Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 2 | Anyway , it was a good job we did because these erm these grouse and these chickens , I mean , they were so blended in with the the , the roadside you could hardly see them , and then they moved . |
| 3 | The vogue for this owed much to a bastard Darwinism ; Latin nations were less taken in by it than were Slavs and Teutons . |
| 4 | The main spar booms and other main structural members were sizable pieces of laminated wood , several inches square , and were generally boxed in on three sides by the plywood skin and shear webs . |
| 5 | They were not locked in with it , of course they were not . |
| 6 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 7 | You had nothing to hold on to , you were just squeezed in between daddy 's legs . |
| 8 | Attitude questionnaires were also filled in by both experimental and control groups . |
| 9 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 10 | The number of arrests went up to 46 when the partners of those arrested were also taken in by police . |
| 11 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 12 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 13 | Dust from such holes sprinkled down upon the drillers and considerable amounts were inevitably taken in by their vigorous inhalations as they laboured . |
| 14 | The Marine Commandos were well dug in in a wooded area just off the road and close to the village . |
| 15 | Threats were levelled that if cards were n't filled in by deadlines , good leads would be taken from dealers . |
| 16 | When the case was first heard last week , the judge , Harold Wilson wanted to know why police were n't called in in 1990 when Social services first knew of the abuse . |
| 17 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 18 | But the Thames Valley Police were n't brought in until June 1992 . |
| 19 | Furious staff claim they were even called in from holidays to be grilled by a specialist security firm at the MetroCentre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 20 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |
| 21 | Two of the Actuarial typists were then smuggled in to the delight of the all male audience and sang ‘ Three Little Girls ’ along with ‘ Nobby ’ Knox , who was distinguishable only by the fact that he was the one not wearing a mini-skirt . |
| 22 | Arguments of this sort which confused the " lower sorts of men " with the " higher sorts of ape " were not simply exercises in increasingly refined scientific discrimination ; they were closely meshed in with an ongoing dialectical debate , the original purpose of which had been to establish a synthesis between the theological doctrine of the Fall and the newly discovered facts of human geography . |
| 23 | They were either bought in by Don Bennett himself , and there were very few of those that got through my fine mesh , or those who were somehow or other forced on us by agencies over which we had no control . |
| 24 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 25 | On the other hand , new men were occasionally brought in from outside . |
| 26 | Chesarynth hoped all the secretaries were happily jacked in to some routine part of the system , or getting their jollies from the nerve-stimulators some of them were addicted to . |
| 27 | Joaquín Balaguer was duly sworn in as President on Aug. 16 [ see p. 37649 ] , despite the failure to elect presidents of the two legislative chambers and a boycott by many opposition members . |
| 28 | The First Deputy Prime Minister , Goh Chok Tong , was duly sworn in as Lee 's replacement . |
| 29 | Pawar was eventually sworn in as Defence Minister on June 26 after being replaced the previous day as Chief Minister of Maharashtra by Sudhakarrao Naik . |
| 30 | As a result of a general election held on April 25 , 1987 [ see p. 35138 ] , a new coalition government was eventually sworn in on July 8 , in which the Social Democratic Party ( Althyduflokkurinn — SDP ) joined the outgoing coalition partners , the Independence Party ( Sjáfstaedisflokkurinn — IP ) , and the Progressive Party ( Framsóknarflokkurinn — PP ) . |