Example sentences of "was [verb] in [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 2 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 3 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
| 4 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 5 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 6 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 7 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 8 | Darren Anderton slipped past Tom Cowan 's lethargic tackle and his low cross from the right was slotted in by the England player . |
| 9 | Visiting locomotives are a main feature of the railway and during the Annual Vintage Day Rally on Sunday , October 11 , a scale replica of 0-4-0T ‘ Cadbury Number II ’ in maroon livery was steaming in to the record books . |
| 10 | He in his turn was carried in by the men . |
| 11 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 12 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 13 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 14 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 15 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 16 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 17 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A soft light was flooding in through the tower windows . |
| 21 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 22 | It went into your jotter , your jotter was handed in on the Monday morning , or the first time you went to the eng the English class and the teacher was his name , he went over that and if you 'd missed out a comma , you see or a full stop or anything like that . |
| 23 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 24 | He said he was going in for the Spot the Talent competition at the Easter Fete . |
| 25 | Afraid she might doze off if she gave in to temptation and lay down on the bed , she sat down instead on the room 's only chair , and picked up a book , absorbing not a single word as she waited for the sounds that would mean he was turning in for the night . |
| 26 | Even Volkswagen was getting in on the act with its two concept Varios ( see separate story ) , which could bring four-wheel-drive recreational motoring to a much wider audience . |
| 27 | and Mrs was born in over the river . |
| 28 | At least one was lumped in with the guild stock . |
| 29 | The minister was speaking in before the defeat of the opposition-sponsored censure motion against the prime minister , PV Narasimha Rao . |
| 30 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |