Example sentences of "be taken in [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light mornings are coming along and the cows can be taken in for milking earlier . |
| 2 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
| 3 | Instead of lawn … ruler-straight path … shrubs ( all of which can be taken in at a single glance , and are as individual as frozen pizzas ) , why not make the eye work ? |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll have to be taken in at the seams . ’ |
| 5 | Nothing white should ever be taken in at the waist . |
| 6 | Information has to be taken in to the brain — often through the eyes but this is only because humans rely so much upon this sense . |
| 7 | ‘ Mummy wants some shoes to be taken in to be stitched , and I can call in at Jessica Turvey 's . |
| 8 | It would be unreasonable to expect the reader to believe that so many professional scientists and administrators could be taken in to such an extent as the tale required . |
| 9 | Such information will be taken in to the evaluation procedure by the Press . |
| 10 | Yet it is still not certain exactly how much lead may be taken in from this source . |
| 11 | A sluice system , enabling water to be taken in from external drains and retained , has finally resolved the constant threat of ‘ drying out ’ . |
| 12 | In the households of the small master clothiers of the West Riding woollen manufacture , though not in its differently organised worsted branch , the wives , daughters and female servants may well have spun wool for the household 's own cloth — " Prithie , who mun sit at bobbin weel ? " asks the wife in a poem of 1730 when set another task by her husband — but even so yarn had still to be taken in from other spinners . |
| 13 | Do not be taken in by current usage . |
| 14 | The same report , reversing the earlier legend excusing the Führer because he was being kept in the dark by his underlings in the Party , added : ‘ Even the Führer has lost much sympathy among the people because he has apparently let himself be taken in by his Party people and does not seem to notice what things are like in the State today . ’ |
| 15 | She could get other boarders , he would never , with his reputation , be taken in by any other landlady in Florence no matter what was paid . |
| 16 | But you must not be taken in by McLaren and Honda . |
| 17 | Although in the event the old lady died first , towards the end it looked as if she would need to be taken in by one of her descendants and this caused distinct tension : ‘ we had least room and everything — and least money ’ , but ‘ there was a bit of squabbling in family . |
| 18 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 19 | Cantril , in 1966 , said that he did not believe — we are now somehow too sophisticated to be taken in by anything so fanciful . |
| 20 | Red Riding Hood could conceivably be taken in by an Irish Setter . |
| 21 | He was not foolish enough to be taken in by such tales ! |
| 22 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 23 | Do n't be taken in by it , do n't get eaten up by America . |
| 24 | And Arsenal manager George Graham last night warned his men not to be taken in by Leeds ' run of seven games without a win , saying : ‘ This is going to be the most open Championship race for years and I 'm taking no notice of people who are writing off Leeds . |
| 25 | But the Advertising Standards Authority warns that we should n't be taken in by these glowing testimonials . |
| 26 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 27 | The Homunculi are not truly intelligent , and can be taken in by any subterfuge along these lines if they fail an Int test ( which should be modified by the role-play skill of the adventurers ) . |
| 28 | Although it may be represented by the participants themselves as ‘ real ’ and ‘ literal ’ , the analyst should not be taken in by appearance which , while necessary for the act of communication , is only an ‘ as if ’ state . |
| 29 | One of Minton 's strengths as a teacher in Ruskin Spear 's view was his refusal to be taken in by fashion . |
| 30 | Mother and Father , through their church , were arranging for Jewish children to be taken in by local families . |