Example sentences of "[verb] in by the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | Half of the extra cash will be forthcoming only if projects of sufficient quality to take up the whole £2 million come in by the next deadline for grants on 1 April . |
| 3 | If Lili had come in by the back door it had been very late indeed . |
| 4 | In truth , Cabernet is beginning to creep in by the back door . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | The social worker might be called in by the general practitioner , district nurse , physiotherapist or the carer . |
| 12 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This hit carpets and furniture retailing particularly hard , as did new furniture fire regulations brought in by the European Commission piecemeal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What a complete condemnation of the Thatcherite policies that were attempted to be brought in by the controlling group opposite . |
| 22 | The age he lived in was stupid ; the new age , brought in by the Franco-Prussian war , would be even stupider . |
| 23 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 24 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 25 | From the free-kick , Anderton 's shot squeezed through a wall which resembled a collander , hit Deane on the way through and rolled in by the near post . |
| 26 | She went in by the front door and upstairs to her room ; and was still being torn apart by her emotions . |
| 27 | Last time the fibre-optic and wire-cutter had gone in by the front door ; this time they were to enter by the back . |
| 28 | There 's a lot of training and safety instruction a huge amount of effort put in by the Civil Aviation Authority amongst others who explain to pilots and bring safety considerations to the forefront . |
| 29 | Taken in by the slow-breathing soil creatures , the toxin accumulates in their bodies until it reaches lethal proportions . |
| 30 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |