Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] by two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 2 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 3 | I was met by two organizers of the institute , and , who took me by car to Campinas which is not far away . |
| 4 | I WAS disturbed by two items in the Mirror 's study of teenage sex . |
| 5 | I was interviewed by two men in suits . |
| 6 | At one point , I was overtaken by two cars travelling along the narrow twisting country lane I was paralleling , and there was hardly any wind about , either . |
| 7 | Moots are legal problems in the form of imaginary cases , which are argued by two student ‘ counsel ’ ( a leader and a junior ) on each side , with a ‘ bench ’ of three ‘ judges ’ ( or perhaps only one ) representing the Court of Appeal or sometimes the House of Lords . |
| 8 | let me just get back that was abhorrent as a word w has already been used and er should be used again by what you said , you saw s somebody being raped by two soldiers . |
| 9 | Taking a standard Diamond or Malay shape which is formed by two spars at 90 degrees to each other , the ‘ spars ’ are known variously as ‘ sticks ’ or , the ‘ spine ’ and the ‘ spreader ’ , or the ‘ keel ’ and the ‘ cross-spar ’ . |
| 10 | In the room , Fame places a wreath on a bust of Charles II , which is flanked by two people . |
| 11 | Scotland coaches Johnny Brown and Bob Easson praised their side 's defence , yet they were left to lament on some daft errors in a match which was pockmarked by two flare-ups — one straight from the kick-off — and some rank inconsistent refereeing , where the advantage law was entirely disregarded . |
| 12 | No one spoke during the journey , which was marked by two events , one of them baleful . |
| 13 | It would have been money well spent by Wolves , who were beaten by two goals from the in-form striker after taking the lead through Paul Cook . |
| 14 | The students — John Frail , Michael Gayton , Jason Keeble , Dahlia Simpson , Penny Mitchell , Lisa Cotterill and Melanie Brown — who were accompanied by two Northampton College lecturers , cooked an English meal of beef in beer for Italian catering students and local dignitaries during their stay . |
| 15 | Doreen Ditchburn , an eighty-three year old widow , was walking home when she was robbed by two attackers and pushed to the ground , breaking her leg . |
| 16 | She was flanked by two men . |
| 17 | She was accompanied by two women aides as she boarded the Edinburgh-bound BAE146 jet . |
| 18 | In addition , whilst Falangists Arrese and Girón de Velasco were ousted respectively from the Party Secretariat and the Ministry of Labour , they were replaced by two men who were also Falangists but who , by contrast , were known to be more moderate and flexible in their views than their predecessors . |
| 19 | They were supported by two battalions of paratroops and other crack forces . |
| 20 | When they reached the Royal Pavilion , ‘ the prettiest building in England ’ , they were stopped by two constables . |
| 21 | The first day of '92 brought defeat at Gillingham ; they were sunk by two goals in two minutes . |
| 22 | On a Saturday night in July they were woken by two burglars who hit Mr Ross repeatedly on the head and body , tied them both up and demanded the keys of the safe . |
| 23 | In Amersham , the church meeting of the Lower Meeting House ( Baptist ) heard in 1892 that ‘ several of our young members have been absent from the means of grace [ communion ] for many months and it was resolved that they be visited by two members of the Church ’ . |
| 24 | It is flanked by two towers four storeys high ( one of which has been damaged and has only three storeys left ) . |
| 25 | My first car was a twin-carburettor Singer sports car , bright red with a silvery grey hood shaped from part of a wartime barrage balloon ; it was supported by two metal frames shaped like ice hockey goals . |
| 26 | It was flanked by two towers and its entrance was reached only by a narrow stairway , but by no stretch of the imagination could it be called a fortress . |
| 27 | It was reached by two miles of track through a tunnel along the banks of the Seine from the Gare d'Austerlitz . |
| 28 | It was followed by two afternoon dresses with tiny waists and lace inserts and huge pleated upper sleeves like bellows . |
| 29 | But one day in late summer , when I was pointing the otter out to my passengers , and as usual it got up to move out of sight , I saw to my surprise that it was followed by two cubs ! |
| 30 | While this work was going on it was observed by two Parish Councillors that the concrete holding the seat in place had been smashed and the seat itself removed . |