Example sentences of "i 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 . |