Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [was/were] trapped in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , it was the poorer sections of the working class who were trapped in poverty with little prospect of escape . |
| 2 | They are a mix of ordinary working-class people and affluent business families who were trapped in their town flats when the fighting started and now know they have lost their country homes for ever . |
| 3 | For example , Friedan ( 1983 ) believed that it was the ‘ feminine mystique ’ which prevented women from leading successful public lives ; the education system was partly to blame for the ideology of the feminine mystique , but equally the solution for women who were trapped in their roles as wives and mothers was to return to college to obtain an education . |
| 4 | Most of the dead and injured were motorists and their passengers who were trapped in traffic jams near the scene of the accident . |
| 5 | Three men have gone on trial for the killing of twin sisters who were trapped in a blazing barn . |
| 6 | Cleveland firemen were called to British Steel 's blast furnace site at Redcar to release four men who were trapped in a lift which had broken down . |
| 7 | A 16-year-old boy who was trapped in the back of the van also died . |
| 8 | Firemen were called to release British Steel worker Mohabat Ali Din , 35 , of Tollesby Road , Middlesbrough , who was trapped in his Ford Sierra car which collided with a tractor unit at the new bridge between Lackenby and Cleveland works . |