Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew that the police station was tucked away in a square behind the main street , next to a school . |
| 2 | Oh yet , it was tucked away in a cupboard , and was immobile and almost unplayable ! |
| 3 | He was tucked away in a corner , the only man on his own , a solitary candle illuminating his face as he pored over the paper on which he was writing . |
| 4 | His advisers hit on the idea of announcing that he was going on a cruise up the Hudson river where , away from prying eyes , he was propped up in a chair against the mast and anaesthetised . |
| 5 | ‘ The boyfriend was walking around in a daze . |
| 6 | The string was walking round in a circle at the end of the gallops when Bill 's Audi drew up . |
| 7 | He was thrashing about in a circle , trying to escape and kept shouting , ‘ Help me ! |
| 8 | Barely noticing the brief , sharp moment of pain as her flesh yielded to his , she was caught up in a maelstrom of whirling sensations , the hard , pulsating rhythm drawing her down into an emotional whirlpool , before her body was suddenly racked by shuddering convulsions of a pleasure so incredibly intense that it was almost too much to bear . |
| 9 | She was tall , a little on the stout side , and had long brown hair with one or two streaks of grey in it which was caught up in a bun perched on the top of her head . |
| 10 | And that 's why I 'm saying that , leading up to the Donovan Report and because I was caught up in a situation along with my colleagues , that we were changing a system er and you know , a new incentive scheme , that we were increasing production . |
| 11 | From the very first moment of her return to the vicarage Ruth was caught up in a whirlwind of work . |
| 12 | South West appointed the finance director only to have him vetoed by the Government on the grounds that he was caught up in a Department of Trade and Industry investigation . |
| 13 | She felt Terry 's hand running over her body , kneading her breasts and shoulders , and was caught up in a feeling of presentiment . |
| 14 | This study was carried out in a range of locations and tenures , and tested people 's awareness of energy saving products , conservation measures , and novel types of energy technology using ambient energy ( eg solar collectors ) , all rated against their costs of installation , running and maintenance . |
| 15 | Until a few weeks ago skin patients had to go for their treatment to the old dermatology hospital in this old TB ward , while research was carried out in a couple of temporary buildings . |
| 16 | The by-election following the death of Mr Richard Holt , the longstanding Conservative MP , was carried out in a glare of national publicity . |
| 17 | The paint shop staff at Blundell Street Depot in 1908 , where car-painting was carried out in a corner of the depot surrounded by sheeting , until transferred to Marton in September 1911 . |
| 18 | Gurder was lurking suspiciously in a patch of shadow by the door when they came past , arms and legs going like pistons . |
| 19 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 20 | The old office boy , Alistair soon saw , was curled up in a sleeping-bag under a work table in the outer room . |
| 21 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 22 | Mo was curled up in a bundle under the eiderdown . |
| 23 | He found her where she clung to a rope that was curled up in a corner of the iron ship and picked her up and carried her through a secret tunnel down through the floor of the ship , down through the underwater creatures , deep into the earth beneath the swirling sea . |
| 24 | No girl , reported David Riesman , the sociologist , would go to a dance unless she was picked up in a car belonging to or driven by her escort , which was likely to be ‘ the second car ’ . |
| 25 | She was wearing a jade green velour ‘ leisure suit ’ and her blonde hair was twisted up in a knot on top of her head . |
| 26 | The levels of IgA anti-myeloperoxidase did not differ from the control group in any of the disease states , whereas IgA anti-lactoferrin was significantly ( p<0.01 ) more common in Crohn 's disease , although it was seen only in a minority of the patient sera ( 6 of 51= 12% ) . |
| 27 | Having earned a rest , he was turned out in a paddock where he had grazed regularly . |
| 28 | Much of the distribution of population was built up in a period when British industry enjoyed competitive supremacy in international trade . |
| 29 | The apparatus was operated remotely in a vacuum and in a temperature-controlled chamber . |
| 30 | After dropping out of RADA he joined the RAF in the war , was shot down in a bombing mission over Denmark and spent three years in a Polish PoW camp . |