Example sentences of "be [verb] in by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 2 | Agricultural details were a nice reciprocal touch : the Hind helicopters , with which the Sandinistas were destroying the contras , had allegedly been shipped in by the Russians in crates labelled agricultural produce . |
| 3 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 4 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 5 | This serial number will be filled in by the lexicographers and will represent the order in which the Project Director requires the forms to be actioned . |
| 6 | Many children are quite happy to run , push , pull , ride and climb , but when an adult is standing by , ready to help , she is sure to be drawn in by the children as in the following example . |
| 7 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 8 | A police spokesman said that the woman victim had all her faculties and they feared that others could be taken in by the smooth-talkers . |
| 9 | Well I certainly believe that many of these expertises will be held centrally at County Hall and will be purchased in by the schools , and there is nothing wrong in that . |
| 10 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 11 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
| 12 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 13 | Some , but only some , members of the resistance distinguish between the Palestinians who were brought in by the Iraqis to do a bit of their dirty work , and Kuwait 's large and long-established Palestinian population . |
| 14 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
| 15 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |
| 16 | I mean , I do think we need to er recognise that tremendous efforts are being put in by the individuals employed by the D S Os , but I do think that we need to recognise also , that there is a lot lacking in the , particularly the marketing of the services . |
| 17 | The men march with their warders and when they are clear of the confines of the fences for those few steps they are hemmed in by the soldiers and the dogs . |
| 18 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |
| 19 | He in his turn was carried in by the men . |
| 20 | The whindust was brought in by the dumpers . |
| 21 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |
| 22 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 23 | This was bad luck on Helga , who got drunk with an American soldier and was not allowed to forget it , and on Hildegard , who was taken in by the police when she was seen talking to an ex-convict , but worked in favour of Martin , who made quite a business out of playing cards for money but who was judged ‘ on the whole to be doing no worse than any other boy of his age in his particular Position ’ . |