Example sentences of "be [verb] in by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 4 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 5 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 6 | ‘ But we are a bit concerned that they have been barricaded in by the Coal Board , so even if they want to , they can not get out . |
| 7 | A Middle East dollar market exists in Bahrain where euro-dollars ( and other currencies ) are intermediated in by a number of Arab and non-Arab banks . |
| 8 | After a while Strawberry ended by saying , " We 're nearly at the great burrow now , but we 're corning in by a different way . " |
| 9 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 10 | By undertaking extravagant adventures aimed at preserving lives which have clearly been called in by the Great Reaper , doctors are not serving the best interests of their clients , which is I take it , their first duty . |
| 11 | I am an accountant , I have been called in by the bank , and my duty is to the bank . |
| 12 | Quite often ( but not always ) such cases are called in by the Secretary of State even where the planning authority is minded to grant consent , in order to allow interested groups a chance to air their views ; so it can all take a long time . |
| 13 | Some bureaux have been invited in by the probation or education departments or by the prison governor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The shop had recently been taken over and the existing stock had been brought in by the previous owner . |
| 23 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The pack says social workers should take responsibility for ensuring the forms are completed but they can be filled in by the person the child is living with . |
| 26 | But this theory begs a question : if the score was copied for a revival , or indeed after it , why was it done in haste , and — even more to the point — why were there blanks which had to be filled in by the composer ? |
| 27 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 28 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 29 | At its most conventional , the use of word pairs is a substitute for creative poetic activity , whereas the parallelism of greater precision is a subtle relationship between or among the lines of poetry that can only be designed in by a relatively sophisticated artist . |
| 30 | 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 . |