Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] in by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 2 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 3 | ( In fact , over fifty additional questionnaires had been sent in by the third week in November ) . |
| 4 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 5 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 6 | For him the civilization stage of European culture had been ushered in by the French Revolution . |
| 7 | Apparently , she had been taken in by the Madam who ran the house , a woman called Bella Cohen , who adopted her almost as her daughter , by personally , I always found it hard to believe myself . " |
| 8 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |
| 9 | She had been taken in by the man , accepting him as charming company when they first met , playing along with his flattering nonsense . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 13 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 14 | He had been brought in by the conglomerate owners , Reed International , who were planning to float the Mirror Group off as a separate company and wanted someone to mastermind the move . |
| 15 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 16 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |