Example sentences of "was [verb] in at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was to sit in at least thirteen further Parliaments , six times for Guildford and five times for Surrey . |
| 2 | The idea , based on a shared controller architecture , was to come in at two to four times the performance of a conventional X box and reach pricing levels of $700-$800 a seat in two to three years . |
| 3 | Wycliffe was booked in at a hotel on the waterfront , up river from the wharf and facing the village of Flushing across a narrow stretch of water . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had a kind of ear infection which caused giddiness and I had to come out of the West End play I was appearing in at the time , The Rose Tattoo . |
| 6 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 7 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 8 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 9 | Speakers were David Snow of BP Bitor ( the company which imports and markets the fuel from Venezuela ) , Peter Taylor from the Oil Pollution Research Unit at Fort Popton , Dr Clive Morgan , also from Fort Popton but who was drafted in at the last minute to play the part of National Power Plc , and finally Gordon James of Narberth Friends of the Earth . |
| 10 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 11 | Railway authorities were particularly concerned over tickets getting into the wrong hands ; a minor sensation was caused on the Southern Region or BR about 30 years ago when a blank ticket from South Snowdon on the former Welsh Highland Railway was handed in at Clapham Junction . |
| 12 | A GREY parrot had detectives baffled last night when it was handed in at a Liverpool police station . |
| 13 | Peters also bid on the larger , and far more dazzling ‘ Red-Canna ’ ( lot 169 est. $500–700,000 ) , but while he went to $450,000 , the painting was bought in at $475,000 . |
| 14 | Although Christie 's promoted the picture extensively , giving it a separate catalogue , the picture was bought in at £3.6 million . |
| 15 | ‘ If he had just painted a cushion instead ! ’ sighed one viewer , as it was bought in at $140,000 ( £80,459 ) ( est. $25–275,000 ) . |
| 16 | Only one of the fifty-six lots , a seventeenth-century two-part walnut cabinet , was bought in at FFr750,000 ( £77,950 ; $135,600 ) , just under its high and somewhat optimistic estimate . |
| 17 | A pair of granite chairs by Scott Burton ( lot 55 , est. $100–150,000 ) sold for $80,000 ( £44,400 ) , in spite of concerns about their condition Lichtenstein 's ‘ Laughing cat ’ ( lot 44a , est. $350–450,000 ) failed to attract any interest and was bought in at $190,000 . |
| 18 | Lucian Freud 's compelling ‘ Night Interior ’ ( lot 44 , est. $500–600,000 ) , which was owned by Saatchi , attracted a couple of hesitant bids from Anthony d'Offay , who had exhibited the picture at his gallery in 1972 , but was bought in at $260,000 . |
| 19 | Another important but unsuccessful Goya was offered at Edmund Peel on 19 May : the portrait of the court embroiderer Juan Lopez de Robredo ( lot 10 ) was bought in at Pta210 million ( £1.1 million ; $2.1 million ) . |
| 20 | She explained : ‘ I was called in at the last minute to help style a photographic session for Kylie about 18 months ago and it went from there . |
| 21 | Problems started when a developer for the hotel could not be found , and Mr Graham was called in at the behest of the main creditor , the Bank of Scotland . |
| 22 | The three alien forms were originally to be realized by Roger Dicken ; but he completed the small forms only , and Rambaldi was called in at short notice to do the Alien head . |
| 23 | He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director , Bill Naysmith . |
| 24 | There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road . |
| 25 | Pastoral barley on light land , giving a ‘ good average ’ yield in excess of 6.3t/ha ( 2.5t/acre ) was coming in at 13.5% moisture — ‘ better than expected ’ . |
| 26 | Being a rebel in Taibach 's mining and chapel community was coming in at 1O.50 when you had promised to be in by 1O.15 . |
| 27 | Eva was coming in at a high spot of the Army 's history . |
| 28 | I du n no I just , I was coming in at dinner time and there was a , a double decker bus with all its front smashed in , the wall fell over |
| 29 | Douglas Wilder became the first elected black Governor in US history when he was sworn in at Richmond , Virginia , on Jan. 13 . |
| 30 | In the second-round run-off presidential election held on May 8 , 1988 , Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the centre-left Democratic Left ( Izquierda Democrática — ID ) polled 46 per cent of the vote and was sworn in at the head of a new government on Aug. 10 [ see p. 36343 ] . |