Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 2 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 3 | I 'm bowled over by the logic and impressed with the religious zeal . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 11 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 12 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 13 | ‘ I was coming back by the path from the ferry , through the woodland , and where the trees are thickest I stumbled over him . |
| 14 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Once you are wrapped around by the cirque you realize that it is not beautiful but what in the eighteenth century they knew as ‘ sublime ’ . |
| 17 | As you turn the corner towards the church of St Mary , which was enthusiastically restored in the picturesque style during the nineteenth century , you are bowled over by the beauty of this grandest of farms . |
| 18 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 19 | BELVILLE : You must be as flexible as the reed in the fable lest by resisting the tempest like the oak you be torn up by the roots . |
| 20 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 21 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 22 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 23 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 24 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 25 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 26 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 27 | She was bowled over by the beauty of a girl named Jane March who walked into the Storm agency . |
| 28 | She was sitting down by the gate , one hand on her neck , her head canted over at a fierce angle . |
| 29 | That is , when you ask erm er who are we , is any part of what we are made up by the body , the answer 's quite straightforwardly no , we er already identified use the body , this other thing . |
| 30 | " We 're going back by the beach , " Kate said . |