Example sentences of "[verb] to the [noun prp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his instructions his luggage had already been carried to the Citron by the congaie . |
| 2 | The accepted wisdom that bulk car manufacturers buy exclusive marques ( Chrysler and Lamborghini , et cetera in the hope of garnering reflected glory is misplaced : any benefit that might accrue to the Escort by dint of its coming from the same stable as the Virage would be heavily outweighed by the damage done to the Virage by the Escort . |
| 3 | On another of occasion , Sullivan arrived in his armour-plated Chrysler ( which an enraged mob had once found too heavy to overturn ) to find the palace surrounded by tanks ( sold to the Shah by the British ) and by units of the Imperial Guard heavily armed with machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons . |
| 4 | To his surprise , he was not asked for McLean : ‘ Widening gulf ’ details of the attacks , but about the origins of the SMG 's involvement with the case , which had originally been referred to the SMG by the council . |
| 5 | Since 1987 the results of prospecting for gold and silver have been passed to the BGS by the Crown Estate Commissioners and will eventually be available for public inspection along with other information from the BGS archives . |
| 6 | It entered a private collection but was ordered to be returned to the Nationalgalerie by the Soviet military administration in 1949 . |