Example sentences of "was [verb] in [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep enough , at any rate , for a boat to get in to the boat-house which was tucked in under the cliff at the southern end of the bay , below the path where I stood . |
| 2 | However , due to the short notice , Randalstown would have been without four key players on May 15 which was pencilled in as the reserve date . |
| 3 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 4 | She slept unexpectedly soundly , and when she next opened her eyes , daylight was filtering in through the rather grimy window . |
| 5 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
| 6 | And some of these were found in Bristol harbour er and the pattern of the cloths was pressed in to the lead so we were able to put a microscope to that and see how it should be woven . |
| 7 | As we emptied our dustbins out we noticed another bin full of cold ravioli and bread left over from lunch ; the bread was mixed in with the garbage and was soggy from being in a dustbin of cold ravioli for two hours . |
| 8 | ( At their first overhaul , this batch were given full internal bulkheads and an extra seat was squeezed in on the top deck . ) |
| 9 | She always had on a brown cotton smock which was pinched in around the waist with a wide leather belt . |
| 10 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 11 | The cops worked shifts , but I was booked in for the run . |
| 12 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 13 | Darren Anderton slipped past Tom Cowan 's lethargic tackle and his low cross from the right was slotted in by the England player . |
| 14 | Visiting locomotives are a main feature of the railway and during the Annual Vintage Day Rally on Sunday , October 11 , a scale replica of 0-4-0T ‘ Cadbury Number II ’ in maroon livery was steaming in to the record books . |
| 15 | He in his turn was carried in by the men . |
| 16 | Some said his wife did n't turn a hair any more when Sammy was carried in like a drowned rat . |
| 17 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 18 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 19 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 20 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 21 | She had moved across the courtyard , flagstone by flagstone , to cheat the shadow ; now she was boxed in to the last corner of light . |
| 22 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 23 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 24 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 25 | A puppet government was moved in behind the Russian tanks . |
| 26 | After that , it too was turned in for a Qualcast with loppy handles and collapsible wheels . |
| 27 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 28 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 29 | I suppose the , the example of that is where a house wall was pushed in by the , the mass that was thronging outside the Brunwick gates . |
| 30 | But light was spilling in through the seams of the door at the far end of the room ; crimson , glowing light from whatever lay on the other side . |