Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] were [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 2 | Somewhere past Pontino , the last village she remembers seeing , they were told to turn into a narrow lane where they were met by a small truck . |
| 3 | The official thanksgiving , held on 7 September , saw an elaborate civic ritual in London , with the Queen , the Court , and the great officers of state processing through the streets from St James to Temple Bar in great pomp and splendour , where they were met by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen who then escorted the royal cavalcade to St Paul 's . |
| 4 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 5 | The books fell to the basement boiler room , where they were recovered by the thief . |
| 6 | Once at the Prince Albert Street police station , Amaranth and her escort were taken to a small , comfortably furnished room where they were interviewed by a woman detective . |
| 7 | The Tridentine reforms were in practice essentially an Italian , even a Roman affair , except where they were enforced by the Jesuits , the ‘ soldiers of the Counter-Reformation ’ . |
| 8 | From reception we could see girls walking around , although we were told by a very heavy officer that we were not to get any ideas that we could walk around freely . |
| 9 | The same holds true about the plasma concentrations which , although they were determined by a new ELISA , were within the same range ( 70–350 ng/mL ) in responsive patients from Cameroon and the Congo as in non-responsive patients from the Congo . |
| 10 | The Sheldons do agree that there has been a loss of community values within society at large , although they were heartened by the support of the local community in Balerno after Paul 's death . |
| 11 | Be careful : if you were asked by the council to comment on the original application , it may only inform you of these new drawings if you specifically ask . |
| 12 | Is the paralysis the same sort of paralysis you might get if you were bitten by a snake , for example ? |
| 13 | If we were bound by the decision in Handscomb , I would see force in the argument that this principle should apply equally to mandatory life sentences . |
| 14 | Purchase could be made if they were licensed by the US Treasury 's Office of Foreign Treasury Control . |
| 15 | In the case of a preference , it makes payments made within the six months preceding the bankruptcy recoverable if they were made by the debtor under the influence of a desire to better the creditor ( see Re Ledingham-Smith [ 1992 ] Vol 5 Insolvency Intelligence 65 ) . |
| 16 | Erm , they were not interviewed , they if they were accepted by a teacher training college they received erm a maximum of , of fifty pounds a year but erm as far as I can remember there was no loan erm element in that but I m I may be wrong because er but I never can remember erm writing to recover loans from the training college student . |
| 17 | What is clear is that a business can not claim that its terms were accepted by a trading partner if they were accepted by an employee whom it knows has no authority to accept them . |
| 18 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 19 | The Council not only considered proposals for degrees and other awards , it gave assistance and advice in the early stages of the formulation of courses , and in amending them if they were rejected by the Council . |
| 20 | Drawing a line from the Bishops Cannings church co-ordinates to each of the salient points of the line and comparing the angles of each of them will tell us if they were linked by a straight line of not . |
| 21 | Cooks did , however , nod to convention and only admitted single women to the tour if they were accompanied by a relative or friend . |
| 22 | In addition , some were convinced that family allowances would result in lower wages , although the danger of that happening was thought to be considerably less if they were financed by the state and not by employers ' contributions . |
| 23 | And how can deposit requirements be administratively impossible if they were used by the Bank of Italy in the 1970s and by the Bank of Spain just last year ? |
| 24 | Obviously investment trusts ' management expenses need to be paid and corporation tax paid , again reducing the value of the shares relative to the underlying assets if they were held by the investor . |
| 25 | All three hung in the air , moving and looping , until they were joined by a fourth : white , green , red , blue . |
| 26 | He knew that he had been the only really close friend and confidant of Modigliani from 1907 to 1914 , until they were separated by the war . |
| 27 | And until they were separated by the war , he followed his friend 's artistic production step by step with the intention of saving an exceptional body of masterpieces . |
| 28 | The windows of the Iranian embassy in Washington were forever hung with pots of caviar and magnums of Don Perignon and the whole town was at this feet — until they were swept by the revolution from under him . |
| 29 | These two Forest Justiceships continued in being until they were abolished by an Act of 1817 . |
| 30 | Lime lights were also used for magic lantern shows until they were superseded by the carbon arc . |