Example sentences of "was [verb] in by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 2 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 3 | The international civil rights group was called in by a province-wide body of Protestant community leaders , the Ulster Community Action Network ( UCAN ) . |
| 4 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 5 | Medical practice booklets four years ago or it 's five years now I guess , five years ago erm er it 's almost five , legislation was brought in by the then Health Secretary Ken Clarke now our dear Chancellor . |
| 6 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 7 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 8 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 9 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 10 | Jane accompanied her hostess , who had taken her ten-year-old bronchial , backward ( ‘ France is the capital of Paris ’ ) overactive child to one , and while waiting was confided in by a fashionable , staring-eyed woman . |