Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't see him , but we had a superb seafood meal in a trattoria on a hill and found ourselves adopted by a shaggy island dog , another hazard of Mediterranean voyaging . |
| 2 | THE LAST thing likely to cross the mind of someone woken by a yapping dog in the middle of the night is the question why do dogs bark when wolves rarely do . |
| 3 | A few complex cases are recorded with mixed or joined symbols ( e.g. , those of Nurgle and Tzeentch for someone killed by a disfiguring disease which caused the victim to be burnt as a mutant ) . |
| 4 | I had long intended making this proposition to the Secretary of State , but I was urged sooner to it perhaps because I felt that I was reduced in circumstances and thrown from my position in Society , and I hoped by a grand effort to establish a permanent claim on the consideration of Her Majesty 's Government . |
| 5 | The acquisition of grave-clothes did not need to wait until death , and many a young bride-to-be , especially in the more remote country areas , included such items in their trousseaus , either buying them ready-made from one of the known outlets , or having them made by a local seamstress , or producing them herself . |
| 6 | Courier beat Stefan Edberg in the final , which failed by a large margin to live up to it 's billing . |
| 7 | It was n't going to help Andrew 's plight , endowing himself bewitched by a young gypsy girl he could never have , but Fate was n't always kind when it selected the tricks it was going to play . |
| 8 | In his wanderings through India , Miguel Serrano found himself arrested by a grotesque sight in the streets of Delhi : |
| 9 | Drama , however , is powerfully engendered in The Sacrifice of Isaac where chiaroscuro successfully poses Abraham as a tall and threatening silhouette drawn in pen , brown ink and brown wash , lightened with white in a drawing by Baciccio , a protege of Gianlorenzo Bernini — himself represented by a precise Design for the Tombstone of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio da Carpi . |
| 10 | By the spring Richard found himself faced by a formidable coalition of enemies . |
| 11 | On his way back into the USA , he found himself faced by a stern row of Immigration Officials . |
| 12 | Anna had me baptized by a Catholic priest . |
| 13 | Well it , it depends what you mean by a good day ? |
| 14 | But progress against stubborn German resistance in thickly forested terrain had also been slow ; and when Vlasov arrived to take personal command 2nd Shock Army was itself surrounded by a German counter-attack . |
| 15 | She tiptoed by a well-mown lawn , then a garden jumbled high with broken washing machines , bicycles , empty flowerpots and scraps of wood . |
| 16 | Closeted in the conference palace at Taif — itself built by a Lebanese-born millionaire — the MPs found themselves unable to exercise their normal function of playing to the gallery . |
| 17 | Special effects , including pattern fills and shadows you handled by a separate program which also lets you view and print your fonts . |
| 18 | However , in the FDP ( which was itself troubled by a financial scandal in 1981 ) certain elements believed that government spending must now be cut and taxes lowered . |
| 19 | good , right , now what do you mean by a good life ? |
| 20 | Most battles indeed occurred as a result of sieges when , as at Châteauroux in June 1187 , a besieging army found itself faced by a relieving army . |
| 21 | It could seat twenty passengers on rattan cane seats , who boarded by a short ladder over the sides ! |
| 22 | I bet their gigs are quite fun too although why anyone would want to sit and watch a video of one made by a stoned roadie is anyone 's guess . |
| 23 | The legislation 's loose definition of a ‘ British ’ film , as one made by a British company in a British studio using a certain percentage of British crew , could be applied to a picture made by a British subsidiary of a US major , using an American director , writer and key cast . |
| 24 | Out of print , my local stockist told me — though I sneaked a look at one owned by a venerable AC member on a meet in the Dauphiné . |
| 25 | Once inside , however , they found that the only remotely fascistic stand was one occupied by a pimply youth from the Wagner Society . |
| 26 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 27 | The opening prayer was one prayed by a Muslim woman who lived in Jerusalem around the year AD 800 . |
| 28 | Eruptions on the mid-Atlantic ridge occur sporadically , each major one fed by a distinct magma chamber . |
| 29 | Beyond it , protected by a high stone wall , was a small chapel in the grounds of which were a number of graves , each one marked by a simple marble marker ; some were actually decorated by headstones or crosses . |
| 30 | Amongst the Young Socialists , no talk about Southern Africa , especially one delivered by a Conservative Party official , could fail to be political . |