Example sentences of "[verb] by a [noun] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Mercedes-Benz could charge £50,800 for a car that is comprehensively outperformed by a Vauxhall Calibra 2.0i 16v , costing £33,550 less , and still call it a sports car . |
| 2 | So a revolution in music was catalysed by a record executive 's desire for his own personal sexual soundtrack . |
| 3 | Bending to pick it up , Constance saw her father 's face framed by a farm worker 's legs . |
| 4 | Challenge worked her way through an area strewn with salmon cages and creels and with some difficulty found her way through into the lee of the island , which was now illuminated by a coastguard auxiliary 's searchlight . |
| 5 | BUILDING contractor John Scott is being sued by a plumbing firm 's boss for the crash of her company . |
| 6 | The Model A was a two-seater side-by-side biplane , powered by a 118hp Kinner K-5 five-cylinder radial engine . |
| 7 | The child was represented by a guardian ad litem and her mother was also a party . |
| 8 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 9 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |