Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel 1 am transported into paradise where I am taken by the hand by Kabir the Weaver and led into the enchanted gardens where Li Po and Kalidas and Rumi sing forever . |
| 2 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 3 | After the Dorrits come into their fortune Mr Plornish is found ‘ a small share in a small builder 's business ’ , and Mrs Plornish is established ‘ in the small grocery and general trade in a snug little shop at the crack end of the Yard ’ , where she is joined by her poor father , Old Nandy , to whom she is devoted , and assisted by Maggy . |
| 4 | It was Paddy who , on a June day in 1985 , dropped Sarah at Windsor Castle 's private entrance where she was met by a footman and taken to her room by one of the Queen 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 5 | The Queen flew into RAF Aldergrove in County Antrim , where she was met by Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew , Army GoC Lt General Roger Wheeler and the RUC Deputy Chief Constable Blair Wallace . |
| 6 | In 1977 she elected to go to a nursing home in Regent 's Park where she was treated by Dr Maurice Lipsedge , a psychiatrist who , by pure coincidence , cared for Diana a decade later when she resolved to fight her bulimia . |
| 7 | She was pushed into a big office where she was faced by a rather handsome Obersturmfuhrer . |
| 8 | The book emerged on Monday , on Wednesday was broadcast as a play , on Thursday Daniel George ( Dan , Dan , the literary man , John calls him ) spoke on the wireless and said she was the greatest writer of her day , and on Sunday morning the book was discussed by a querulous little bunch called ‘ The Critics ’ , who seem to be part of the Establishment , and on Sunday afternoon , lo and behold , the television ( commercial ) went into Braemar Mansions itself , where she was interviewed by Alan Pryce-Jones [ then Editor of The Times Literary Supplement ] … . |
| 9 | Now , laboriously rescued by Thessy 's father , a fisherman , Masquerade was standing in the sandy backyard of Thessy 's house where she was cradled by timber props among the casuarinas and palm trees , and where chickens roosted in her cockpit . |
| 10 | I learned afterwards that Mrs McLaren was in the habit of getting up and going to bed so early that night was confused with day ; and having an idea that she must get a message to the man who did her garden , she had gone out before it was light , lost her way , and fallen into the brook , where she was found by a man walking to work . |
| 11 | Where she was attacked by a male er who who pushed her down to the ground , and raped her , and then made off . |
| 12 | The book department , looked after by Mrs Lynn Bolland , is in a capacious basement where you are greeted by a sign above the Glasgow books and maps proclaiming , ‘ YOU 'D BE LOST WITHOUT SMITHS ’ . |
| 13 | But British Railways ( in the pre-Beeching era ) used to put on Ramblers ' Specials , stopping at such places as Kirkby Lonsdale and Sedbergh , where you were met by guides and conducted on a kind of forced march through the fells . |
| 14 | Where we are commissioned by outside bodies to produce reports on the environment , we should seek to ensure that the copyright rests with us ( Para 25 ) . |
| 15 | Shopkeepers beckoned us into their premises where we were tempted by sparkling silver jewellery and traditional greek hand woven mats . |
| 16 | His ashes were placed in the cloisters at New College , Oxford , where they are commemorated by a plaque recording him as ‘ Humanist & Boswellian Scholar ’ . |
| 17 | Tufted carpets are made by stitching tufts of fibre into a woven backing , where they are secured by adhesive . |
| 18 | In some yellow meadow ant colonies there are two sizes or worker : the smaller ones specialise in larval care and stay in the nest , where they are fed by the larger workers , which presumably do the foraging . |
| 19 | The fully robed civic dignitaries walk in procession , led by the sergeant-at-mace , from the town hall in the market square to the cathedral , where they are met by the dean . |
| 20 | The essence of diffusionism is that where you find the same or similar techniques you propose the existence of some form of cultural connection or ‘ borrowing ’ , especially when , in the case of material objects , the similarities do not stem automatically from the raw materials used , and where they are reinforced by large numbers of parallel instances . |
| 21 | His first plan of revenge fails but he follows them to ancient Egypt , where they are joined by the Daleks and Mavic Chen , who know their Core was a fake . |
| 22 | General Instrument will integrate the system into its next generation of addressable cable television converters , enabling users to use their televisions to gain access to on-demand movies , interactive home shopping and similar services — where they are provided by the cable operator . |
| 23 | Like mosses and lichens , the vascular plants adopt low profiles , colonizing sheltered sites away from prevailing winds , where they are protected by snow in winter . |
| 24 | Handbells , although very common in the United States , are to be found in few churches in this country , except where they are used by bellringers in connection with change-ringing . |
| 25 | And so began one of the most successful record production partnerships of the decade — the glitzy music biz rewards of which are an impressive collection of gold discs , hanging along the stairwell at Street Mansions and continuing up into the studio , where they are accompanied by a blown-up print of The Beatles hard at work in the studio on the ‘ Let It Be ’ sessions . |
| 26 | chiefly down the Rhinns. with a major Neolithic occupation site at Bolsay on the slope of Beinn Tart a Mhill and also amongst the sand dunes at Sanaig and Sanaigmore where they are accompanied by large quantities of heat shattered stones , often called pot boilers , from primitive fires . |
| 27 | Ostensibly , the relation between man and wife , where they are linked by love , and that between Master and Slave , are very different . |
| 28 | In addition , there are attributed to lenders voting rights on shares charged to them ( except where they are controlled by the chargor ) . |
| 29 | Donaldson 's Hospital School for the Deaf was evacuated to Cockburnspath and North Berwick ; the nursery department of the Royal Schools for the Deaf , Manchester , was evacuated to Middlewich in Cheshire ; the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf to St. Alban , Glamorgan , temporarily before relocating at Banstead , Surrey , where they were joined by Anerley School for the Deaf who had originally evacuated to the Royal Cross School , Preston thence to the Royal West of England School at Exeter , hurriedly evacuating the latter following the Baedeker Raids on Exeter in 1942 . |
| 30 | 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 . |