Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 2 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 3 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 4 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 5 | And he was moving in my direction , although I did n't know he was coming in for a photograph . |
| 6 | He was coming in of a about a fortnight ago , we were just pulling away and he said to Teresa are you still doing ? |
| 7 | Actually , before he moved away , he , he gave up his designing job and he was working in for a bit . |