Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grannell was placed in a police car but kicked out the rear window causing £150 damage . |
| 2 | The newly born boy was wrapped in a ladies jump suit . |
| 3 | The latest was found in a clothes shop yesterday morning . |
| 4 | Later more obscene material was seized in a police raid on his home . |
| 5 | Protesting her innocence , she was taken in a police van from Heathrow to a police station , near the flat where Gemma was found alone after Ms Gibson left for the Costa del Sol with a male friend . |
| 6 | In the meantime , the sheep took off on cue and I could hear they had reached the Lion by the din coming from the main bar , I was put in a police van and off to the " cop-shop " ; when I took off my smock and the stupid hat there really was a frightened wing commander underneath . |
| 7 | One of them was dressed in a Bugs Bunny rabbit costume and was handing out leaflets . |
| 8 | I was kept in a chemicals factory for a few weeks , but could maintain my running on a makeshift path around the camp . |
| 9 | He was sent in a cattle truck through the Brenner Pass to Austria where food was so short that he exchanged a piano accordion ( the Fawcetts , it seems , were always able to find the means to make music ) for two loaves of bread baked from chestnuts . |
| 10 | Patients and Health Unions are demanding better security at Britain 's hospitals after an eleven year old girl was raped in a children 's ward . |
| 11 | It was described in a TReeS pamphlet as ‘ a project set up by Madre de Dios 's indigenous people which aims to combine the best of modern and traditional approaches to health-care , in order to maintain acceptable standards of health throughout the region 's native forest communities ’ . |