Example sentences of "'d by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Palace , 18 , £10.99 ) Rocky V Brain-damaged after beating the Russian drongo Drago and penniless after being K O 'd by a bent accountant , Rocky ( Sylvester Stallone ) has no option : he has to make another film . |
| 2 | And best distinguish 'd by black , brown , or fair |
| 3 | As they pass 'd by , but nothing still they said . |
| 4 | By the mid-1730s the Upholders Company saw fit to make available to their members blank funeral invitation tickets for overprinting , affiliation to the company being shown by an inscription on the plate-mark beneath the illustration , reading ‘ Perform 'd by the Company of Upholders at Exeter Change & at their Hall in Leaden Hall Street . ’ |
| 5 | " This Meeting having taken into Consideration the State of the Island as to Grain & provisions , until the next Crop comes on , are of opinion that with economy , there may be neither in the Island , what is sufficient for the Support of the Inhabitants , but if any Grain or putatoes are exported from the Island , that it may endanger a scarcity … " and they are " to use their utmost exertions for preventing any of the Grain of the Island being destroy 'd by Illegal Distillers … " |
| 6 | 1804 It has now been represented to the Meeting that the Town of Bowmore is very much annoy 'd by a destructive Crowd of Pigs running up and down the Streets , and that many of the Inhabitants , regardless of Property . |
| 7 | The Earl of Nottingham , a Tory who was to make his peace with the Revolution , nevertheless opposed the invitation , condemning it as " high treason , in violation of the Laws … and that allegiance which I ow 'd to the Soveraigne and which I had confirm 'd by my solemn oath " . |
| 8 | As John Tutchin was later to ask , " Did our Fore-Fathers struggle so hard to curb the Ambition of their Kings who Invaded their Birth-Rights " , only for us to be " Oppress 'd by that very Power with which our Ancestors Defended their Liberties ? " |