Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
2 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
3 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
4 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
5 | Our housework was hard and long and laborious and erm we 'd got two children to look after and then I 'd got my brother who did n't leave home until he was thirty and er , you had n't got the time , you know , to do too many things , so er my interest was the young wives ' and it was really a as regards the erm the Guild itself , I was thrown in at the deep end when this lady who was with my mother , mother was treasurer , she was secretary , erm she used to come down for me and , I know you should n't canvass but she used to canvass and say erm you know the voting , you know , will you , will you come and vote ? |
6 | Well I was thrown in at the deep end Different persons came in maybe if we had a job in a hurry and they would say , Oh you 're on at such and such a time at this . |
7 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
8 | After three years as a cadet carrying out basic police tasks around the station , I was sworn in as a constable . |
9 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
10 | I mean er you know , I I was went in as a mechanical fitter and er stayed as such , getting sort of bigger and more responsibl bilities as I went Grew up . |
11 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
12 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
13 | Silver , lead , copper , iron and mercury were the most important metals which were brought in from the mines some of which were owned by Ragusan merchants — in Bosnia , Serbia and Kosovo . |
14 | She used to make things that are now quite commonplace but which at the time seemed really exotic — fabulous cakes like kugelhopf and filled croissants which were wheeled in on a trolley for tea . |
15 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
16 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
17 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
18 | My problem is with blanketweed which was brought in on a lily plant . |
19 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
20 | Within this transition , there seem to have been two distinct phases of development , the second of which was ushered in with the final abandonment of all residual concerns with cultural and linguistic policy , and thus indirectly with English in schools . |
21 | The question in the second stage , which was ushered in by the work of Baur , was raised by the manifest differences in style and content between the synoptic gospels and the gospel of John . |
22 | After the ceremony of the Wheel there was a firework display and people bought chips and hot-dogs from traders with vans who were cashing in on the occasion . |
23 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
24 | Bob Bennett , Grenadier Guards , was one of those frustrated warriors who were called in to a large marquee . |
25 | Who were brought in at a very level . |
26 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
27 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
28 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
29 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
30 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |