Example sentences of "and he [was/were] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 2 | So many refugees had panicked and he was lost in the throng . |
| 3 | The sea soon carried him away , and he was lost in the darkness . |
| 4 | A large hole had appeared in the Plexiglass right in front of Ed , and he was struck in the chest . |
| 5 | The play had done quite well and he was noticed in the small part . |
| 6 | Bullets ripped through the car and he was hit in the chest and leg . |
| 7 | Dyer was eventually censured by a committee of inquiry , but substantial sums were raised for him by public subscription and he was adulated in the press , the House of Commons , and — especially — the House of Lords . |
| 8 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 9 | When they came in to work they park their cars and he was playing in the car park . |
| 10 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 11 | He 'd sent a photograph in and he was sitting in the garden and right and he was on a garden chair and he had his nice hair washed and shiny . |
| 12 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 13 | And then they were gone and he was lying in the snow of a mountainside , alone and cold . |
| 14 | His elder son died in 1874 and he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his second son , George William ( born 1844 ) . |
| 15 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 16 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 17 | She turned , hearing the stillness that followed the rustling of his movements , and he was standing in the doorway , looking at her with a strange , soft look of mingled reluctance and resolution . |
| 18 | His hands and fingernails were filthy , his face and legs were covered in muck , his clothes were sodden and he was glorying in the wetness of it all . |
| 19 | Ruggiero 's legs and collar-bone were broken and he was trapped in the wreckage for almost seven hours , pinned beside her corpse . |
| 20 | He went to back to work in the factory in the big cabinet making factory , and there was a fire and he went up to help some of the girls and he was trapped in the lift . |
| 21 | When he was barely one year old , Nicholson 's mother died and he was put in the care of his aunt Mary , on her farm at South Carlton , near Lincoln . |