Example sentences of "[conj] was [verb] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not have this appearance , however , and it may simply be a copy that updates but generally reproduces one that was written in about the 1270s by or for Richard of Haldingham . |
| 2 | The old man 's chair was placed in a dormer window that was glassed in on three sides . |
| 3 | The headmaster looked as if he was fighting off a large insect that was homing in on his neck . |
| 4 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 5 | The faces around him were the last to go , standing out with startling clarity against the sleepy darkness that was closing in on him . |
| 6 | In the nursing home , Cameron III wrote an album 's worth of his very best material , railing against the darkness that was crowding in on him . |
| 7 | The three space directions and imaginary time would form a space-time that was closed in on itself , without boundaries or edges . |
| 8 | From another statement in Taskopruzade 's article on Fahreddin Acemi it appears that he also studied under , and was licensed in by , Burhaneddin Haydar Herevi . |
| 9 | The Eighth Army had suffered a crushing defeat and was digging in along the Alamein line , only sixty miles to the west of the Nile . |
| 10 | He rang the bell , and was asked in by the maid — only to be told that the family were at dinner . |
| 11 | Mr Baines needed stitches and was kept in for observation after needles from the artificial conifer , wielded by wife Lorraine , became embedded in his scalp . |
| 12 | A pair of granite chairs by Scott Burton ( lot 55 , est. $100–150,000 ) sold for $80,000 ( £44,400 ) , in spite of concerns about their condition Lichtenstein 's ‘ Laughing cat ’ ( lot 44a , est. $350–450,000 ) failed to attract any interest and was bought in at $190,000 . |
| 13 | He came by taxi ( parking his car was always difficult in either place ) , arrived later than he intended , and was let in by Alison who had been crying . |
| 14 | She made her way up to the hotel bedroom and was let in by one of the porters . |
| 15 | Gagong Apang was re-elected leader of the Congress ( I ) legislative party on March 5 and was sworn in for his fourth term as Chief Minister on March 7 . |
| 16 | Habré arranged elections and was sworn in for a further seven-year presidential term on Dec. 22 , 1989 , but was overthrown on Dec , 1 , 1990 , by rebel forces from the east under the leadership of his one-time military commander Idriss Déby , leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 17 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 18 | In the second-round run-off presidential election held on May 8 , 1988 , Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the centre-left Democratic Left ( Izquierda Democrática — ID ) polled 46 per cent of the vote and was sworn in at the head of a new government on Aug. 10 [ see p. 36343 ] . |
| 19 | The principal members were a private secretary , Oliver Everett , who worked for the diplomatic service and was recalled from Madrid to set up her office ; and Anne Beckwith-Smith , a specialist in eighteenth-century English painting , who worked at Sotheby 's and was brought in as full-time lady-in-waiting . |
| 20 | The community charge was introduced first in Scotland , and was brought in in England and Wales in 1990 . |
| 21 | It is thought that the style originated somewhere in the far East , and was introduced in to France by sailors . |
| 22 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 23 | Lucian Freud 's compelling ‘ Night Interior ’ ( lot 44 , est. $500–600,000 ) , which was owned by Saatchi , attracted a couple of hesitant bids from Anthony d'Offay , who had exhibited the picture at his gallery in 1972 , but was bought in at $260,000 . |