Example sentences of "[was/were] show into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were shown into a room which ran the whole depth of the cottage , bright and chintzy , the indoor equivalent of a herbaceous border . |
| 2 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 3 | There they were shown into a room , leaving the press-hounds baying outside . |
| 4 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 5 | I was shown into a bare room where paper spilled from the desks then taken back round the main hall . |
| 6 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 7 | Shortly before 4pm , he was shown into a room at Ludgrove School to tell 10-year-old William and Harry , eight , their mother and father would no longer be living together . |
| 8 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 9 | She was shown into a library of gracious proportions , ushered towards a chair . |
| 10 | In the event I was shown into a small room with Her Majesty , where we sat together for some twenty minutes chatting amiably about almost anything under the sun . |
| 11 | The next time I went to Miss Havisham 's , I was shown into a different room to wait . |
| 12 | She was shown into a large office with a hard-backed chair facing the interview desk . |
| 13 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |