Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [pron] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 2 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 3 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 4 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 5 | Nigel Cramer was phrasing it by the book . |
| 6 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |