Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] [verb] [prep] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was well looked after by her . |
| 2 | I was also spoken to by the Chief Whip who reiterated that the majority of the party were for Alec . |
| 3 | That point enables me to raise with the Minister the matter of aid to mining areas , which was also referred to by my hon. Friend the Member for Hemsworth . |
| 4 | They did , however , find a higher rate of deviance in communication style , particularly among fathers , which was largely accounted for by overtalkativeness . |
| 5 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 6 | I imagine that in Austria , as in England at the time , it was rather frowned upon by so-called serious musicians ? |
| 7 | It was highly thought of by Stephen Hales [ q.v. ] , |
| 8 | It 's believed it was deliberately set upon by lurcher dogs . |
| 9 | Whatever political positions he was later driven into by a jealous Hollywood , Chaplin as a film-maker was never a propagandist or a preacher . |
| 10 | What he was not prepared for by his previous nursing experience was the lengths to which the staff in his ward had taken the system . |
| 11 | In other words , Bukharin was cautiously calling for curbs on Stalin 's power , even if he was not referred to by name . |
| 12 | After the break Smith proved the menacing player for Stockton but he was well dealt with by a hard working Stockton defence . |
| 13 | Not surprisingly , such unselfish acts by a runner whose ability commands respect , have made Zarei one of the most popular figures in ultra running , and he was recently referred to by one of his rivals as ‘ Gentleman James ’ . |
| 14 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |