Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Lymn & Rambush was taken over by the Power-Gas Corporation of Stockton-on-Tees . |
| 2 | The deceptively demure Meredith was led outside by the masked Lucenzo . |
| 3 | Gorbachev was sworn in by the Congress immediately after the result of the vote was announced . |
| 4 | Ari was taken aback by the vehemence of his last remark . |
| 5 | Hennessy was waiting outside by the railings . |
| 6 | ‘ Both countries are really poverty stricken but Ken was knocked out by the generosity of the Nepalese people . |
| 7 | Loch Ness was formed originally by the shifting tectonic plates that created the Great Glen fault line , and it was scoured smooth by glaciation . |
| 8 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 9 | The BMW was held up by the set of traffic lights just before Brewer Street . |
| 10 | The Inter-governmental Bureau of Informatics was set up by the United Nations . |
| 11 | An elegant way to avoid these paradoxes that had so troubled Einstein was put forward by the American physicist Richard Feynman . |
| 12 | Mr Piggott was standing morosely by the kettle waiting for it to boil . |
| 13 | A SCOTLAND-WIDE effort to provide aid to the starving in the famine-stricken countries of Africa was begun yesterday by the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund , writes Gary Duncan . |
| 14 | Store manager Richard Northover was dumped there by the two masked raiders who 'd kidnapped him as he locked up the Woolworths store . |
| 15 | I was talking to a man with a stammer who was training to be an estate agent when Gillian was brought across by the organiser . |
| 16 | Once more Daisy was knocked out by the fecundity of everything , the blackthorn purple with sloes , plump hazel nuts already shredded by squirrels , elderberries shiny as caviar hanging like shower fittings from their crimson stems . |
| 17 | The eventual destruction of Jerusalem was brought about by the Romans to crush the rebellion of Bar Kokhba who was styled by the Akiba , the most famous rabbi of the time , as the Messiah . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ Twynham interrupted with a grin , ‘ Lady Francesca was schooled there by the nuns . |
| 19 | Sara was visited again by the police . |
| 20 | Father McCormack was standing silently by the yawning hole . |
| 21 | Three times Cooke was pitched out by the pounding surf . |
| 22 | DAVE BEASANT 'S move on loan to Portsmouth was blocked yesterday by the Football League . |
| 23 | The shag population of the Shetlands was hit hard by the Braer oil disaster in January [ see EDs 67 et seq ] ; numbers around Sumburgh Head fell by half , but the shags still raised a large number of chicks . |
| 24 | Uncle Albert was squatting down by the flower bed doing a spot of weeding . |
| 25 | IF STEVE WYATT was taken aback by the Duchess of York 's first phone call , he must have been even more surprised by her message . |
| 26 | The swiftly reacting keeper bravely threw himself at McCarthy 's feet after Mitch Cook was brushed aside by the forward , and caused a measure of concern as he hobbled around after lengthy treatment . |
| 27 | His life in Cripps was dominated more by the companionship of the SCR rather than the JCR and although he recognised the stimulations of a more sophisticated company , he often confessed a certain hankering for the family life of a small hall . |
| 28 | No , Minter was motivated more by the unreasoning malice which individual achievement seemed often to inspire in others . |
| 29 | A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri . |
| 30 | A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri . |