Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were handed to him by a tiny nut-brown man in a red fez , who also sold little packets of sugared almonds and pistachios . |
| 2 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 3 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 4 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 5 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 6 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 7 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 8 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 9 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 10 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 11 | The ordination was conferred upon him by the special approval of the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 12 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
| 13 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 14 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 15 | The spark of poetry was kindled in him by an elderly woman who lived with the family and was full of tales of witches and warlocks . |
| 16 | He did tell Theo that the sketch was suggested to him by a poem of Thomas Hood 's relating the story of a conscience-stricken rich lady who has been to buy a dress and sees an emaciated , consumptive seamstress in a back room of the shop . |
| 17 | Note was also taken , if regretfully , of the questionable conduct of our Legal Adviser de Palfrey — I even got my de back * — who had failed to justify his use of the Home Secretary 's delegated authority in the full knowledge that this was required of him by the secretly agreed Procedures Governing the Service 's Activities as Amended by etcetera , and in accordance with paragraph something of a deniable Home Office protocol . |