Example sentences of "i [verb] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In soft-back format with 150 pages , the new , revised edition of See What I Mean is co-authored by John Morgan and Peter Welton , who is well-known to readers of The Artist as a holiday course tutor and regular contributor . |
| 2 | They have to erm , first of all ask er R S P C A funding it , which is very much against anyway because I , I hate being humiliated by the this way . |
| 3 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 4 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 6 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 8 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 9 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 10 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |
| 11 | On the other hand , I 'd been pulled by the cops for reasons not yet clear but had something to do with enigmatic Jo Scamp and her gaff in Sedgeley House . |
| 12 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 13 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 14 | My knowledge of this period of history is rather hazy so I am not going to make an issue of it either way , for the simple reason which I suspect is shared by many of you , that I do n't care . |
| 15 | But Lawson then covers his back : ‘ For a time I was concerned that I might have made the wrong choice as Chief Secretary — a view I suspect was shared by John Major himself . ’ |
| 16 | One of the best stories I recall was related by Norman Willis , the general secretary of the TUC , who once had the enlightening experience of watching a leaflet he had just delivered catch fire . |
| 17 | As his book is mainly about the south , perhaps it had died out in Andalusia , though even there I remember being startled by its male authority as I walked past a café in Seville . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 19 | If you drive from er I remember being stopped by one of those men in the dark glasses erm if you drive from Maine into New Hampshire the speed limit in Maine is sixty five and the speed limit in New Hampshire is fifty five and you just cross a si er y there 's a signpost which says welcome to Maine or New Hampshire , whichever way you 're going , and the second you cross that line , theoretically , you have adjust to the different speed limit . |
| 20 | Less easy to identify were personality traits which I believe are carried by Briant Bodies Gamma and Delta . |
| 21 | The very first RAF uniform I saw was worn by FIt Lt Wedgwood Benn DSO , DFC — father of Anthony Wedgwood Benn — MP who was the Member of Parliament for Leith when he visited my school . |
| 22 | The electric outboard I use is made by Shakespeare . |
| 23 | The soap I use is shared by the whole family , so my wife makes sure that it 's that pure white , unperfumed stuff for sensitive skin . |
| 24 | Which is I think is implied by his suggestion that a settlement there would intercept some of the housing demand . |
| 25 | I 'm delighted it it 's a Conservative erm er resol er erm amendment that I think is agreed by all the council . |
| 26 | If I could just respond to erm one point which I think was made by Mr who referred to the erm the York trading er Clifton Road Trading estates . |
| 27 | As I said , what I did was dictated by necessity . |
| 28 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 29 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 30 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |