Example sentences of "have been [verb] in by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building industry has been cashing in by providing sheltered housing schemes for elderly people , there is a whole holiday industry built around holidays for the elderly and more and more private nursing homes are springing up . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson has been called in by trainees from Billingham 's Astra Training Centre . |
| 3 | This er turf trivia today has been sent in by S who comes from Great Lumley in County Down . |
| 4 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 5 | It is blatantly obvious here that Mitch has been taken in by Blanche 's deception . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 8 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 9 | How could she ever have been taken in by Nigel Westwood ? |
| 10 | Iraq pushes its forces into Kuwait and swiftly gains control of the country , claiming to have been invited in by Kuwaiti revolutionaries . |
| 11 | The pool in their own garden had been filled in by her father five years before when her baby brother had drowned there ; but she loved to sit by cool water , inured to the stinging flies which gave people from the north so much trouble . |
| 12 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 13 | The well bubbled into a tributary of the Moy , but unfortunately it had been hemmed in by modern concrete and so had lost a great deal of its charm . |
| 14 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 15 | ( In fact , over fifty additional questionnaires had been sent in by the third week in November ) . |
| 16 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This house had been lived in by Lord Byron at one time . |
| 19 | For him the civilization stage of European culture had been ushered in by the French Revolution . |
| 20 | Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother 's father up to the age of six , living in a cottage by Denbigh castle ; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse . |
| 21 | What Alice could not forgive herself was that she had been taken in by it all well , she had had the sense to get out in time , and meet people who could lead her on the right path … |
| 22 | Apparently , she had been taken in by the Madam who ran the house , a woman called Bella Cohen , who adopted her almost as her daughter , by personally , I always found it hard to believe myself . " |
| 23 | The party view , express d well by the Conservative Agents " journal , was that the Unionists in the Speaker 's Conference had been taken in by the Liberal members , that they had not sought or received any professional advice , and that they had blundered accordingly . |
| 24 | She had been taken in by the man , accepting him as charming company when they first met , playing along with his flattering nonsense . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 28 | A final nail in the coffin had been hammered in by Wrede . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | 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 . |