Example sentences of "[verb] as [pers pn] [verb] be by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tiles around Virginia 's bedroom fire-place , with the central motif of sailing boat and lighthouse , were designed especially by Vanessa , moved as she had been by her sister 's novel , To the Lighthouse , which memorialised their childhood summers at St Ives in Cornwall . |
| 2 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 3 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 4 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |
| 5 | Perhaps now teenagers — brainwashed as they have been by teen magazines , TV programmes and pop stars who all glamorise sex — will understand why it is so much wiser to wait . |
| 6 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |