Example sentences of "in by a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Er I , I suppose yes they probably were expected to be in by a definite time . |
2 | In 1818 , the outraged county magnates forced his withdrawal but he was swept back in by a temporary swing in support from the freehold voters . |
3 | He thought the cannabis was being shipped in by a small-time Dutch gangster trying to muscle in on the Amsterdam syndicate . |
4 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , who had been acting President since Collor 's suspension in September , was immediately sworn in by a joint session of the Congress as President for the remaining two years of the five-year presidential term . |
5 | The custom of cleaning the close had been explained to Madge on the day she moved in by a small woman carrying a metal pail and a large card . |
6 | Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ? |
7 | 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 . |
8 | ‘ We go in by a roundabout route . |
9 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
10 | A cat suffering from alopecia was given an injection of a cortico steriod and a dog brought in by a near-hysterical owner was found to be only badly bruised . |
11 | They should be reminded that the major investors coming into Ogwr borough , and Bridgend in particular , were Ford of Bridgend , which was brought in under Jim Callaghan 's Labour Government , and the Japanese company , Sony , which was also brought in by a Labour Government . |
12 | Three who did were Edith and Egbert Rose and Auguste , almost forcibly pushed in by a desperate Mr Multhrop . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
15 | If you wanted the report handed in by a certain day , why did n't you say so ? |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | Before the site became part of a private country park the building was lived in by a local tenant farmer named Mrs Hollington . |
19 | John took his party in by a back door , using the yard between the Foreign Office and the new building . |
20 | He was then taken in by a Lutheran pastor in Lobetal north of Berlin but moved to a government guest house in late March because of local opposition to his presence . |
21 | The international civil rights group was called in by a province-wide body of Protestant community leaders , the Ulster Community Action Network ( UCAN ) . |
22 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
23 | He says in the centre of the site there 's a land-drain put in by a previous farmer which drains into a stream which runs into the River Thame . |
24 | What the tourists come to see is a raised dais of grass hemmed in by a retaining wall . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | After a while Strawberry ended by saying , " We 're nearly at the great burrow now , but we 're corning in by a different way . " |