Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 2 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 3 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 4 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 7 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 8 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 9 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 10 | ‘ I was coming back by the path from the ferry , through the woodland , and where the trees are thickest I stumbled over him . |
| 11 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 12 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |
| 13 | Well of course we protested and went on the March for Life and Peace , which was turned back by the military . |
| 14 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
| 15 | An alternative explanation is that the figure indicates the existence of an important fertility bull cult at Stamford which was brought over by the Myceneans . |
| 16 | The best known of the earlier endeavours is probably Project Sappho , which was carried out by the Science Policy Review Unit ( SPRU ) based at the University of Sussex . |
| 17 | I remember the amounts because for several years , it was my Saturday job to go to St. Martin 's Church Vestry to collect the money which was paid out by the Parish Clerk , Mr. Daniel Sutton , who before retirement had been Headmaster of the Church School . |
| 18 | However , Marine Harvest , the former Unilever subsidiary which was bought over by the US MariFarms Inc Group last year , has remained in the US market although only a small proportion of its 10,000 tonnes production from Scotland is sent there . |
| 19 | The Christian Faith spells out in detail the kind of overall understanding of Christian theology which was opened up by the conception of the nature of religion presented in the Addresses . |
| 20 | In the same year in the UK the Review Committee on Education for Information Use , which was set up by the British Library Research and Development Department ( BLR&DD ) in 1974 , was recommending that : |
| 21 | The first meeting takes place this week and I am asked to make a presentation to the Committee which was set up by the minister of finance . ’ |
| 22 | The Working Party on Internal Migration in Britain , which was set up by the Institute of British Geographers in l988 , aims at the better understanding of the patterns , causes and implications of migration in Britain . |
| 23 | The new draft allowed permanent government officials to hold Cabinet posts concurrently ; gave the NLA , which was set up by the military , the power to nominate senators ; and gave senators , along with MPs , the right to screen candidates for the premiership , and to launch no confidence motions against the government . |
| 24 | Staffing allotment will be 654 for England , 225 for Wales , 385 for Scotland and 86 for the joint UK Nature Conservation Committee , which was set up by the Department of Environment to provide a central voice for the NCC . |
| 25 | The question in the second stage , which was ushered in by the work of Baur , was raised by the manifest differences in style and content between the synoptic gospels and the gospel of John . |
| 26 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 27 | Most obviously , its rising trade-union support ensured that it was to become the party of the working class , a process which was speeded up by the split within the Liberal Party during the First World War . |
| 28 | Under the programme , which was drawn up by the EC Commission , Albania was to be given 50,000 tonnes of EC wheat ; further donations amounting to 100,000 tonnes of wheat were to be canvassed from other Western countries . |
| 29 | A PUBLIC inquiry is to investigate Armagh area plan which was drawn up by the DoE . |
| 30 | Sadly , Il Filarete died before completing his masterwork which was taken up by the Milanese Guiniforte Solari . |