Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 2 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 3 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 4 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 5 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
| 6 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
| 7 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 8 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 9 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 10 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 13 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 16 | The last ten minutes of the journey were so exciting , I just could n't wait to plonk my feet in a nice bowl of water , then we reached the village we were to stay in for the next three weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They were dug in at the other end of the village in an orchard very close to the enemy positions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From what I could gather they were showing in in the area where the new ticket office is , as opposed to a bit screen on the pitch facing the east stand as they propose for the scum game ( And they 're getting a beer license for this too ! ! ! ! ! ) . |
| 22 | Third did he ? the first which was the Sunday and he had to get it ready because they were coming in on the Tuesday , on the third . |
| 23 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |
| 24 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 25 | Otherwise the tt building will have deemed to not comply to B one of the building regulations which I do n't want to go into too much detail but basically what it is that with effect from nineteen ninety one the smoke alarm smoke detector bill came into er operation and it was brought in into the nineteen ninety two building regulations when they were amended from the nineteen eighty five regulations that states now any new build homes shall have and be fitted with a mains operated , with battery backup , smoke detection system . |
| 26 | The drawing was identified as a Rembrandt by Christie 's Old Master drawings expert , Hugo Chapman , when it was brought in by the owner for valuation . |
| 27 | It was held in with the present public excluded but now we seem to have a completely different situation . |
| 28 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 29 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 30 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |