Example sentences of "taken in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taken in by the image of yourself they present you with , wrote Harsnet , instead of waiting in patience for the beginning , instead of waiting and then beginning , though beginning , having begun , he wrote , is not everything , is far from everything . |
| 2 | Do not be taken in by current usage . |
| 3 | But the play , because it wants its bread buttered on both sides , keeps its options open until the end on the issue of whether she is genuinely taken in by her husband 's lie or whether her insistence that the girl stay the weekend , her broody concern for the future of the fictitious baby , and marriage-broking on behalf of Julie are just ways of stoking up Jacques 's embarrassment . |
| 4 | The day 's activities included a slide show of photographs taken in and around Southall . |
| 5 | Most of the merchandise outside greengrocers ' and florists ' had already been taken in and now it was the turn of the sunblinds to be furled and waterproof awnings to take their place . |
| 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 | The plantation itself is close to a feeder stream that runs straight into the Cothi , as would acid taken in by the conifers . |
| 8 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |
| 9 | The reader is always aware that although he knows and mostly likes the people he is writing about , he is not necessarily taken in by their ideas . |
| 10 | The managers could be appointed from inside the service or taken in from outside . |
| 11 | I wonder how many times I was taken in by his Yankee sincerity , his B-movie honesty . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was quoting now , it seemed to Sam , something she 'd probably read and never really taken in before . |
| 15 | But you must not be taken in by McLaren and Honda . |
| 16 | But the tourists are always taken in . |
| 17 | After the hearing Mr Rodmell , said : ‘ Great swathes of beach are being taken in and put under the banner of Sites of Special Scientific Interest , which makes things very difficult for us when we need bait . |
| 18 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 19 | While nationally the proportion of lead taken in by people from water is 6 per cent , in areas with high lead levels in water this can rise to more than 50 per cent . |
| 20 | A small garden that can be taken in at a glance can soon become boring . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Similarly , a motherless Glasgow soldier 's daughter was taken in by her grandparents and brought up with the help of an aunt , who married soon after but stayed in the same home . |
| 26 | I do n't like him , but he 's a cynical bastard and wo n't be taken in by the likes of Buckmaster . ’ |
| 27 | He is quick of hand , extremely wise in counsel , merciful to suppliants , and kind to those taken in under his protection . |
| 28 | And yet it is important to breathe through the nose as the air taken in is then warmed and moistened before entering the lungs . |
| 29 | ‘ Mummy wants some shoes to be taken in to be stitched , and I can call in at Jessica Turvey 's . |
| 30 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |