Example sentences of "be [verb] in by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After a while Strawberry ended by saying , " We 're nearly at the great burrow now , but we 're corning in by a different way . " |
| 5 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was to be no all-powerful central state apparatus , and political leaders were to be given no blank cheques ; on the contrary , they were to be hedged in by a complex , decentralized and fragmented system designed to prevent any one leader or group of leaders from becoming excessively powerful . |
| 9 | She was such a level-headed , dynamic person ; and to be taken in by a scut like him . ’ |
| 10 | This has none of the mysticism about it , but has been hammered in by a pragmatic human being , after careful choice of the most suitable section available . |
| 11 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 12 | ‘ I think it 's pretty well known that some of the ones that are going to get a particularly close look are the ones I mentioned , either because they are not being competed in by a lot of people in a great many countries , or they are expensive , and so on . ’ |
| 13 | He thought the cannabis was being shipped in by a small-time Dutch gangster trying to muscle in on the Amsterdam syndicate . |
| 14 | Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin , the latter totally naked , stumbled into the street and were taken in by a neighbour who offered them a shower and clothing . |
| 15 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 16 | The couple 's recent past is filled in by a series of ‘ flash-ins ’ , influenced by the French nouvelle vague . |
| 17 | In addition to all this , during the holiday period a newly bought fifteen foot wide Axminster spool gripper loom was lifted in by a seventy ton crane , and now awaits assembly . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The international civil rights group was called in by a province-wide body of Protestant community leaders , the Ulster Community Action Network ( UCAN ) . |
| 20 | Although most Panamanians will welcome the departure of General Noriega , the fact that their new President was sworn in by a US army general at a US army base is likely to colour perceptions of the new government . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was brought in by a refugee from the persecution of the Catholic church about that time , when thousands of British communicants , including the bishops of York and Carlisle , perished . |
| 22 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 23 | Soon after the outbreak of World War II , Sinclair was taken in by a deception operation mounted by the German Sicherheitsdienst ( the SS security service ) which led to the capture of two of his officers in the Dutch border town of Venlo . |
| 24 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
| 25 | The question was sent in by a viewer and ran as follows : ‘ Will Mr Kinnock , if he becomes Prime Minister , return the Elgin Marbles to Athens ? ’ |
| 26 | A copy of the catalogue of this exhibition was sent in by a reader recently and it is quite mind-blowing to read what a wealth of aircraft and engines were on display : |
| 27 | Jane accompanied her hostess , who had taken her ten-year-old bronchial , backward ( ‘ France is the capital of Paris ’ ) overactive child to one , and while waiting was confided in by a fashionable , staring-eyed woman . |