Example sentences of "was [verb] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train was stopped in plenty of time and a few VIP and press party on board were even aware of the drama outside . |
| 2 | She was used to her old mistress 's pallor , to the skeleton thinness , to the heavy , bruised-looking eyes but walking into her bedroom on the beautiful summer 's morning and looking towards the bed she was stopped in her progress and forced to control the exclamation of horror that rose to her lips . |
| 3 | Zeinab was stopped in her tracks . |
| 4 | Utah 's natural-resources boom of the 1970s was stopped in its tracks , first by the recession of the early 1980s and then by the oil bust later in the decade . |
| 5 | But on the Stock Exchange the shares boom was stopped in its tracks after the Bank of England warned there would be no immediate cut . |
| 6 | With extremely heavy losses , the advance of the 77th Brigade over Talou Ridge was stopped in its tracks . |
| 7 | Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify . |
| 8 | One of the boarders was a clergyman , the Reverend Baron from Cheshire , and he , finding her at every turn with the Bible open , praised her devotion , which released from her such loud protestations of her unworthiness that he was stopped in his tracks . |
| 9 | Peter Turner , a computer installation manager from Lower Earley , near Reading , Berks , was stopped in his white Astra . |
| 10 | Prosecuting , Gareth Davies said Harbison had excess alcohol in his breath when he was stopped in his car by police on the A45 between Barrow and Bury St Edmunds . |
| 11 | He had been trying to steal silently away from the post-lunch chatter , but was stopped in his tracks at the foot of the great staircase as Sheila , glass in her left hand , laid the crimson-nailed fingers of her right hand along his lapel . |
| 12 | The younger James Stephen in essays in the Edinburgh Review in 1838 and 1843 , later republished and expanded in Essays in Ecclesiastical Biography ( 1849 ) , took up the tradition of abolitionist historical writing on antislavery and was joined in it by his younger brother , Sir George Stephen , with Anti-Slavery Recollections ( 1854 ) . |
| 13 | At a quarter to nine he was joined in his office by Kersey . |
| 14 | as if this was not enough , he was joined in his mad reverse by a colleague . |
| 15 | Rose was coughing in her sleep . |
| 16 | Alter two long years of hard work , the Corsair took to the air once again on August 22 , 1976 as NX1337A. and , after the required air test schedule , it was repainted in its original ‘ 15F.22 ’ markings , complete with the black and yellow Suez stripes . |
| 17 | Here La Péri 's ports de bras were flowing and sensual yet almost innocent in order to express the magical vision Askender , the poet , was seeing in his dream . |
| 18 | The initial shell of the model was erected in his Delhi office at Apple Tree Yard in London , and Royal Academicians involved in the painting of the various walls and ceilings crossed Piccadilly many times to be presented to Queen Mary or to exchange views and opinions with each other . |
| 19 | World starvation was halted in its tracks , Henry became a hero of the gossip columns , and everybody had one hell of a good time . |
| 20 | He was halted in his tracks , however , by a shout from the Padre . |
| 21 | She brandished her reticule fiercely and Amsterdam was halted in his tracks . |
| 22 | Her heart was fluttering in her chest . |
| 23 | His right elbow was leaning on the arm of the chair and his wide forehead was resting in his right hand as if he were suffering from migraine , troubles , fatigue . |
| 24 | It is time that envy was reinstated in its rightful place , as one of the basic data of individual and social psychology . |
| 25 | The Los Angeles police chief Daryl F. Gates was reinstated in his job on May 14 after Superior Court Judge Ronald Sohigian ruled that the city 's civilian police commission had acted improperly in suspending him . |
| 26 | This is reflected in the intentions of journals and in 1947 in the Journal of Glaciology the content of a leaflet issued by the British Glaciological Society was recalled in which |
| 27 | ‘ You look lovely , ’ said Camille , who was clad in her invariable faded and ripped blue jeans . |
| 28 | Gwendolen was clad in her dark blue serge travelling dress , this being the nearest to mourning she could manage . |
| 29 | On 12 November he was out-voted in his own Commission and the document was sent to the printer . |
| 30 | The Policemen submitted that … under the Vagrancy Act and the Liverpool Corporation Act , 1921 , enough suspicion was aroused in their minds by the actions of the two men to justify arrest . |