Example sentences of "[vb past] that [pron] was [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 2 | Trying to get out of the traffic jam , I took a short cut down a back lane but found that it was blocked by a large wedding tent helpfully erected across the full width of the road . |
| 3 | In a move that was mandated by the Office of Telecommunications last summer , British Telecommunications Plc yesterday announced that it was cutting by £40 the cost of a new line for residential customers : from June 1 , it will cost £99 ; a new line for a single line business will also cost £99 , down from £152.75 ; residential customers will also now be able to spread the cost of phone service connection by paying an initial charge of £25 and four quarterly payments of £25 — which sounds like a great deal … |
| 4 | One feminist , Mrs Wolstenholme-Elmy ( who as a young woman determined to follow Mary Wollstonecraft 's example and live with her lover , until on becoming pregnant she took the advice of fellow suffragists and married ) accepted the idea that menstruation was essentially pathological , although she also argued that it was caused by men 's brutality . |
| 5 | There was a time when we naively believed that it was caused by Immune Overload — too many stimulants and not enough rest and nutrition . |
| 6 | The 23-year-old Glaswegian acknowledged that he was beaten by another big server . |
| 7 | The 23-year-old Glaswegian acknowledged that he was beaten by another big server . |
| 8 | A Nairobi lawyer , Martha Njoka , claimed that she was assaulted by a special branch superintendent when she went to a police station to trace Imanyara . |
| 9 | Knowles claimed that he was interviewed by two security officers who asked him to change his story on ‘ patriotic grounds ’ and say the body was Crabb 's . |
| 10 | Joyce himself claimed that he was approached by Edward Barron whose father was proprietor of the Carreras Tobacco Company . |
| 11 | Cleo and Javelot soon discovered that it was occupied by five individuals , who were stowed away in far chambers like ideas in a vast empty brain . |
| 12 | Once I was able to escape from my orange box and ferret around among the other barrows , I quickly discovered that he was reckoned by the locals to be the finest trader in the East End . |
| 13 | The jury heard that he was rumbled by golf-playing customs officer Daryl Hickman . |
| 14 | At first instance the judge , in refusing the injunction , decided that he was bound by the decision in Lyne-Pirkis v Jones and the plaintiff appealed . |
| 15 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 16 | Berle also was not impressed with Swinton , who always pleaded that he was bound by instructions from London : ‘ Swinton is ill-prepared … he also tends to be arrogant and inflexible . ' |
| 17 | When the angel came to the rock he saw that it was covered by a lovely green creeping plant . |
| 18 | God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence . |
| 19 | As Meryl held out the plate of petits-fours laughingly to Lee , she knew that someone was standing by her shoulder . |
| 20 | But Spike knew that he was surrounded by Hunters . |
| 21 | Philip knew that she was irritated by his being there , that she wanted to be on her own . |
| 22 | Mr Major insisted that nobody was sent by the Tory Party to take part in last year 's presidential campaign and that two Central Office staff whose trip was funded by the Republicans had gone in their own time and paid their own personal expenses . |
| 23 | After meetings with President Bush , Secretary of State James Baker and Defence Secretary Richard Cheney , Olszewski said that he was encouraged by assurances of private investments . |
| 24 | Mr Hamilton said that it was accepted by both sides in the case that in law a foetus did not become a person until birth . |
| 25 | They called this double yoked model " the Beau Ideal " and suggested that it was epitomised by the Victorian villa in a garden suburb . |