Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 2 | Course one of the problems was you were checked in and checked out and if er you had n't come out there was a bit of a panic , Where is the person ? |
| 3 | Thus factories were placed in or near the port of Belfast . |
| 4 | A small crowd were gathered in and around the garden listening to it . |
| 5 | Yet others were situated in , or later moved to , places which eventually became towns with a full range of central place functions . |
| 6 | Thus the three parts of the research number allowed for subsequent analysis of all the referrals received ( a ) as a group , ( b ) according to whether they were received in or out-of-hours and ( c ) according to the nature of the referral received . |
| 7 | Do you know that you , your family , your wife , your grandfather , whoever , would n't be able to get this sort of treatment in the hospital they were treated in before . |
| 8 | All six horses were broken in , and we felt we knew how intelligent they were from their previous speed of learning new things . |
| 9 | The two stallions who could not even do the test had previously shown themselves to be intelligent by their rapid ability to learn when they were broken in . |
| 10 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 11 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 12 | Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 13 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 14 | Next , the shoes were painted in . |
| 15 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 16 | Jayhawk and Defiant were the first , both entered in the January trials and then retired as the newer America and Kanza were flown in from their builders in Rhode Island . |
| 17 | Thus Stirling took himself to Jalo where he was joined by his depleted force who were flown in . |
| 18 | Pleading danger to the many thousand Belgian nationals who remained in the Congo , paratroopers were flown in . |
| 19 | Because of the remote location , Stornoway Fire Brigade members were flown in by helicopter . |
| 20 | The other two stubs were filled in each with amounts of two pounds . |
| 21 | Wetland marshes were filled in systematically to make land more ‘ productive ’ or simply to discourage the hordes of mosquitoes that rule the eastern shore in the summer . |
| 22 | The gaps between the skeletons were filled in by sand and the even tinier remains of micro-organisms . |
| 23 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 24 | Cesspits were filled in and nightsoil collection ended . |
| 25 | One must look behind the legal forms to see how offices were filled in practice . |
| 26 | During this operation the housing joints were filled in flush with soft wood blocks to make an uninterrupted inside curve . |
| 27 | Many forms of objection — at least 400 were filled in . |
| 28 | The right hon. Gentleman has said that those forms were filled in arbitrarily and that they have no substance . |
| 29 | For a couple of years the low cliffs of unconsolidated coombe rock and brickearth were eroded at the rate of 3.5–6m ( 12–20 ft ) per year before they were boarded in and a new groyne system established . |
| 30 | Although many areas of British social life were attacked in Till Death , it was the general ridicule to which Christianity was subjected that caused Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA most difficulty . |