Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's also ironic , I guess , that as our hired mini-bus travels through Harlem , the Belfast-bred trio should feel so intimidated by the possibility of violence . |
| 2 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 3 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 4 | ‘ I still feel somewhat gobsmacked by the way he appointed me . |
| 5 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
| 6 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 7 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 8 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 9 | No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question . |
| 10 | She bought a few bits and pieces from the post office and was feeling thoroughly deflated by the time she got back to the house . |