Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Determined but polite efforts were made to interest her in the purchase of tomatoes , plums , oranges , artichokes , mussels , scallops , chickens and even a swordfish steak . |
| 2 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 3 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |
| 4 | They were going to put us in the workhouse . |
| 5 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 6 | The girls were allowed to visit him in the clinic . |
| 7 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 8 | I 'd see both these birds in the zoo , so I was fascinated to see them in the wild . |
| 9 | ‘ Soliciting … she was known to have men at her house and was seen to stop them in the street . |
| 10 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 11 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 12 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 13 | I mean look at myself , my father was a doctor , his father was a schoolteacher , so the way one used to look at things , that immediately when I was born put me in the middle class erm bracket . |
| 14 | And this goblin came along one day and says to this peedie fairy that like he was coming to get her in the morning . |
| 15 | He grabbed Rohmer by the arm and swung him around so that he was forced to look him in the face . |
| 16 | No one else was allowed to overrule her in the boardroom . |
| 17 | I was allowed to see her in the visiting room , but if some of the girls knew you were from C1 they 'd call you muppet . |
| 18 | Anon she was not placed in the royal vault ; rather the opportunity was taken to put her in the Villiers vault in 1776 when the neighbouring Percy vault was opened for the reception of the remains of the First Duchess of Northumberland . |
| 19 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 20 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 21 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |