Example sentences of "was [verb] in [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 4 | There was little public knowledge of the extent to which intelligence tests had already become part of the machinery of secondary selection by 1940 , nor how far their use was tied in with that of standardised tests of attainment in English and arithmetic , which were provided , marked and correlated by the same person or organisation . |
| 5 | But within minutes , confirmation was coming in on all sides : from our headquarters in London , from the teleprinter flashes , from national newspaper reporters stunned like us and now eager to hear what we thought about it . |
| 6 | Kitingan , who described the election results as " heartening " , was sworn in for another term as Chief Minister on July 18 . |
| 7 | At that time he owned supply wagons contracted to the army and he was at Fort Thomas when this boy who was called Ish-kay-nay was brought in with some prisoners . |
| 8 | She wondered how much longer it would be before Jack was brought in in this sort of state , and how she would feel if he was . |
| 9 | He died very soon afterwards , and this young daughter was taken in by some poor people . |
| 10 | Councillor Community Environmental Services Committee are responsible for the large number of partnerships , social partnerships , with big business that the Labour Group are bringing to and the reason the Percent for Art was on that Committee was to link in to that er those those partnerships ' proposals . |
| 11 | When she emerged from the tunnel , she was hemmed in on either side by wooden fences . |