Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People had been very cold and were sloshing about in the mud from the day before . |
| 2 | Nobly , you saved my life , and were struck down in the doing of it . |
| 3 | Other lesser interests and associations continued to exist but they were excluded from influence in crucial areas of public policy and were left out in the political cold . |
| 4 | She read it idiotically at least three times , until she 'd convinced herself there was no hidden psychological message in the bare statement of fact , and then realised that someone had just come in the front door of the flat and was moving around in the hall . |
| 5 | They just went in head first and was swallowed up in the road . |
| 6 | Behind the window , the putty face watched as a Moran , large and grey-speckled with red comb and wattles picked her way across the gravel carriage sweep , paused for a moment beside the bed of unpruned roses and was swallowed up in the shadows of the shrubbery . |
| 7 | The scale of fees has been simplified and was set out in the last Q.T. notes ( gold paper again ) £12 per annum for teachers living within 50 miles of their training venue £10 per annum for those outside a 50 mile radius |
| 8 | Midfielder Scott Sellars was sold to Blackburn for £35,000 and was bought back in the summer for £750,000 . |
| 9 | The moon , I thought briefly , had come down from the sky and was dancing about in the wood not far ahead . |
| 10 | James offered his services to the Chester Beatty in 1969 and was taken on in the Islamic section . |
| 11 | Steve Warwick scored the second goal and was brought down in the area , enabling Alton to get their third in a 3–1 home win . |
| 12 | It will be a generation or two no doubt before this determinedly old-fashioned room acknowledges one of the most remarkable of post-1945 French writers , the critic Roland Barthes , who was the complete Parisian intellectual but was brought up in the Basque country , went to school in Bayonne and all his life kept his house along the Adour , at tire . |
| 13 | One son , for example , was sometimes not allowed to sleep in the house , but was left out in the garden at night . |