Example sentences of "was [verb] in by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 2 | She made her way up to the hotel bedroom and was let in by one of the porters . |
| 3 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 4 | The tea was brought in by two of Louise 's house-maids . |
| 5 | The money was brought in by direct weekly collection , but sales of various kinds and by that once universally popular but now almost vanished institution , the Guest Tea . |
| 6 | He died very soon afterwards , and this young daughter was taken in by some poor people . |
| 7 | But this stress was only one of several strands in the ideological construction of the bourgeois family , for sexual choice was hemmed in by simultaneous emphases on property , the survival ( and even accentuation ) of a differentiated standard of morality , and the growth of the ideology of ‘ respectability ’ , with all its class connotations . |
| 8 | That post bellum decade was ushered in by financial scandals , bank panics and a restructuring of the financial system . |
| 9 | An order for payment out will be needed whenever the money in court is accepted if it was paid in by one of two or more defendants . |