Example sentences of "[verb] in by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 2 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 3 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 4 | When the processing requested by a form has been completed the request form will be returned to the lexicographers with the Completion Confirmed on Date filled in by the New OED Computer Group . |
| 5 | It 's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door . |
| 6 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 7 | Going in by the back door |
| 8 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 9 | There would need to be a reorganisation of share capital , so that management 's shares entitle them exclusively to receive an in specie distribution of the shares in Target , following which their shares in the holding company would become worthless deferred shares ( which could then be bought in by the holding company for a nominal price ) . |
| 10 | expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right . |
| 11 | Penned in by the subliminal surrealism on the screens , knocked out of the way by the mobile cartoon tableaux that slice aggressively through the audience ( mini-stages dragged around at high speed ) , people do n't quite know where to look or go next . |
| 12 | The social worker might be called in by the general practitioner , district nurse , physiotherapist or the carer . |
| 13 | By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty . |
| 14 | Perlita Harris of Black and In Care , called in by the young people as an advocate , told Community Care : ‘ The borough has treated these vulnerable young people appallingly . |
| 15 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 16 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 17 | I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know . |
| 18 | He moved rapidly down-river to Rouen where a number of merchant vessels had been driven in by the exceptional tide , and requisitioned twenty-eight boats . |
| 19 | This was for a toroidal magnetic confinement system ( see figure ) with a circulating current of electrons pinched in by the magnetic field generated by the current . |
| 20 | therefore it is quite important to grasp at this stage that moving the lace carriage to transfer stitches is only setting up the pattern of holes that will next be knitted in by the main carriage . |
| 21 | The regulatory regime brought in by the Financial Services Act has been costly and disruptive for offices and confusing for their customers . |
| 22 | Although as a breed pension providers act very conservatively , and moreover , your money would be protected under the strict rules brought in by the Financial Services Act , no one can forecast with total confidence how well or otherwise any particular investment will do . |
| 23 | This hit carpets and furniture retailing particularly hard , as did new furniture fire regulations brought in by the European Commission piecemeal . |
| 24 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 25 | Medical practice booklets four years ago or it 's five years now I guess , five years ago erm er it 's almost five , legislation was brought in by the then Health Secretary Ken Clarke now our dear Chancellor . |
| 26 | What a complete condemnation of the Thatcherite policies that were attempted to be brought in by the controlling group opposite . |
| 27 | Free banking was brought in by the big banks to fight off the challenge of building societies , who were offering high-interest accounts . |
| 28 | The age he lived in was stupid ; the new age , brought in by the Franco-Prussian war , would be even stupider . |
| 29 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 30 | New rules brought in by the National Rivers Authority outlaw many part-time fishermen and their small boats from traditional grounds between Flint and Mostyn . |