Example sentences of "in by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | The whindust was brought in by the dumpers . |
2 | Meet a man proud to go in by the tradesmen 's entrance |
3 | Even if the loan is not called in by the investors , there are likely to be other implications . |
4 | The finale includes a cunningly constructed canon during which Ferrando , still heartbroken , at first refuses to take part , until he is gradually drawn in by the others . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Pulled in by the cops , having to rescue a naked vicar and now it looked as if I was going to have to talk down a paranoid lesbian . |
7 | If logic and reason can interpret the information sent in by the senses and produce a conclusion that would change as the information changes , it is emotion that clouds our vision and leads to a state in which we do not see things as they are . |
8 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
9 | Because he took over his new duties in the close season Love has not had too many opportunities to meet many of the players , but the squad have had two nets at Moray House College , Edinburgh , the last two Fridays and Love has been impressed by the effort put in by the players at these sessions . |
10 | We were taken in by the lies which the Lebanese told about themselves ; we had to believe we had not seen the blood on the stairs . |
11 | Though the thermal establishment itself is quite stately , in the normal style of these amenities , the village is tightly shut in by the mountains on either side and is not much more than a ribbon of dark houses strung out along the main road . |
12 | The men march with their warders and when they are clear of the confines of the fences for those few steps they are hemmed in by the soldiers and the dogs . |
13 | Has my mother any entitlement to income on the £60,000 as it was being gathered in by the solicitors and prior to it being handed over to the investment adviser for the purchase of the securities agreed by the trustees ? |
14 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
15 | News of the Romans and the pending invasion was probably brought in by the merchants . |
16 | The traveller was then grilled by the corrupt Indian border officials : ‘ Their custom was to take a quarter of everything brought in by the merchants and to exact a duty of seven dinars for every horse . ’ |
17 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
18 | In an inner room , beyond the typewriter cubicle , was a small cavern constructed of filing cabinets , inhabited by Dr Beatrice Nest , almost bricked in by the boxes containing the diary and correspondence of Ellen Ash . |
19 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
20 | The plantation itself is close to a feeder stream that runs straight into the Cothi , as would acid taken in by the conifers . |
21 | A police spokesman said that the woman victim had all her faculties and they feared that others could be taken in by the smooth-talkers . |
22 | Cuervo is the Spanish for crow , which is the Celtic bird sent in by the Gods on the eve of battle . |
23 | Also blamed are other Arabs — Lebanese , Sudanese , Yemenis and Jordanians — who were brought in by the Iraqis to help police Kuwait . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
26 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
27 | Her mother , Avril , felt trapped , tired and depressed , hemmed in by the demands of a fretful strong-willed toddler , ten-year-old John , who was beginning to refuse to go to school , and her ‘ selfish ’ husband , James . |
28 | Opposite was the site of the Royal Palace lived in by the kings of Bohemia from the Hussite Wars in 1419 , until King Vladislav reasserting the rights of kingship in 1484 , returned to the castle . |
29 | Well I certainly believe that many of these expertises will be held centrally at County Hall and will be purchased in by the schools , and there is nothing wrong in that . |
30 | It may be , then , that the idea of the circular tombs was brought in by the immigrants who arrived in Crete from Anatolia at the beginning of the bronze age . |