Example sentences of "take [adv prt] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The crowd also demanded the removal of the two remaining statues of Stalin from central Ulan Bator , one of which was taken down by the authorities on Jan. 16 . |
| 4 | The memorial harbour light on Carraig Fhada at the entrance to Kilnaughton Bay was built in 1853 and taken over by the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses in 1924 . |
| 5 | It had a capacity of 20,000 tons in timber silos and was taken over by the Commissioners in 1906 . |
| 6 | The occasional broadcasts had been taken over by the priests with their simplistic message of all-out war with the Hunters and , the more disturbing subtext , of the people needing to repent and place their fate in the hands of the Prime Mover . |
| 7 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 8 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 9 | This festival was linked in the East with the birth of Mithras and later taken over by the Christians by conveniently moving the birthday of Christ to this date . |
| 10 | Some of these covers were actually odd pieces of common land , old cow-pastures that had been allowed to get out of hand , taken over by the fox-hunters for fencing and preservation , in return for a money payment to the holders of the common rights . |
| 11 | Joss-stick and Asian artefact merchants added to the atmosphere of the Indian countryside suddenly taken over by the children of the long boom . |
| 12 | The convent was in the protection of St Sophia and the church was dedicated to her , but changed its dedication when the building was taken over by the nuns of the Salesiane della Visitazione order . |
| 13 | A large part of its small area is taken up by the grounds of The Crystal Palace and by a residential school . |
| 14 | A critical factor appears to be the enhanced influx of external calcium which is taken up by the stores with two consequences . |
| 15 | The £56 ( for fitting an Alfasud seat ) included a metal bar to reduce the space taken up by the safety-straps in the boot . |
| 16 | But Lazio have told them that he is covered by the policy taken out by the Italians at the time of his summer signing from Tottenham . |