Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Chambers Street in 1810 , for example , Mr. Isaac was nicely settled in alongside the very English-sounding Chas . |
| 2 | I persuaded a friend of mine to visit the summit one evening and he was so taken in by the view that he stepped back from the trig point and disappeared over the edge of the crag that crowns the top . |
| 3 | She was only joining in for the sake of the others because Murder in the Dark is more fun with five than with four . |
| 4 | There I was welcomed by Molly Braithwaite who demonstrated Medau movement and I was soon joining in with the others present . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Jackson himself , a gangly six foot four , with a hairline not so much receding as speeding flat out towards his neck , was easily slotted in with the other unlikely pop stars , taking their surly revenge on the conventional way of doing things . |
| 6 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 7 | Robert Wharton F was formally sworn in as the new President of the CIOB at the Institute 's Annual General Meeting on June 30 at its headquarters building in Englemere , Ascot . |
| 8 | News of the Romans and the pending invasion was probably brought in by the merchants . |
| 9 | The Council of Ministers ( members of which had been proposed in December 1989 — see p. 37116 ) was also sworn in by the new Chief Justice , Hans Berker . |
| 10 | Both the car and the trailer were badly damaged , but because the glider was securely held in by the fittings , it survived the trailer going over on to its side without damage . |
| 11 | I began to feel I was really homing in on the answer : involuntary spasms had sent those lifeless appendages hopping about the turret like bingo balls on a current of air … until their trajectories just happened to coincide with not-wall , not-floor , not-ceiling ( which I quickly worked out was better than a one in three shot every hop ) . |
| 12 | The wolf had cornered his prey and was now moving in for the kill . |
| 13 | Grégoire was now hemmed in by the tiny precarious wine table . |
| 14 | Abercrombie 's broad-brush strategy was now filled in with the complementary prescriptions for design at the local scale , both central areas and residential districts . |
| 15 | She was immediately thrown in at the deep end when one of her young clients , Lucy Gates , died . |
| 16 | He was then reeled in by the Frenchman , a three-times champion who now has a record 48 victories to his name while Hill has raced in only nine Grands Prix . |
| 17 | Cases were being loaded and mine was unceremoniously tossed in with the rest . |