Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did they ever mention to you or your father that they in fact got caught out by the weather ? |
| 2 | probably , a bar with nuts and raisins called raisin natural bar I 'm sorry about loo loosing the keys mum , mum tt the noise has gone the noise has come back by the way |
| 3 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 4 | He suggests that this has come about by the make-up of the international selectors , two of them coming from Belfast , two from Dublin and only one from the North-West and Munster . |
| 5 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 6 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 7 | They would not cruelly ridicule the child but I think she would feel left out by the time the girls were ‘ settling in ’ , as she would not fit in ; girls have more subtle yet often more hurtful ways of rejecting one another and this would be felt by the outsider before long . |
| 8 | I got told off by the ref — I was a bit wild then — and Ian began moaning as though he was crying . |
| 9 | Waldron Buffaloes had played a marathon the night before , finally got squeezed out by the L.A. boys . |
| 10 | Got hosed out by the council this morning . |
| 11 | Back in November , Mr Bush got a rude shock when his ‘ Energy Strategy ’ ( which amounted to little more than building a few more nuclear reactors and opening up every remaining square inch of Alaska to further oil exploration ) got kicked out by the Senate . |
| 12 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 13 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 14 | ‘ On the continent , if managers do that they get kicked out by the players . ’ |
| 15 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |
| 16 | Who are you , you 're not the Queen ’ , and I used to sit down , get pulled up by the girls : ‘ Come on . ’ |
| 17 | You simply get taken along by the system , people crowding around you , the press anxious for interviews . |
| 18 | There 's no point in demonstrating if you do n't get any national press , TV or radio … or nobody listens to you or you get beaten up by the Police … ’ |
| 19 | No , I think she was getting chatted up by the bloke who owned the place , really ! |
| 20 | Sometimes it gets blown along by the wind . |
| 21 | OK , so you 'd probably end up getting gunned down by the SAS or something , but that 's got to be a better end for a bunch of real rock terrorists than ending up as a Levi 's advert . |
| 22 | On average , a sixteen-year-old recruit to farming will have moved on by the age of twenty-three — ; usually to the building and construction or road haulage industries . |
| 23 | Er that does n't , I mean do n't take it about six o'clock , seven o'clock at night you could have , that could have worn off by the time the |
| 24 | Strenuous laybacking for 40 feet or so brings better holds , allowing exhilaratingly steep bridging , and the whole rope will have run out by the time you pull onto the platform at the top , all too soon for the fit , but thankfully for the tired or those leading at their limit , as I was on this occasion . |
| 25 | The boaters , 4 adults and 4 children were sailing on the River Severn , when they got swept up by the Severn bore . |
| 26 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 27 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers . |
| 28 | In the past the industry has frequently appeared bogged down by the use of a range of technical terms that mean little to potential customers |
| 29 | Roland felt buoyed up by the height of Maud 's great divan . |
| 30 | When he came back Breeze was sitting curled up by the fire in the quaint but attractive parlour , her eyes fixed thoughtfully on the dancing flames . |