Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Therefore I was bound by certain of its manners and rules . |
| 3 | My mother found me floating face downwards and I was saved by artificial respiration . |
| 4 | I was surrounded by bright sunlight , yet in total darkness , as foretold . |
| 5 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 6 | ‘ I was getting to the end of the three years when I was approached by Amalgamated Metal . |
| 7 | I was interviewed by Living magazine ( no , the irony did not escape me ) and also by The Independent , which published the feature in a section under the same name ! |
| 8 | ‘ For two years I was crippled by repeated foot injuries , caused simply by the shoes I was wearing . |
| 9 | I was told by released French hostages that he did attempt to escape , that he was beaten very badly , and that basically his spirit at that time was , was , was broken ; he did n't want to talk with the other hostages in the room and he pretty much had withdrawn . |
| 10 | I was told by new-found friends , ‘ I have known your work for years and the typographic version of Duchamp 's Green Box book you made in 1960 was my first route into an understanding of modern art ’ . |
| 11 | It was important that in my visit to Vietnam , for example , I was accompanied by British business men from British Petroleum , Enterprise Oil , Shell , Lasmo , British Gas and Barclays bank . |
| 12 | As far as we 're concerned , you became a new identity the moment you were hit by blue lightning . |
| 13 | You were greeted by senior Iraqi officers who would take you through a maze of corridors to a communications centre where Saddam himself would be sitting and following the progress of the war . |
| 14 | Once she had admitted the hope , she was inundated by whole floods of desire ; the project took life in her mind , the trees grew leaves , the cathedrals grew towers and arches , the river flowed beneath its bridges . |
| 15 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 16 | She took me up to see her room , which she had to herself until she was joined by another-middle aged woman without children . |
| 17 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 18 | In a new chapter of his book Diana : Her True Story , Morton says friends of Diana told him she was destroyed by intense coverage of her taped phone call with James Gilbey . |
| 19 | She was pipped by reluctant newcomer Jane Lester of Basildon Savacentre who was so doubtful of her abilities that she virtually had to be carried up to the oche . |
| 20 | Later , released from the spell of that voice , she was plagued by niggling incredulity . |
| 21 | Undoubtedly , she was hated by countless millions of ordinary Chinese . |
| 22 | Again she was shaken by uncontrollable spasms . |
| 23 | She considered her fear , and with it the probability that before long Johnny would find her again , and she was shaken by unreasoning panic . |
| 24 | It was as if she was bound by silken cords , soft yet irresistibly strong . |
| 25 | It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists . |
| 26 | She was flown by private jet to the Zambian capital Lusaka , following a personal request for her release made by Zambia 's President Kenneth Kaunda to President Saddam Hussein of Iraq . |
| 27 | I 'd coveted Lotta because she was coveted by other men and I had to be the winner . |
| 28 | She had once told Stephanie , whom she trusted , though it did not come easily to her to make confidences to her daughters , that she was possessed by physical loathing of Lucas Simmonds and of what contact — she was not specific — he might have had with her son . |
| 29 | Happily she waved back , realising just how pleased she was to see them again and when , moments later , she climbed into the crowded bus with David behind her she was deafened by welcoming voices . |
| 30 | In 1862 she was appointed by royal warrant ‘ printer and publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty ’ , a personal distinction , and in November the press moved to 83a Farringdon Street , where steam was used . |