Example sentences of "people were [vb pp] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On any day there was a great advantage in arriving at the Board of Trade early , for people were called up in the order in which they handed in their cards . |
| 2 | Elderly people were caught up in a political , financial and staffing web in which services were run according to the needs of service providers , Harbert told the conference . |
| 3 | Young people were caught up in a whirlwind of activity with , to quote a social worker , ‘ the teachers and the physios and the medics arguing out who has this square inch of this kid 's time ’ . |
| 4 | A cynic among us suggested the people were brought out in the early morning for the tourists to snap their unlikely habitat . |
| 5 | However , 10,000 people were laid off in the process , including many of the 650 who worked at Unisys 's factory in Livingstone , Scotland . |