Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 2 | And that was plucked out by its roots , and two rows were set up on the green ; boys and girls were in each row . |
| 3 | Then Robbie Earle saw his spectacular bicycle kick hit the bar , and Terry Gibson 's free kick was palmed over by Southall . |
| 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 | The briefest pipérade recipe is the one recorded in Having Crossed the Channel as it was blurted out by a tipsy smuggler one morning in a Basque inn on the Bidassoa . |
| 6 | A large handwritten notice was propped up by the door — Bürge bleibt hier ( guarantors ' seats here ) — with an arrow pointing that way . |
| 7 | Sterling — now the EC 's weakest currency following devaluation of the Italian lira — was propped up by the Bank of England , dashing hopes of an early interest rate cut in Britain . |
| 8 | Elinor , in a cream silk bedjacket , was propped up by a stack of frilly pillows ; she looked old and frail . |
| 9 | Government spending was to go up by 6 per cent , necessitating an exchequer borrowing requirement of 2.4 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , which was forecast to grow by 2 per cent . |
| 10 | ‘ Later they told me my body just went up in the air and I was hanging on by one hand . ’ |
| 11 | As the front curtain rose , the entire stage was blacked out by drapes which also concealed twelve doors at regular intervals . |
| 12 | Her initial action on reaching her room , however , was to sit down by the telephone and to try and concentrate her attention on what she should do now . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | There are rumours that the mill was used as recently as 1923 , although no records confirm this , and the mill race was filled in by 1958 . |
| 15 | This involved a Parent Chat Sheet , part of which was filled in by the parent or written by a member of staff for the parent during the chat . |
| 16 | He was flown out by helicopter and airlifted back to England for hospital treatment . |
| 17 | At a ceremony attended by the appeal 's President , film and theatre star Anthony Hopkins , who was flown in by helicopter courtesy of British Gas ( Wales ) , an inscribed half-ton riven slate gatepost was put in place in the beautiful Nant Ffrancon pass , creating both a symbolic and practical ‘ gateway ’ to National Trust lands in Snowdonia . |
| 18 | UNITA was now reinforcing its northern front , centred on the town of Beu in Uige province some 50 km from the border with Zaïre , its supplies augmented by the US military equipment which was flown in by Hercules transport aircraft via Zaïre . |
| 19 | I was cheered up by Barbara Amiel 's suggestion ( in the ‘ Sunday Times ’ ) that the winners should have a good gloat . |
| 20 | Alcock was cheered up by a letter from his CO at Mudros telling him the ‘ Your baby has just been given a new suit of clothes and is learning to walk . |
| 21 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 22 | He was cheered along by proud parents and his then girlfriend , Rosanne . |
| 23 | An acid house party attended by children as young as 12 was broken up by police yesterday . |
| 24 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 25 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 26 | The concourse was large , but uninspiring , particularly as the floor area was broken up by stairways down to the tracks . |
| 27 | The trouble was broken up by bouncers . |
| 28 | A demonstration led by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Diodoros I on April 12 was broken up by Israeli police using tear gas ; demonstrations continued on a daily basis . |
| 29 | The meeting on Jan. 8 , 1990 , was attended by 10,000-15,000 people and was broken up by the police , one person being arrested . |
| 30 | On May 28 four people were killed when a demonstration in Freetown by students in support of teachers ' demands was broken up by police after a police station had been stoned ; earlier a meeting attempting to establish an independent teachers ' union was also broken up by the authorities . |