Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two boys were remanded in to the care of the local authority by Leeds youth court last night . |
| 2 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 3 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 4 | Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 5 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 6 | Fine creases where the colour had flaked off the shoes were painted in with a rich reunite of permanent rose and white , whilst permanent rose was used alone for some minor details like the punchmarks on the orange strap loops and the stitching around the edges of the straps themselves . |
| 7 | Because of the remote location , Stornoway Fire Brigade members were flown in by helicopter . |
| 8 | Jayhawk and Defiant were the first , both entered in the January trials and then retired as the newer America and Kanza were flown in from their builders in Rhode Island . |
| 9 | The centre of each side was then painted with light green oxide and the remaining corner squares were filled in with a mixture of ultramarine violet and titanium white . |
| 10 | The gaps between the skeletons were filled in by sand and the even tinier remains of micro-organisms . |
| 11 | Although many areas of British social life were attacked in Till Death , it was the general ridicule to which Christianity was subjected that caused Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA most difficulty . |
| 12 | The 63 was one of a handful of four-wheel-drive cars that saw brief service in 1969 before they were parked in at the end of the blind alley into which their manufacturers had ventured . |
| 13 | The wounded who were carried in from the attack on the Rebecca lay in the shade under the trees while their hurts were being dressed . |
| 14 | ‘ A hundred years ago they were carried in after coming off their horses , or being knocked clown by carriages . |
| 15 | A party from Wick High School were booked in for the weekend . |
| 16 | Now you 've found out what animals were voted in as favourites ( and if you have n't turn to p849 for enlightenment ) , how about analysing your own attitudes towards the natural world rather more deeply ? |
| 17 | The controls were voted in at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources ( CCMLR ) . |
| 18 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 19 | The next few issues of Amnesty will cover the changes that were voted in by the ICM in detail , however , a summary of the major changes is useful : |
| 20 | The sheep had the worst time , and not many survived 1947 , although provisions for people and animals alike were dropped in by helicopter , and the Army forced a way through on the south side of the dale . |
| 21 | As Major Pond discovered , seat-holders were let in through side doors while hoi polloi had to come in through the front in the hope of getting what they could . |
| 22 | However if you were let in to the secret that x stands for the number 10 then you can work out this problem in the following way unc |
| 23 | Police officers searched L's house in his absence and were let in by his girlfriend . |
| 24 | Rakovsky 's hands were clenched in to fists . |
| 25 | Richardson is not uncritical of his subject or the paintings , particularly the blue period works , and certainly points up the variable quality of the paintings of the earliest years , where fully-fledged masterpieces were mixed in with hastily produced or rather gauchly sentimental pieces . |
| 26 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |
| 27 | The poles were pushed in along canvas tunnels at the sides . |
| 28 | To accommodate a passenger , a second seat was installed in an open cockpit ( later glazed ) forward of the pilot ( as was done on NASM 's XP–59A ) and the VIPs or observers were strapped in for their first ride . |
| 29 | They were wedged in with the patient herd of people who were shuffling slowly and quietly up the stairs to the foyer , but Mark talked in a clear , excited voice , as if oblivious of their presence . |
| 30 | Seven hundred reports of sightings were phoned in to the Starling Squad , to be pinpointed on a map of Leicestershire . |