Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv prt] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was here in 1911 , for instance , that the ruthless , reforming Russian First Minister Peter Stolypin was gunned down by a Jewish police agent in full view of the Tsar , at a gala opera night . |
| 2 | John Fillon-Payoux was knocked down by a car . |
| 3 | MacArthur was spurred on by a strong sense of destiny and ambition . |
| 4 | Mr Mitterrand was put out by a whole series of German slights , culminating in the chancellor 's hesitations over Economic and Monetary Union before the European Community 's summit in December . |
| 5 | Henry Lees deserted his family and Florence was brought up by a half-brother , an Oxford don , who sent her to school in London . |
| 6 | Herta Stanton was taken in by a naval widow : |
| 7 | Their own staff had become acutely discontented — they were understaffed and overworked , and after the hype was all over Oxford DHSS was closed down by a strike lasting two months against understaffing . |
| 8 | The horseman was , in fact , one of Miles ' Cheyenne scouts , and Looking Glass was cut down by a sharpshooter 's bullet ; the only warrior to die after the opening battle . |
| 9 | Hendrie was brought down by a clumsy Kevin Jobling challenge just inside the area . |
| 10 | ‘ His house in Birmingham was burned down by a mob ’ . |
| 11 | Cremonese dominated the first half and were unlucky not to get a penalty when winger Massika Lombardini was brought down by a joint tackle from Osman and Gerry Harrison . |
| 12 | Trainer Geoff Lewis was caught out by a special 48-hour deadline introduced this year so that a consolation race , the Spring Handicap for horses who miss the Lincoln cut , could be staged at Doncaster today . |
| 13 | Tough boss John McMichael was blown up by a car bomb outside his home in 1987 . |
| 14 | There was a mix-up over payment for a meal at a café , and Chapman was hauled off by a gendarme to the police station . |
| 15 | 4 years ago , Jeremy De Bage was knocked down by a motorcyclist . |
| 16 | ROCK heart-throb Michael Hutchence was knocked down by a taxi as he left a Dutch nightclub . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 19 | Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home . |
| 20 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | RT-PCR was carried out by a modified Wang method ( 2 ) measuring optical density using a Sun Spark Station ( Visage software , Millipore , US ) ( data not shown ) . |
| 23 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 24 | Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide . |