Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [adv prt] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1672 , for example , the Dutch Cromwell , de Witt , was torn limb from limb in the street by a frenzied mob , and in 1986 I was beaten up in a bar . |
| 2 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 3 | ‘ I was locked up in a room with a ghost , in the dark . ’ |
| 4 | I was brought up in a generation where there were only two kinds of girls — girls who did and girls who did n't . |
| 5 | I was brought up in a hard school , Mrs Willow , and I do n't forget it . |
| 6 | I think with erm , I I was brought up in a household where it was com , completely legitimate to admit to being depressed and that you would just have to cope , I think cope perhaps my most |
| 7 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 8 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in a vicarage myself and know how things are or can be , ’ he said confusedly . |
| 10 | No heroes or heroines from TV ever entered my world , for I was brought up in a society that banned television . |
| 11 | I was brought up in a different era where you had to entertain yourself . |
| 12 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 13 | I was caught up in a closed , warm world of physical pleasure . |
| 14 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 15 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 16 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 17 | Eventually , she was caught up in a vicious cycle of bingeing and dieting — when she was depressed she ate , when she was bored she ate ; a box of cakes and half a dozen Mars bars in one session was nothing unusual . |
| 18 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 19 | She was set down in a quiet side-street near the Madeleine . |
| 20 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 21 | Well there was you would er buy your errands and they was marked down in a book at the shop . |
| 22 | It was dug up in a ploughed field in South Worcestershire … the precise location is being kept secret . |
| 23 | It was tied up in a parcel . |
| 24 | The original tree survived until 1911 , when it was blown down in a storm . |
| 25 | It would seem that great pains were taken to ensure that the potential division among Incomer/Shetlander lives would not be spoken about , and that if it was spoken about in a public forum , the arrival of incomers would be made to look less ominous . |
| 26 | Cos it instead of it was n't wrapped up you see , it was wrapped up in a cloth . |
| 27 | Well I , I mean if it was wrapped up in a box |
| 28 | Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly . |
| 29 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 30 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |