Example sentences of "was [verb] in [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He in his turn was carried in by the men . |
| 2 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |
| 3 | He was peering in on the proceedings from the kitchen , while his best friend , Mafouz , had retreated to the stairs and was looking down , intently , on Mr Malik 's elegantly coiffeured hair . |
| 4 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 5 | Led by a small boy in shorts and singlet and over-large wellingtons , a herd of cows was coming in from the fields . |
| 6 | The whindust was brought in by the dumpers . |
| 7 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 8 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 9 | Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary , had been a champion of colonial causes before he took office : now he was falling in with the policies of powerful officials like Sir Andrew Cohen . |
| 10 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |
| 11 | The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up . |
| 12 | Limp orange light was leaking in around the edges of a grey blind . |
| 13 | When Caroline awakened , the sun was streaming in through the windows . |
| 14 | The sun was streaming in at the windows of her room . |