Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The few gypsies remaining on the site this afternoon , who 've asked not to be identified , claim they were picked on in a motiveless attack . |
| 2 | These producers were carried out in a darkened room . |
| 3 | Writing in the late 1960s and early 1970s , he argued that advanced capitalist societies were caught up in a major contradiction . |
| 4 | Elderly people were caught up in a political , financial and staffing web in which services were run according to the needs of service providers , Harbert told the conference . |
| 5 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 6 | Huddersfield , Second Division professionals , were seen off in a pre-season friendly , and in the National League a succession of self-respecting clubs have been trounced . |
| 7 | Bull O'Malley 's heavy eyebrows were drawn down in a confused frown . |
| 8 | His passengers were filing out in a dazed little procession . |
| 9 | By scrawling with his crook in the dust , the shepherd redirected us and by nightfall we were holed up in a cosy bar . |
| 10 | Detailed regulations for the construction of new buildings were laid down in a great variety of Acts and bye-laws . |
| 11 | The words were laid out in a strange manner . |
| 12 | The bodies of many of the 167 who died — 37 of them Britons — were laid out in a makeshift mortuary at an army barracks near Katmandu . |
| 13 | His religious opinions were set out in A Short History of the Evangelical Movement ( 1915 ) , and his personal interpretation of Whig philosophy in Politics and Personalities ( 1917 ) . |
| 14 | The aims of the national curriculum and its related assessment procedures were set out in a consultative paper published in July 1987 in which it was anticipated that standards of educational provision and attainment would be raised by : |
| 15 | Several members of the left wing Revolutionary Movement , MIR , were hiding out in a residential safe-house . |
| 16 | Its strong stubborn wings were swept back in a magnificent curve . |
| 17 | He looked as if he was lit from below , and his nose and cheeks were spread out in a white , lifeless slab against the window pane . |