Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was always a long wait for an appointment , sometimes up to a month , and women were only kept in for 24 hours if it was a normal birth . |
| 2 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 3 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 4 | The parents of one family were n't taken in for questioning at all that day , but Mrs W was . |
| 5 | Police marksmen were then drafted in for a 12 hour siege after he barricaded himself in . |