Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 4 | If the doctor 's estimate of the time of death is anywhere near right I doubt if he was put in before the turn of the tide . " |
| 5 | He was closing in for the kill . |
| 6 | However , after two poor performances , he was drafted in against the tricky Minor Counties ( who later beat Sussex ) . |
| 7 | And just yesterday he was spotted in in the Northampton area . |
| 8 | Although she had never read any of his books , she was well aware of the high regard he was held in in the literary world . |
| 9 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 10 | But Marc 's business in the stable must have only taken a minute because he was coming in through the great oak doors even before she reached the foot of the stairs . |
| 11 | He was peering in on the proceedings from the kitchen , while his best friend , Mafouz , had retreated to the stairs and was looking down , intently , on Mr Malik 's elegantly coiffeured hair . |
| 12 | In 1572 he was brought in by the musician , Alfonso Ferrabosco [ q.v. ] , to design the tournament staged to greet the French embassy in June of that year . |
| 13 | Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary , had been a champion of colonial causes before he took office : now he was falling in with the policies of powerful officials like Sir Andrew Cohen . |
| 14 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |