Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | We visited the Baltic Yacht Club , owned by the Baltic Shipping Company , where we were shown around by the friendly vice commodore , Alexey Bulkanov . |
| 2 | Most of the airfields were bomber units , with the exception of Debden in Essex , a Mustang base , where they were talked down by the American Ground Controllers after exercising around in fog for some time . |
| 3 | In the sixteenth century it was found more convenient and safer for these goods to be transported overland to the ports of northern Italy , where they were picked up by Ragusan merchants . |
| 4 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |
| 5 | Swift introduced Diaper to his circle where he was taken up by Henry St John , first Viscount Bolingbroke , and Sir William Wyndham [ qq.v . ] . |
| 6 | Five British soldiers were killed in Londonderry , 10 were seriously injured and about 18 residents of a nearby housing estate were treated in hospital when early on Oct. 24 a man was forced by the Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) to drive a van packed with explosives into an Army checkpoint , where it was blown up by remote control . |
| 7 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 8 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 9 | Suppose indeed that we were hedged in by limitations of comprehension we could not comprehend ? |
| 10 | The two countries , he said , had never been at war , although he acknowledged North Korea 's right to seek property damages linked to Japan 's colonial rule , provided that they were backed up by " objective evidence " . |
| 11 | I simply heard from numerous of my friends that they were rung up by quite junior Whips who stressed that Alec was standing , having decided to renounce his peerage . |
| 12 | That was not too bad but , like most ideas ahead of their time , I am afraid that it was voted down by 182 votes to 170 . |
| 13 | With trading settlements and ports of call at Goa , the Cape and Lisbon , the Portuguese undermined the economy of the Mameluke Empire to such an extent that it was taken over by the Ottomans in 1517 . |
| 14 | The moon had risen but no sooner did it spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud . |
| 15 | Frankish annals record that Eardwulf visited Charlemagne and Pope Leo III and that he was escorted back by imperial and papal envoys and re-established in his kingdom in 808 . |
| 16 | It is said that he was found out by one of the groups of civilian vigilantes who sprang up spontaneously on 22 December : apparently he had disguised himself in ordinary working clothes and was driving a Dacia 1300 when stopped , but suspicion was aroused when a search of his car revealed citrus fruits , like oranges and pineapples , in the boot — no ordinary Romanian had access to them . |
| 17 | ‘ So it was set off by the simple act of turning on the lamp ? ’ |
| 18 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 19 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |
| 20 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 21 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 22 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 23 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 24 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 25 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 26 | The first house Jane looked at was moated and she was shown over by an ex-policeman who seemed happy to be working for an estate agent . |
| 27 | I wonder if I were to kill her , if she were dead , if she were knocked over by a car , would that make the jealousy , that mixture of anxiety , grief and fear of exclusion , simply stop ? |
| 28 | It was our second chance and we were spurred on by some great support . |
| 29 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 30 | We squeeze back out the pub door onto the cold pavement , and stand reeling , like we were belched up by a drunken giant . |