Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 2 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 3 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |
| 4 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 5 | On the day of her resignation , the immortal line , ‘ It 's a funny old world , was fed by him to the press and television at his final unattributable lobby briefing at Downing Street . |
| 6 | It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument . |
| 7 | Marx 's internationalism paralleled what was identified by him as the leading sector of capitalism , the international . |
| 8 | The first defendant 's report was unfavourable to the plaintiff and it was sent by him to the plaintiff 's solicitors . |
| 9 | A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication . |