Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artist was one of the so called Bevin boys , who were drafted in to work as miners during the last war . |
| 2 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 3 | Childhood was followed by hard physical labour in local factories where workers were locked in to work or , if they arrived late , locked out . |
| 4 | And I was downstairs with Lottie ; and we were taking coats , do you see ; people were coming in to lunch or dinner — I forget — we were taking the coats , and a man went upstairs — I do n't know who he was — and he had a big head , and it was completely bald ! |
| 5 | English civil servants and other English appointees were brought in to fill policy-making and sensitive positions . |
| 6 | Consultants were brought in to coach team leaders , themselves working members of the unit , who then passed on their new-found knowledge — the cascade concept . |
| 7 | We crossed the fields below Underwood and made our way back home as cows were brought in to milk and children were brought in from play for their tea . |
| 8 | These groups were brought in to witness decisions . |
| 9 | In an attempt to make the RUC more acceptable to the minority , its leadership structure was radically altered , outsiders were brought in to train and lead it , and the B Special Constabulary was disbanded to be replaced by the Ulster Defence Regiment under army command . |
| 10 | Large numbers of soldiers and police were brought in to seal off the entire area . |
| 11 | Extra staff were brought in to dust and polish , while Paige helped Betty prepare the rooms for those who would be staying over . |
| 12 | My dad was called in to school to see the Headmaster about my little brother . |
| 13 | The march was then diverted down Albert Road and the police Special Operations Service was called in to x-ray the package found to be rubbish wrapped in a newspaper and cling film . |
| 14 | A police helicopter was called in to floodlight the area outside Kelvedon railway station where the 14-year-old girl was trapped . |
| 15 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | Dustin knew he was coming in to Broadway with Jimmy Shine and did not relish the idea of making a film and simultaneously appearing in a play , especially as the production was having problems on the road . |
| 17 | And since I was coming in to town she asked me to get some more . |
| 18 | Gulliver , the former Argyll Group chief who was brought in to raise revenue , made little impact during his 16 months with the club . |
| 19 | In January , Eddie Bradin , an official of the National Union of Public Employees in East Anglia , stood outside a picketed hospital warning that if the Army was brought in to help , ‘ services like blood transfusions will be blacked . ’ |
| 20 | that was brought in to help poor people |
| 21 | Whenever a new manager was brought in to take charge of them , they refused to co-operate : in the end we just had to take the porters on . ’ |
| 22 | Frederick Bartman , one of the stars of the legendary TV drama series Emergency — Ward 10 , was brought in to play Cassius for the two-week run , with audiences boosted by local schoolchildren studying Julius Caesar for their English Literature exam . |
| 23 | A sole practitioner , Mark Ledger , was brought in to head up the Salisbury office , which Ms Harris had set up prior to the merger ; the new firm set up an insolvency department under Geoffrey Morgan ; and 18 months later another sole practitioner , Philip Parmenter , was brought in to set up another office in Witney , Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | The German airline Lufthansa , as a long-standing sponsor of joint-projects with the Goethe Institute , was brought in to talk about sponsorship . |
| 25 | A sole practitioner , Mark Ledger , was brought in to head up the Salisbury office , which Ms Harris had set up prior to the merger ; the new firm set up an insolvency department under Geoffrey Morgan ; and 18 months later another sole practitioner , Philip Parmenter , was brought in to set up another office in Witney , Oxfordshire . |
| 26 | The party newspaper , L'Humanite , said the firm was giving in to property sharks who want to develop 200 acres around the site where the Renault brothers built their first cars in the family garage more than 90 years ago . |