Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 2 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 3 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 4 | So off we went out and we played our football , and I came back , and we were sneaking in through the back door and bumped right into him . |
| 5 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 6 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 7 | A party from Wick High School were booked in for the weekend . |
| 8 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 9 | The next few issues of Amnesty will cover the changes that were voted in by the ICM in detail , however , a summary of the major changes is useful : |
| 10 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 11 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 12 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 13 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 14 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 15 | They were wedged in with the patient herd of people who were shuffling slowly and quietly up the stairs to the foyer , but Mark talked in a clear , excited voice , as if oblivious of their presence . |
| 16 | Seven hundred reports of sightings were phoned in to the Starling Squad , to be pinpointed on a map of Leicestershire . |
| 17 | 10 sows and one boar were moved in during the autumn and they 've already had 50 piglets . |
| 18 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 19 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 20 | RECRUITS were bused in to the strike-hit Timex factory in Dundee yesterday , replacements for some of the 300 workers sacked during the dispute . |
| 21 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 22 | During 1992 , 150 items of found property were handed in to the Police at Dounreay . |
| 23 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
| 24 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 25 | Those worth £5 — £19 were roped in for the second loan , in 1523 , so paying a total of 15 per cent , not so very much less than what was expected of the £20 men , and of course a proportionately heavier burden . |
| 26 | The receivers were called in at the Broadgate developer and the shares suspended at 7¼p , but the FT-SE 100 Index shook off the crisis and climbed to a new peak , up 18 points at 2778.8 . |
| 27 | Police were called in to the border guard 's home in the town of Lod as hundreds of Jews gathered demanding vengeance against Arabs . |
| 28 | Police were called in after the fourteen month old grey colt was found dead on a farm on road in Lincoln . |
| 29 | Reinforcements were called in from the Surrey , Kent , and Sussex forces . |
| 30 | On 16th December 1991 , the building societies and bank bosses were called in by the Government for an emergency briefing and were told to come back in two days with solutions . |