Example sentences of "they have been kept in " in BNC.

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1 The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release .
2 Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington .
3 Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi .
4 People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work .
5 He said : ‘ We have had a string of complaints about rats from the allotments and they have been kept in a very poor condition . ’
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