Example sentences of "taken [adv] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wrote to three or four firms she had had contact with and was taken on by a small partnership in Orpington . |
| 2 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 3 | He was illiterate and possessed a limited knowledge of English , and had a partner who was unscrupulous ; he was utterly vulnerable , a lamb to the slaughter , taken in by a rotter . |
| 4 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 5 | Cathy Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin , the latter totally naked , stumbled into the street and were taken in by a neighbour who offered them a shower and clothing . |
| 6 | Soon after the outbreak of World War II , Sinclair was taken in by a deception operation mounted by the German Sicherheitsdienst ( the SS security service ) which led to the capture of two of his officers in the Dutch border town of Venlo . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She was such a level-headed , dynamic person ; and to be taken in by a scut like him . ’ |
| 9 | Just 24 pictures taken inside by a prison officer on film provided by the guests , will record the nuptials . |
| 10 | As the dog does so , he is taken down by a snatch on the lead . |
| 11 | Again , he is taken down by a very firm snatch of the lead . |
| 12 | ‘ Was it taken down by a policeman ? ’ |
| 13 | It was given an injection against shock and pain and it was taken away by a rejoicing owner . |
| 14 | ‘ We built it up , it is our baby , ’ he said , adding that if the family allowed its interest to fall below 50 per cent it would risk being taken over by a hostile bidder . |
| 15 | Its responsibilities East of Suez would be taken over by a new tri-Service headquarters established at Aden under an air vice-marshal with the title of HQ British Forces , Middle East . |
| 16 | The palazzo was built in the early seventeenth century and after spending a period as one of the centres of Milanese high life it was taken over by a prestigious academy , the Accademia dei Fenici . |
| 17 | 1970 saw another change when the canteen was taken over by a catering company , and vending machines for hot and cold drinks , and snacks were provided . |
| 18 | Polly 's duties were taken over by a Groses ‘ bus of Northampton . |
| 19 | On the grandfather 's death , the farm was taken over by a bachelor son who set about founding a Clydesdale stud . |
| 20 | Under a deal signed the following year , EPSI was taken over by a consortium formed by the Finnish chemical company Neste with the Portuguese companies Cortesi and Quintas & Quintas . |
| 21 | Nelson 's column unexpectedly has now been taken over by a large , bearded Welshman , called Davydd . |
| 22 | Struggling Second Division Wigan Athletic have been taken over by a London-based consortium . |
| 23 | 2 ( — ) BOOMERANG : Love 'em and leave 'em adman Eddie Murphy gets his come-uppance when his firm is taken over by a woman in this frivolous star vehicle . |
| 24 | In Modern Masterpiece there is the idea of people being taken over by a force greater than themselves and dancing themselves to death , and that seems to tie in a bit with what is going on |
| 25 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 26 | The Benson and Hedges cricket competition will then be no more ; the increasingly national rugby league competition will probably be taken over by a beer , cola , telecommunications , or insurance sponsor . |
| 27 | Sam Oxley 's millwright business was taken over by a Mr Wheatcroft in a turn a Mr Thompson took over from him . |
| 28 | Of course the company did n't pay any dividend , and has now been taken over by a firm making china and porcelain goods . |
| 29 | After the psychological hyperrealism of the early chapters of Ulysses , the text is taken over by a bewildering variety of voices and discourses — parodic , travestying , colloquial , literary : newspaper headlines , oratory , women 's magazines , pub talk , operatic songs , encyclopaedia articles , and so on ; while the narrative level of the text is full of gaps , non sequiturs , anticlimaxes , and unsolvable enigmas , and the chronological order of events is broken down and rearranged by the operations of memory and the association of ideas in the consciousness of characters . |
| 30 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |