Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I been beaten up by hoods , framed on a murder rap , beaten up by cops , sent up the river , beaten up by prison bulls , got a last-minute reprieve from the governor , and been beaten up by my girl . ’ |
| 2 | Or is it because I am worn out by passivity , by having to accept and bear and endure , and because I am quite clever and resourceful , I have just turned , like the proverbial worm ? |
| 3 | While I am tucked up by my warm fire being waited on hand and foot , you will be out in your cars touring the streets with nowhere to go , wishing in vain for a lovely girl to console you and end your loneliness . |
| 4 | So I seek the authority of Jesus ; and I am led on by him to see the authority of the Bible . |
| 5 | I am bowled over by my first day at school ; there are scores of us sitting at long bench desks in a vast wooden hut . |
| 6 | ‘ Saturday morning I am woken up by my children , Jack , three , and Molly , two , they are quite energetic so that stops any chance of a lie in when they start jumping up and down on my bed . |
| 7 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 8 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 9 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 10 | I 'm called back by a member of the Guardia Nacional . |
| 11 | I 'm bowled over by the logic and impressed with the religious zeal . ’ |
| 12 | I certainly look at television and adverts and I 'm taken in by it |
| 13 | Eventually Frankie and I were called in by Mum and told to get a wash and change as it was nearly time to go . |
| 14 | In Tblisi , Stalin 's birthplace , my wife and I were shown around by enthusiastic Georgians from the Technological Institute . |
| 15 | Thursday , 18th : After the day 's programme , I was invited out by , a local participant , to visit another garden of the Moghul era , where we saw a son-et-lumière celebration of the 250th anniversary of the founding of Jaipur by the Maharajah Jai Singh . |
| 16 | I woke to manoeuvre a rock under the groundsheet , then to put cream on my burning ears , later to pull my knees up to my chin to get warm , then to eat some dates , and finally when I was called out by diarrhoea . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I was kicked out by my landlord and put in this hostel which was just awful and I had to get away so I came here — I do n't know why , really , I … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | On the Saturday I was seen off by Ada , the Shelleys going away on the Friday night . |
| 24 | I was cheered up by Barbara Amiel 's suggestion ( in the ‘ Sunday Times ’ ) that the winners should have a good gloat . |
| 25 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 26 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 27 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was kept in by force . |
| 29 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |