Example sentences of "[vb past] be by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robyn remembered being by the fountain , all those weeks ago ; he had used the very same expression then . |
| 2 | The burden of Russia 's social backwardness could not be thrown off as quickly as the threat of political counterrevolution had been by the end of the Civil War . |
| 3 | ‘ Unless you 're in Henley , ’ she observed with privileged acerbity and he laughed , embarrassed as every policeman had been by the revelations just made of Thames Valley 's modus operandi . |
| 4 | He was as shocked here as he had been by the scenes he had witnessed in London 's East End . |
| 5 | The United States ' amicus brief tried , unconvincingly , to demonstrate that both these forms of procedure should be regarded , and had been by the drafters of the Convention , as forms of ‘ service abroad ’ . |
| 6 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |
| 7 | He was suddenly moved by her physically , as he had been by the sight of her in the film . |
| 8 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 9 | Theda had hardly heard her , overwhelmed as she had been by the thoughtfulness of the unknown gentleman . |
| 10 | For some reason she was more stricken by the loss of the letters than she had been by the news of John 's and Angela 's deaths . |
| 11 | Although the sterling crisis which followed the budget of 11 November 1964 alerted more ministers to the economic realities , Labour 's tiny majority and the need to go to the country again as soon as possible meant that all too often electoral considerations were given priority ( as they had been by the Tories earlier in 1964 ) over economic policy . |
| 12 | The proceedings were watched by Michael Crook , principal Adult Education Organiser for Norfolk , along with other AE officers , Peter Softly of Norwich Sports Council , mentioned particularly how impressed he had been by the day . |