in with flowers for a member of the staff — it was lovely to see ’ . |
| 18 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 19 | Paul Hardyman ( full back ) : A few months ago Hardyman was down in the dumps Sunderland had shelled out £350,000 for another left back , Anton Rogan , and his days at Roker looked numbered . |
| 20 | Oh yes , oh yes much as they are now and the big horse we used to call them the big horses you know and er shows and that , all , they used to , Willenhall Wakes used to be fine really good , and er that was down in the Lane somewhere there . |
| 21 | Kevin Stabb from the USA was over in the jam , or was it an illusion ? |
| 22 | By 1962 the boom period of Canberra usage was over in the UK as the bomber squadrons disbanded or re-equipped with the trio of V-bombers . |
| 23 | so I decided I 'd have a go in a factory , aha , and I come in it was over in the other place , the noise was unbelievable , really unbelievable . |
| 24 | Wimpey made a loss in 1991 of £16.1m but has restructured by selling off businesses and said earlier this year that it believed the worst was over in the construction industry . |
| 25 | The main consideration in gaining a clear conscience is that we work out the wording carefully in advance as the prodigal son did when he was off in the far country . |
| 26 | The spaceport was off in the distance ahead of them , a giant depression in the midst of the great glacial plateau of ice — the City 's edge forming a great wall about the outer perimeter . |
| 27 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 28 | The kids were in the house and Daddy was up in the roof throwing bikes down . |
| 29 | ‘ And when I was up in the tree , ’ she added , gazing up at him , ‘ I saw a thief climb into the Botanical Gardens and dig up a lot of bulbs and put them in a big case and go off with them ! ’ |
| 30 | It seemed everyone was up in the mountains enjoying the glorious weather and the last few days skiing of the year . |