Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 2 | Barbara and I were interviewed by one team upstairs in the top bar . |
| 3 | I was invited by two revolutionary movements , the Black Panthers and the Palestinians … . these two groups have a very strong erotic charge . |
| 4 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |
| 5 | I am not exaggerating when I say that I was inspired by all I saw at the adult education centres in Croydon . |
| 6 | ‘ I went to a tavern in Inverkeithing where I was joined by one of the King 's squires . ’ |
| 7 | About two weeks after my first visit to the capital , I was visited by one of the King 's most important officials . |
| 8 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 9 | He has always been aware of his spiritual nature : ‘ When I was seven I was visited by 40 judged — beings of light — who spoke to me about my role here . |
| 10 | I was rewarded by several admiring looks as I paid my sizeable bill and blundered out , sweating , into the fog . |
| 11 | I was cheered by some superficial damage to the station at Cologne . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're looking at the next Sugar Ray , ’ I was assured by one youth before he had even sparred in training ! |
| 13 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I was struck by one of the comments of the primary school headmistress . |
| 15 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |
| 16 | I was heartened by this news though Marianne , who has experienced the unpredictable effects of alcohol on the North African male to her cost , was less amused . |
| 17 | ‘ We have battled well in recent games but I was heartened by some of our football in the midweek win over Grimsby Town . |
| 18 | The first night there I was accosted by three men . |
| 19 | And when I was when I got to New York , I was met by two first cousins from two different families er Bert who 's er er nephew of my my mother 's sister Laura Anne in in New York , and another one , William who 'd been very successful vice president of or something . |
| 20 | I was met by two organizers of the institute , and , who took me by car to Campinas which is not far away . |
| 21 | And I was screaming by this time and Miss goes oh be quiet everybody ! |
| 22 | I was fascinated by all I saw on my way . |
| 23 | No , but I was fascinated by this man because he wanted above all things for us to record the Bartók Music for Strings , Percussion , and Celesta . |
| 24 | I was fascinated by these glossy black and white photographs . |
| 25 | I was examined by three doctors and declared insane . |
| 26 | I WAS disturbed by two items in the Mirror 's study of teenage sex . |
| 27 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 28 | I was saved by most of it . |
| 29 | I hoped the dogs would be in the garden but the moment I stepped inside I was surrounded by five of the massive dogs . |
| 30 | I was surrounded by bright sunlight , yet in total darkness , as foretold . |