Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles was clearly fascinated by Mr Mercer 's story of how he was shot twice by the Chinese and held prisoner for two years . |
| 2 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 3 | He was turned down by the " Goldsmith Libel Fund " , an eccentric exercise in philanthropy which bankrolls plaintiffs of conservative persuasion ( notably Tory MPs ) who bring libel actions against media organisations perceived as left-wing ( eg the BBC ) . |
| 4 | He was treated pre-operatively by the physiotherapist who taught him deep breathing exercises . |
| 5 | He was heartened too by the French sky , clean and limpid after the smoke and fog of the Borinage . |
| 6 | He had managed to reconnoitre the area between the South Foreland and Beachy Head and to study the roads between there and London when he was given away by the careless talk , prompted by malice , of the ambassador 's homosexual secretary , a subsequently notorious transvestite , the Chevalier d'Éon , who later lived as a woman . |
| 7 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 8 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 9 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 10 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 11 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 12 | He was led upstairs by the spotty boy to a sanctum , dusty as the remembered law-office had been . |
| 13 | Instead he was led astray by the recollection of past triumphs . |
| 14 | Round in 67 , he was irritated only by the fact that he had left it too late to play a postal part in the election . |
| 15 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 16 | Again and again he was saved only by the uncanny accuracy of his shooting . |
| 17 | Erm like erm for example I knew somebody who was educated at Rugby and during his time there he was abused enormously by the other kids . |
| 18 | Trainer Gilpin echoed that view when claiming after the race that Dillon had disobeyed his instructions — ‘ No doubt he was carried away by the excitement . ’ |
| 19 | Like many of his contemporaries he was bowled over by the charismatic personality of Eleutherios Venizelos , the Greek politician . |
| 20 | The next morning he was roused early by the clanging of the priory bells . |
| 21 | He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) . |
| 22 | Arion , son of Poseidon and master of the lyre , was sailing to Corinth when he was put overboard by the captain , who coveted his wealth . |
| 23 | He was attracted too by the reasoning of Nicholas of Cusa , who had imagined a universe with no center and in which space was homogeneous . |
| 24 | When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad . |
| 25 | Thakin Thein Pe made his way out to India where he received scant encouragement until he was taken up by the cloak-and-dagger organisation , Force 136 , which was desperately trying to justify its mysterious and expensive existence . |
| 26 | Until he was taken up by the Princesse Mathilde . |
| 27 | At the start of the Second World War , when he was just 15 , he was taken away by the German army . |
| 28 | Then , half an hour later , he was taken away by the police for the way in which , in his bid to make amends , he had gone through a red light . |
| 29 | Shabby , he 'd thought , and plain , so that he was taken aback by the neatly-rounded woman who answered his knock , a most presentable person in a dark , well-cut woollen dress with what looked like a gold brooch at the neck , her smooth oval face miraculously ironed of the creases he remembered , her mouth smiling the serene welcome of a woman who has no reason to expect trouble from a knock at her door , a woman who eats well and sleeps well and can settle all her bills . |
| 30 | Yesterday the MP said he was taken aback by the abrupt nature of the request . |