Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The SPAR system was developed at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory while I was supported by the British Library and King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 2 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 3 | I did n't buy any masks , but I was tempted by the matching two-foot-high figurines of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya . |
| 4 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 5 | The cast was rather good , featuring Bill Nighy and his floppy blond hair and a very svelte-looking Charlotte Cornwell , though I was irritated by the unsympathetic little-and-large duo at the centre , with Janet McTeer towering above the tubby little Imelda Staunton ( as I recall , the heroine of the book hunted alone ) . |
| 6 | When I was hit by a drunk driver in 1980 , crossing the road in Los Angeles . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ My insurance company will never believe I was hit by a flying cow . ’ |
| 8 | I was touched by the good wishes of the crew when I went ashore . |
| 9 | Anticipating the harsh lighting in our room , Leslie had brought with him some candles , and I was touched by the romantic tenderness of the gesture . |
| 10 | Upon awakening , I was stirred by the muted chug and hum of the neighbour 's Cadillac . |
| 11 | Yet I was reassured by the very vapidity of these doctors or joggers or bodybuilders , these vigour-experts — something to do with their unsmiling pursuit of the good life . |
| 12 | I was assured by a friendly female voice that I would have no competition for the job . |
| 13 | As a result I was ridiculed by the other children . |
| 14 | Talking to members of the Education Area about their researches , I was struck by the constructive relationships that they built up with the schools and groups that they studied . |
| 15 | She replied ‘ simply : ‘ One day reading the Bible I was struck by the simple and loving demands of Jesus on his disciples and the intolerable demands of those who claimed to be Christ for me . |
| 16 | " I was struck by the good health and spirits of your little one . |
| 17 | And I was struck by an enthusiastic review of the programme by a male press critic which really emphasised for me how both political and media discourses are implicated in addressing audiences/voters in patriarchal terms that are outside most of our experience . |
| 18 | God seemed remote but I appealed for his protection and received a measure of assurance , though I felt that I was followed by an evil presence . |
| 19 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware , for example , that when my wife and I were strolling along Blackpool promenade during the recent summer , I was accosted by a Territorial Army recruiting sergeant and put under enormous pressure to join the TA ? |
| 20 | I was comforted by the little natural light that seeped through the canvas . |
| 21 | At the barrier at Gatwick , I was met by a friendly policeman who told me that the injuries were not as bad as had at first been thought , and that none of my family was in danger — news which immediately reduced me to tears . |
| 22 | After fifteen minutes on the Metro to Nevski Prospect I was met by a teeming downpour , heavy enough to keep me holed up under cover until ten minutes before the performance was due to start , and with the hall some hundreds of yards away along a back-street . |
| 23 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 24 | The journey by train from Cambridge to Lincoln was tedious , involving several changes , and on arrival I was met by the usual RAF truck for the half hour 's run into Binbrook village and from there up the steep hill to the RAF Station on its plateau above the low lying plains . |
| 25 | I was employed by the civil service to carry out special projects . |
| 26 | Then later I was selected by the local opera in Peking , as fiddle player and arranger . |
| 27 | His body was rich with the smell of sweat and kahlua and he sent me sprawling and hyper with untold hormones upon the bathroom tiles , but one day , suddenly , actually it was night , parked atop Mulholland Drive with the car windows steamed and the upright stick shift pressing painfully against my lower back and my head banging against the passenger door , I was paralysed by the heaving horny heaviness of him and my climax was full and first — first time ever — but followed by a limpness in my body , dull as the shade of putrid beige , and later I dreamed he had invaded me in sleep and crushed me with his broadness and with pillows , though Crilly it was not suffocation I feared , no , it was something more abstract , more bodily and carnivorous , something akin to nameless reptiles , and it was not so very different from the gun and the windbreaker blowing large and puffy about a stranger 's gut like a tent in my car at Pico Boulevard , and I so sure I would be found dismembered and crotchless and gory and absurd , strewn from limb to limb across the green tweed upholstery , unrecognisable in death , and again the windows steamed , the windows steamed with that hot clenched nameless fist inside me and the glide of cool metal against my neck , and then there were no thoughts , no words in my head , nothing . |
| 28 | I was fascinated by a large , framed print on the wall , depicting a tragedy that occurred in the Mediterranean around the turn of the century . |
| 29 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 30 | I was aroused by a metallic clatter . |