Example sentences of "was under [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest was under wraps . |
| 2 | She was under police custody waiting to continue her testimony against the man alleged to be Washington 's most powerful drug lord , Rayful Edmond III . |
| 3 | By the time I got to the Party Conference in October , I was under police guard . |
| 4 | A MAN was under police guard in hospital today after being shot during a burglary . |
| 5 | Like other teachers at Dovercourt , Howard Franks was under orders to curb the romantic inclinations of their wards . |
| 6 | Putting our village team together for the Wednesday evening match , he discovered that the Unemployed Electrician would n't be back from one of his interminable job interviews and that the Butcher 's Assistant — surprisingly , a delicate offspinner — was under orders to go courting . |
| 7 | As Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace was under orders to produce rapid legislation , and in May 1933 the Agricultural Adjustment Act was passed . |
| 8 | But she felt she was under orders ( there was some comfort in that ) to spend the evening in the wilderness . |
| 9 | It was then she remembered how he had once called her ‘ chicken ’ — the time he wanted to go somewhere else when she was under orders to go to the Moon . |