Example sentences of "in by [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cloth Fair was a narrow , gloomy street , hemmed in by tall Georgian buildings . |
| 2 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 3 | Er parried by , pushed away , pushed in by two two , er and that left er as the architect but not the finisher . |
| 4 | Choose a proper one and hand it in by one fifty , today . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister has , like Eden before him , become both bogged down and boxed in by one big issue at the expense of the general election mandate secured only the previous year . |
| 6 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 7 | Depression had descended on her , hemmed in by all these people , driving along a straight dreary road . |
| 8 | The work put in by all these was specially appreciated . |
| 9 | James Lowther , creative director and deputy chairman at Saatchi and Saatchi , was quietly drafted in by Conservative Central Office over the weekend to spice up the closing stages of John Major 's campaign . |
| 10 | But the Advertising Standards Authority warns that we should n't be taken in by these glowing testimonials . |
| 11 | He died very soon afterwards , and this young daughter was taken in by some poor people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've a heavy afternoon ahead , and I 'm off to Paris tomorrow — by parachute if they ca n't get me in by any other method . |
| 14 | If she had n't already had evidence of his contempt for her she would almost be taken in by this new smiling look . |
| 15 | I suppress an evil wish that an orca will be drawn in by this moving lunchbox of an animal . |
| 16 | The money was brought in by direct weekly collection , but sales of various kinds and by that once universally popular but now almost vanished institution , the Guest Tea . |