Example sentences of "he was [vb pp] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans said they should get Jack Nicholson for the role and he was invited in for a try-out . |
| 2 | He expected to be there for only three or four days , but he was kept in for a fortnight . |
| 3 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 4 | ‘ He was put in with the bread and took out with the cakes . ’ |
| 5 | If the doctor 's estimate of the time of death is anywhere near right I doubt if he was put in before the turn of the tide . " |
| 6 | He was taken in for a moment , and believed her . |
| 7 | However , after two poor performances , he was drafted in against the tricky Minor Counties ( who later beat Sussex ) . |
| 8 | Scott 's first venture into this unlikely field of design was at Battersea where , in 1930 , he was wheeled in as a famous knighted architect by the London Power Company to try to make acceptable the coal-fired monster power station to which the residents of Chelsea and Westminster were taking strong exception . |
| 9 | And just yesterday he was spotted in in the Northampton area . |
| 10 | Although she had never read any of his books , she was well aware of the high regard he was held in in the literary world . |
| 11 | In 1572 he was brought in by the musician , Alfonso Ferrabosco [ q.v. ] , to design the tournament staged to greet the French embassy in June of that year . |