Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was badly let down by a married man — Irish , I think . ’ |
| 2 | Their brand of blues-tinged metal was eagerly lapped up by a capacity Stadium crowd for the Crowes ’ second Irish performance . |
| 3 | Generosity , however , was not an emotion that could be found in many Palestinian hearts in Lebanon , and the hatred that burned in 1948 was eagerly taken up by a new generation . |
| 4 | Happily , the stories live on , such as the visiting sportsman who , when boasting about his prowess with the gun , was easily put down by a local crofter : ‘ Man , that is nothing . |
| 5 | A Prieto premiership was nevertheless ruled out by a Socialist leadership within which Largo Caballero and the ‘ bolshevizers ’ were dominant . |
| 6 | The merger ‘ scramble ’ of l959–61 was largely sparked off by a bid by well-known takeover specialist Charles Clore for Watney Mann . |
| 7 | Daily operation was usually carried out by a miller who , like a number of other employees , was actually paid a salary and granted a number of other privileges . |
| 8 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 9 | They should be reminded that the major investors coming into Ogwr borough , and Bridgend in particular , were Ford of Bridgend , which was brought in under Jim Callaghan 's Labour Government , and the Japanese company , Sony , which was also brought in by a Labour Government . |
| 10 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 11 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 12 | About a month ago he was severely beaten up by a gang of white boys on the way back from school . |
| 13 | Vice-President Itamar Franco , who had been acting President since Collor 's suspension in September , was immediately sworn in by a joint session of the Congress as President for the remaining two years of the five-year presidential term . |
| 14 | This was immediately whipped off by a waiting attendant who then passed it along a table for it to be boxed up and returned to me in the ante room . |
| 15 | Between 1873 and 1878 , for example , the hesitant growth of American trade unionism was dramatically set back by a 5-year economic depression . |
| 16 | However it was then pointed out by a biologist that tiny movements by the plant could explain these variations . |
| 17 | The order was then carried out by a seaman , and an seven survivors were killed . |
| 18 | He was then taken in by a Lutheran pastor in Lobetal north of Berlin but moved to a government guest house in late March because of local opposition to his presence . |
| 19 | There are no new names in the team … for the opening game … leading the pack is John Hawker who 's career was almost killed off by a serious neck injury |
| 20 | A woman ran from one of the houses on the northern bank and was almost knocked down by a clattering troop of Dragoons . |
| 21 | William Plumpton , cultivating Gloucester and his retainer John Pilkington in the hope of bringing pressure to bear on Northumberland over a Knaresborough office , was firmly warned off by a more sophisticated associate . |
| 22 | William Plumpton , cultivating Gloucester and his retainer John Pilkington in the hope of bringing pressure to bear on Northumberland over a Knaresborough office , was firmly warned off by a more sophisticated associate . |