Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 2 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 3 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 4 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 6 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 7 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 8 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 9 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 10 | It turned out to be a very arty , dimly-lit place , and I was harried constantly by the manager , who wanted me out before he opened up , but somehow I managed to get the job done , and I was quite pleased with it too ’ . |
| 11 | I was led thither by the fiscal , who knows them well and is kind to them . |
| 12 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 13 | I was re-assured however by an old sheep fence which guided me — incredible that anyone could put a fence on such a slope ! |
| 14 | I was misled partly by the analogy with the surface of the earth . |
| 15 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 16 | I think I 'd have a siege mentality if I was pursued relentlessly by a pack of slavering tabloid reporters baying for blood . |
| 17 | When I er er were in the tool room at , Newark at the age of twenty one plus , you see , not twenty two er I was approached then by a shop steward who worked on the bench , was a fitter . |
| 18 | I was taken aback by the decor — vivid red , yellow and green geometric patterns screaming from every wall . |
| 19 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 20 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 21 | I was knocked down by a car and very nearly died . |
| 22 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 23 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 24 | In the event there were a gratifying number of white balls but too many black ones to see me through ( I was told later by a mole the names of some of those who had cast them , and I ca n't say I was surprised ) . |
| 25 | I was told later by the Flight Sergeant that they counted five cannon and thirty 7.62mm holes in the machine . |
| 26 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 27 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 28 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 29 | ‘ I was coming back by the path from the ferry , through the woodland , and where the trees are thickest I stumbled over him . |
| 30 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |