Example sentences of "[verb] in by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prime Minister Petre Roman insisted on April 13 during an official visit to France that the King 's intention to attend a demonstration in the Transylvanian city of Timisoara , which he claimed " would have been covered by about 80 journalists flown in by chartered plane " , invalidated the claim that his visit would have been only a " private " one . |
| 2 | She lives with Roche above the city in a ‘ Californian ’ company house on the Ridge : this suburb , barricaded , fireproof perhaps , but lived in by prospective quitters of the country , supplies a further scene for the events of the novel . |
| 3 | Both are no doubt splendid residences in their own ways , but the fact is they are different and lived in by different people . |
| 4 | Some people said their incomes were so low they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 5 | Some people said that their incomes were so low that they could not obtain mortgages and 18 were squatted in by former occupants who refused to pay the money . |
| 6 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 7 | For the purpose of comparison the three different types of representation for the utterance The order goes in by late November are shown below : |
| 8 | The three different stressed representations for the utterance The order goes in by late November are shown below : |
| 9 | It is easy to assume that there was a gap in Darwin 's theory that would later be filled in by modern knowledge of heredity . |
| 10 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 11 | Tamar had allowed Victoria to stay up late to watch the leading in of the last load , which was a ritual joined in by all the estate workers . |
| 12 | Yet someone had come in by that door , very softly , and was now motionless just within it , hesitating to advance into the choir and interrupt the second office of the day . |
| 13 | We pass the desolate grounds of a school , fenced in by barbed wire and patches of trodden grass . |
| 14 | I think good skin care is really important so I get sucked in by anti-wrinkle creams and things like that . |
| 15 | General Karl Steiner , carried in by two SS men , was already dead from a heart attack , the only good thing about the entire proceedings . |
| 16 | She made her way up to the hotel bedroom and was let in by one of the porters . |
| 17 | When she had been here three days a man had trailed up the stairs , let in by another tenant , hammering on her door . |
| 18 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |
| 19 | Others , including Sir Richard Lewkenor of West Dean , came in by that most profitable entrance in a chronically litigious society , the practice of law . |
| 20 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 21 | But Prudential finance director Michael Lawrence says that the bids put in by all the firms on the tender shortlist were ‘ virtually all of an allness on fees ’ . |
| 22 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 23 | There were no windows , but two large openings that could be closed in by folding doors . |
| 24 | Transparent hues predominate , while the edges are drawn in by both scraping back to the white ground and by applying dark lines with a gutta nib , a method also used with the watercolour . |
| 25 | I suppress an evil wish that an orca will be drawn in by this moving lunchbox of an animal . |
| 26 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 28 | James Lowther , creative director and deputy chairman at Saatchi and Saatchi , was quietly drafted in by Conservative Central Office over the weekend to spice up the closing stages of John Major 's campaign . |
| 29 | Neatly screened by another low wall of lattice-work bricks were a compost heap , bound in by wooden slats , and an empty metal incinerator . |
| 30 | Iraq pushes its forces into Kuwait and swiftly gains control of the country , claiming to have been invited in by Kuwaiti revolutionaries . |