Example sentences of "were [verb] in [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 2 | A flurry of bangs hit the door and before Allan Stewart could shoot back the bolt gun-butts had burst through the timbers , the bolt and its socket tore the jamb away , and soldiers in blue coats and white breeches were stepping in across the wreckage . |
| 3 | Black rain clouds were scudding in over the Thames . |
| 4 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 5 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A party from Wick High School were booked in for the weekend . |
| 8 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 9 | The next few issues of Amnesty will cover the changes that were voted in by the ICM in detail , however , a summary of the major changes is useful : |
| 10 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 11 | They were zeroing in on the wallflowers , splitting up couples and effortlessly getting them to mix . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Along London 's fast-flowing River Thames freighters and trampers were steaming in on every tide , and the jetties and berths echoed all day long with the sounds of wheeling cranes , dockers ' shouts and curses , and the chugging of busy tugs . |
| 14 | This worked very well , but in 1988 people were pushing in from the sides instead of joining the queues , and tempers were becoming frayed and the situation somewhat dangerous as people trampled over the numerous electricity cables and water pipes . |
| 15 | Then they were gliding in to a crown of diamond lights and it was time . |
| 16 | Entitled Swizzlewick , it ‘ starred ’ a Mrs Smallgood , a Councillor Salt — the chairman of the NVALA committee was a Birmingham councillor by the name of Pepper — and Ernest the postman , Ernest being the name of Mr Whitehouse and ‘ Postman 's Piece ’ the name of the house they were living in at the time . |
| 17 | Seven hundred reports of sightings were phoned in to the Starling Squad , to be pinpointed on a map of Leicestershire . |
| 18 | 10 sows and one boar were moved in during the autumn and they 've already had 50 piglets . |
| 19 | Having worked out the general layout , the main outlines of the plants and substrates and so on were drawn in with the washes of the appropriate colours . |
| 20 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 21 | A self-portrait and a portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze were bought in at a sale held at Drouot by Laurin-Guilloux-Buffetaud-Tailleur on 10 March after French museum authorities notified the auction firm the same day that the first work might not be allowed to leave the country . |
| 22 | In the January 1992 Christie 's American silver sale , the first to feel the rout , even great things were bought in without a bid . |
| 23 | Who were going in for the exam and I were n't allowed to help them . |
| 24 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 25 | During 1992 , 150 items of found property were handed in to the Police at Dounreay . |
| 26 | He had to hitch his chair forward to make room for a party who were moving in around the table behind him . |
| 27 | ‘ People were very friendly and we were invited in for a number of cups of tea during our stay , ’ PC Mardon said . |
| 28 | What I am getting at is that , in these historical cases , egalitarian ideas were tied in with the presumption that the proposition " all men are born equal " can be glossed " all men ( who are people like us ) are born equal " . |
| 29 | The receivers were called in at the Broadgate developer and the shares suspended at 7¼p , but the FT-SE 100 Index shook off the crisis and climbed to a new peak , up 18 points at 2778.8 . |
| 30 | TWO exorcists were called in to a drive a ghost from a hospital ward after frightened nurses refused to work there . |