Example sentences of "[been] [verb] in [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 2 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 3 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 4 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 5 | Wycliffe had been booked in at the one hotel which remained open through the year . |
| 6 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 7 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 8 | Then you can tell me some more about that book you 've been buried in for the past week . " |
| 9 | The plaudits have been pouring in over the past weeks , as the following reports show . |
| 10 | By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty . |
| 11 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 12 | I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Within 24 hours Jagmohan had been sworn in as the new state Governor , a post he himself had vacated in favour of Rao in July 1989 . |
| 15 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 16 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 17 | Today will be the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
| 18 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
| 19 | There 's an image of fire on the screens and they 're piled up like a bonfire with er natural things that have been brought in from the outside , and there 's slide tape projections of the forest around the gallery . |
| 20 | And in recent weeks it 's become a daily chore , as more and more birds have been brought in from the nearby Gloucester Sharpness canal . |
| 21 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been tuned in to the local station , ’ he said shortly . |
| 23 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 24 | She had been thrown in at the deep end and it was a question of sink or swim . |
| 25 | Now in terms of the cr the need for development , I 'm sure the panel will have read all the evidence which has been put in about the long history of the varying impact studies o on development on around Greater York , and those date back of course to the February eighty nine report which I I think you 'll have seen copies of . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 29 | ( In fact , over fifty additional questionnaires had been sent in by the third week in November ) . |
| 30 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |