Example sentences of "been [verb] in [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 3 | Route options have been squeezed in down a narrow corridor of land near the A19 . |
| 4 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 5 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 6 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 7 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 8 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 9 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 10 | In 1855 he had been brought in as a partner to Beyer & Peacock 's Gorton factory in Manchester , recently built for the manufacture of railway locomotives , and he maintained an active role in the management of Beyer , Peacock & Co. until his death . |
| 11 | She also found herself naturally in tune with Laura 's taste and , although her job specification was to oversee the entire design structure for clothes , Laura advised her that she ‘ had been brought in as a flanker to Moira ’ . |
| 12 | But this dog , known as a Mexican hairless , landed him in court when trading standards officers in Felixstowe discovered it had been brought in without a licence . |
| 13 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 . |
| 14 | The second is a multi-media , schematic plan for a large advertiser , in which bursts of advertising have been blocked in as a basis for more precise , detailed planning at a later date . |
| 15 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 16 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 17 | I think he must have been put in from a boat . " |
| 18 | Money has been rolling in from a very wide range of fund raising activities undertaken by JM sites and individuals around the country . |
| 19 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 20 | If the property has been lived in for a long time with old carpets that have never been shampooed they can exude quite pungent odours . |
| 21 | The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel . |
| 22 | Paradoxically , ‘ people 's capitalism ’ has been ushered in at a time when the long-term trend towards a greater equality in wealth may have been reversed , and in a manner that has firmly excluded the poorest from acquiring capital assets themselves . |
| 23 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |