Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Herriot , now 67 , convener of shop stewards at Walkerburn when the mill crashed , said : ‘ Everyone has been sickened by the way the system has treated us . |
| 2 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 3 | They have to erm , first of all ask er R S P C A funding it , which is very much against anyway because I , I hate being humiliated by the this way . |
| 4 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 6 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 7 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 8 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |
| 9 | On the other hand , I 'd been pulled by the cops for reasons not yet clear but had something to do with enigmatic Jo Scamp and her gaff in Sedgeley House . |
| 10 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 11 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 12 | The soap I use is shared by the whole family , so my wife makes sure that it 's that pure white , unperfumed stuff for sensitive skin . |
| 13 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 14 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 15 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 16 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 17 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 18 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 19 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 20 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 21 | ‘ He said I had been pardoned by the president . ’ |
| 22 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 23 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 24 | But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press . |
| 25 | I had been hurt by the crude insults , deliberate distortions and sheer venom that had been directed at us . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC . |
| 27 | I 've been asked by a market research to do I 've got a tape on it 's for , dictionaries . |
| 28 | I 've been asked by an inflight magazine , of all things , for 1,000 words on the state of publishing . |
| 29 | But I 've been asked by the PM to co-operate with a special operative of the CIA . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been asked by the Bishop to find out something about the background of Hereward Marr and his wife , ’ she tried , as an opener . |