Example sentences of "[was/were] being [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 2 | There was a feeling that this was being imposed on them by the LEA . |
| 3 | When he re-emerged he was cradling an explosive projectile rifle similar to the one which was being trained on them by Kubitsky . |
| 4 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 5 | All this deceit was being forced upon her by his … his paranoia . |
| 6 | For some reason it felt as though she was being sucked into something by a card-sharp . |