Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |
| 5 | J. D. Hooker collected plants on expeditions to the southern polar regions and to the Himalayas , and soon plants ( in Wardian cases ) were flooding in from all parts of the world . |
| 6 | And erm could you describe the house you were born in at all ? |
| 7 | No other home could be found for these cars at short notice , so Cohen 's men were called in with oxy-acetylene torches to break them up on the spot . |
| 8 | But reinforcements were called in from nearby Moorland prison — and the escape was foiled . |
| 9 | I 'll make the point again Martin that just as on Saturday when goals were flying in at both ends and eventually it finished three two , I kept saying do n't believe the scoring is all over in this game , that 's my feeling now . |
| 10 | A number of that 25-35 age range were brought in as one of two groups who had an opportunity to look at the various stages while the possible designs were still being examined . |
| 11 | In a classic Desmond manoeuvre , the big names were brought in as Ordinary shareholders for a total of £1m . |
| 12 | The surgeon also described how two young women were brought in with soft tissue injuries to their lower limbs , and a little girl he had seen had sustained injuries to her abdomen . |
| 13 | Fire crews were brought in with special chemical protection suits to deal with a spillage of nine hundred litres of sodium hypochlorite at the Kidlington and Gosford Sports and Leisure Centre . |
| 14 | Occasionally other teachers who wanted to take " a cautious look " were brought in for specific purposes . |
| 15 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 16 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 17 | Specialist police squads were brought in from outside constabularies , and their containment tactics included the deployment of ‘ snatch squads ’ and the indiscriminate batoning of pickets ( Scraton , 1985b:158 ) . |
| 18 | Powerful fans were brought in from other mines and taken down into Bank mine to disperse the gases . |
| 19 | Many of these civilians were brought in from other mining areas in Romania . |
| 20 | Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable . |
| 21 | Pieces from continental Europe were brought in by other POETS group companies , and P&O Containers transported works from Japan and the USA . |
| 22 | Today saw the first of four weekly auctions , and five tons of holly and mistletoe were brought in by local farmers . |
| 23 | Lt.-Col. Moabi Mothibeli and Tsiliso Lehohla were sworn in as Military Council members . |
| 24 | Our third gear figures in 1965 included 30–50 , 40–60 and 50–70 each in 3.4secs ; even in top the same increments were despatched in between 4.1 and 4.3secs ; 80–100mph and 90–110mph occupied 4.5 secs and 6.8secs in third , or 5.4 and 6.1 in top , underlining the Cobra 's staggering flexibility . |
| 25 | It is important to establish whether the fossil animal actually lived in the environment which furnished its sedimentary cover , or whether its remains were swept in from some other place . |
| 26 | But it is doubtful whether many Greeks were taken in by such propaganda . |
| 27 | It was widely believed that inexperienced magistrates were taken in by false evidence and relied too heavily on interpreters and clerks . |
| 28 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 29 | Traffic 's increased in Milton since humps were put in at nearby Sutton Courtenay . |
| 30 | If greater efforts were put in at this level at an early stage , through early warning on emerging conflicts , many major wars could be prevented . |