Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [be] [verb] in by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now an MP is concerned that it 's the thieves who are cashing in by using the sales as clearing houses for stolen property . |
| 2 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There are the tensions too between the younger men : Li Peng and the ultra-left in the Beijing party apparatus are ranged against Jiang Zemin and the other provincial leaders who were brought in by Deng Xiaoping after June 1989 to try to limit the damage . |
| 5 | Commiserations to all readers who were taken in by our April fool . |
| 6 | This Progressive influence lingered on as a minor theme in the cinema of the 1920s and was an obvious outlet for the continental directors who were drawn in by the glamour and potential of Hollywood . |
| 7 | At a ceremony attended by the appeal 's President , film and theatre star Anthony Hopkins , who was flown in by helicopter courtesy of British Gas ( Wales ) , an inscribed half-ton riven slate gatepost was put in place in the beautiful Nant Ffrancon pass , creating both a symbolic and practical ‘ gateway ’ to National Trust lands in Snowdonia . |
| 8 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 9 | There is a story about an old man who was called in by a factory to fix their ancient boiler , which had ground to a halt . |
| 10 | New general manager John Maddock , who was brought in by Swales and made the sacking of Reid virtually his first act , has also been the target of supporters ' anger . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |