Example sentences of "[was/were] broken into " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a separate incident , gaming machines were broken into and their contents , estimated at £650 , stolen in a burglary at Saltburn Golf Club . |
| 2 | Four cars were broken into at the town 's golf club and radio-cassette players , Ryder and Slazenger clubs and other property worth £2,000 was stolen . |
| 3 | The systematic way cars were broken into make police believe the thefts were carried out by thieves combing the streets looking for likely targets . |
| 4 | Cars belonging to visitors at a Teesdale beauty spot were broken into at the weekend . |
| 5 | Ten cars were broken into during one night in Ferryhill and Spennymoor at the weekend . |
| 6 | Eight vehicles in Aycliffe , Shildon and Sedgefield were broken into on Sunday . |
| 7 | Cars in Arran Walk and Gleneagles Road were broken into over the weekend . |
| 8 | He said that Madge 's house was broken into last night . |
| 9 | A shed was broken into some time between Thursday night and Friday morning and electrical tools worth £100 were stolen . |
| 10 | Rather like his brand new sponsored Mercedes , in fact ; but one of a strange series of incidents reported in the press , and not always on the cricket pages , was the fact that Beefy 's car was broken into and the radio stolen the night before he scored a century . |
| 11 | Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock told police he wanted to lead as normal a life as possible but was forced to have more security when his home in Ealing , West London was broken into and bricks were thrown through a window . |
| 12 | Another XR3 was broken into at Bramswood Road , Great Baddow , and a radio/cassette player was taken . |
| 13 | A workshop in Broad Road , Braintree , was broken into and power tools worth £2,000 were taken . |
| 14 | Ten days later my office was broken into . ] |
| 15 | Laughing and laughin' or [ ga:d ] and [ go:d ] can more convincingly be shown to be used to say referentially the same thing than any pair of postulated synonymous syntactic constructions such as the liquor store was broken into versus they broke into the liquor store . |
| 16 | Firstly to be desecrated by hooligans and then in Feb. 1976 it was broken into and brass ornaments were stolen including the crucifix and sanctus bell . |
| 17 | The night of his arrival the Palace was broken into , and among the items stolen was nearly the whole of his plate . |
| 18 | ‘ When the room was broken into , all of you here were present ? |
| 19 | Similarly , it the Insured considered the risk to the camera but decided that it would be safer in a locked car than taking it to where he was going he could demonstrate that precautions were taken even if they subsequently proved inadequate and the car was broken into and the camera stolen . |
| 20 | In one week recently a fumigation trailer and two pest control vans were stolen , a Healthcare side-loader was broken into , there was an alleged poisoning of a dog by a Rentokil product , and a threat to contaminate cans of food with a Rentokil rodenticide . |
| 21 | A pensioner 's home at Knockdara Park was broken into between 12 noon and 5pm . |
| 22 | A bus parked overnight at Templemore School was broken into last Thursday and two fire extinguishers were taken . |
| 23 | On Feb. 15-16 , 1990 the synagogue in Oradea was broken into and desecrated and during May Jewish graves were vandalized in Bucharest , Galati and Tirgu Mures , prompting the Chief Rabbi , Mozes Rosen , to warn of the dangers of an outbreak of personal violence against Jews . |
| 24 | A chicken farmer in Norfolk had the front of his house sprayed with liquid manure and a pharmaceutical laboratory was broken into in South Wales and about fifty white mice released . ’ |
| 25 | The Romanian factory which produces replicas of the Lotto strip was broken into last week — with nearly 500 Blues shirts stolen . |
| 26 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 27 | Centre break-in : Coundon Health Centre was broken into on Tuesday night . |
| 28 | A house in Calvert Terrace , Murton , was broken into on Wednesday night . |
| 29 | The Scania truck was broken into in Great Ayton . |
| 30 | His house was broken into , his fiancee was attacked while walking home and had her handbag snatched , and then his car window was smashed . |