Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] in to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bishops were again brought in to arbitrate ; but they did not see eye to eye . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And she was so hooked in to him that she sensed that changing of mood almost immediately , and the façade split open a little wider . |
| 6 | I knew she had psychic gifts , but I could not work out how she was so clued in to this film . |
| 7 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 8 | Thinking of the provocatively slow way she might later take off her shiny red boots , dark hair falling down over her placidly unconcerned face as she bent to remove them , thinking of the longer , slower flow of her otherwise quick young body as she discarded her clothing bit by bit and turned with a sudden smile of submission towards his already rumpled bed , he was also holding in to himself and caressing within himself the glass-cased ideal of a woman — a Princess — who could be worshipped without being touched by bonily clutching fingers , who could transform him without being stickied by any of his bodily fluids . |
| 9 | The jacquard , a grotesque affront to good taste , something of an Umbro speciality and first sported by Manchester United , was supposedly brought in to help counteract counterfeiting . |
| 10 | But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing . |