Sentence examples for having been tricked from inspiring English sources

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Furious at having been tricked, Louis XIV had him quietly abducted and imprisoned at Pinerolo (1679).

In 1917 a Zeppelin got as far as Khartoum before turning back apparently having been tricked by a bogus radio message sent by the British.

The vast majority died in the "killing fields", driven there at night in lorries having been tricked that they were being moved to a new house.

Having been tricked by Ms. Diallo, none of the seasoned lawyers or investigators could ask a jury to convict Mr. Strauss-Kahn based on those very tools of dramatic persuasion.

It is a tribute to Arthur Phillips's singular skill that his work leaves the reader not with resentment at having been tricked but rather with gratitude for the gift of feigned wonder.

And, of course, that critical, crippling moment when Fontaine descends the grand staircase to the Manderley masquerade ball, having been tricked by Mrs Danvers into wearing a replica of one of Rebecca's old gowns.

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She looked like she had been tricked.

The authorities had been tricked by the weather.

I feel somehow that I have been tricked.

When the stable owner learned that he had been tricked he had Ricky beaten up.

"I felt like I had been tricked, because in fact there was no threat," Pollack said.

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