Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | No further mention was made of her by Biff or Mother Bombie . |
| 2 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 3 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |
| 4 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 5 | Its effect was described to me by a white probationary teacher : |
| 6 | The script was handed to him by Casper Wrede , a director friend from the Royal Exchange who directed him on screen in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . |
| 7 | The figure was mentioned to me by the manager of a gay bar who was justifying the role of the establishment , but added , ‘ some of them are not angels you know . |
| 8 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that figure was forced upon him by Ministers collectively . |
| 9 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |
| 10 | The Emperor 's armour was made for him by Dwarf smiths and incorporates some of the actual armour worn by Magnus the Pious at the battle of Kislev . |
| 11 | So Rachel at six years and Margaret at five years were left in England after our second furlough , and generous help was provided for them by the organiser of a preparatory school . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | By the summer , after a trial period , he was doing well , and the necessary clothing was provided for him by the Union . |
| 14 | But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week . |
| 15 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 16 | ‘ My outside bet for the job was suggested to me by Steve Hodge shortly before I left Forest , ’ writes Chapman . |
| 17 | The wine was introduced into them by means of fine glass pipettes , though the champagne had to be robbed of its sparkle before it could be persuaded to enter ! |
| 18 | Although Francis Berry 's involvement with the cellar came purely from his friendship with Lutyens , this must not be taken as favouritism Berry 's was one of the oldest wine merchants in the business ( the company started trading in 1699 ) , and their first royal warrant was given to them by Edward VII , an honour the firm holds to this day . |
| 19 | The group was built from nothing by Gedge and brilliantly nurtured without the sickening prevarication involved in most of pop 's success stories . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Then the opportunity of having an unexpected extra curate was presented to them by George Carey , then Bishop of Bath and Wells , in late July and a new leader moved with his family into the Carters ' house at the end of September . |
| 22 | Your name was given to me by Liz Robertson , in connection with Bruce Harris 's visit , and as I have failed to contact you by ‘ phone I thought I would write . |
| 23 | Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers . |
| 24 | Word of the arrival in London of the new king was brought to her by Prince Richard . |
| 25 | His faltering authority was demonstrated in December when an extensive Cabinet reshuffle was forced upon him by factional leaders . |
| 26 | A love of art was kindled in her by a Dominican priest in the 1930s , and indeed , a spiritual and moral consciousness beyond the usual lip-service to the ‘ otherness ’ of creative endeavour has always informed her involvement in art . |
| 27 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 28 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 29 | Legend has it that the ‘ eyes ’ or ‘ spectacles ’ on the rear of the Cobra 's hood were given to it by Guatama the Buddha as protection against the attacks of Garuda the Eagle , arch enemy of the Cobras . |
| 30 | ‘ This object was taken from you by my servants . |