Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 2 | It was wonderful to see how the great court filled , as though the word of her return in triumph had been blown in on the wind . |
| 3 | ( In fact , over fifty additional questionnaires had been sent in by the third week in November ) . |
| 4 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 5 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 6 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 7 | Beaumont bought Jodami cheaply in Ireland for Yorkshire businessman John Yeadon after the horse had been broken in at the Curragh as a four-year-old . |
| 8 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 9 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 10 | The 4,538 spectators at the game included about 1,000 visiting fans , and extra police officers had been drafted in for the game due to Cardiff 's large away following . |
| 11 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 12 | For him the civilization stage of European culture had been ushered in by the French Revolution . |
| 13 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 14 | Apparently , she had been taken in by the Madam who ran the house , a woman called Bella Cohen , who adopted her almost as her daughter , by personally , I always found it hard to believe myself . " |
| 15 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |
| 16 | She had been taken in by the man , accepting him as charming company when they first met , playing along with his flattering nonsense . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 18 | He moved rapidly down-river to Rouen where a number of merchant vessels had been driven in by the exceptional tide , and requisitioned twenty-eight boats . |
| 19 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 20 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 21 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 22 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the then Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 23 | The gift was by way of an invitation for the Prince and Princess both to become patrons of the appeal ; it was the idea of professional fund-raiser Marion Allford , who had been brought in as the appeal director . |
| 24 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 25 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 26 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 27 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 28 | ‘ But , if the body had been brought in from the Met area , we would not necessarily have been alerted . ’ |
| 29 | The work that had been put in in the past year was now showing results and he was absolutely confident that the spirit that had animated the society , the progressive feeling and the strong loyalty would continue throughout London . |
| 30 | During the last year before her furlough one hundred and seventeen new soldiers had been sworn in at the Howard corps . |