Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 2 | They have to erm , first of all ask er R S P C A funding it , which is very much against anyway because I , I hate being humiliated by the this way . |
| 3 | I am surprised to hear a defence spokesman ask that question , because he knows that the two cases to which I referred are covered by the negative security assurances which made the use of nuclear weapons in such circumstances inconceivable . |
| 4 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 5 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |
| 6 | On the other hand , I 'd been pulled by the cops for reasons not yet clear but had something to do with enigmatic Jo Scamp and her gaff in Sedgeley House . |
| 7 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 8 | ‘ I remember being fascinated by the story when I worked for a while in the Royal Library . |
| 9 | The soap I use is shared by the whole family , so my wife makes sure that it 's that pure white , unperfumed stuff for sensitive skin . |
| 10 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 11 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 12 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 13 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 14 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 15 | ‘ He said I had been pardoned by the president . ’ |
| 16 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 17 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 18 | But the important thing was , the impression that everyone er had , who read the paper , was that I had been interviewed by the press . |
| 19 | I had been hurt by the crude insults , deliberate distortions and sheer venom that had been directed at us . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , I had not read Mary Shelley 's novel since I was a lad ; such recollection of it as I had was obscured by the travesties of it I had watched in 4-D on film , TV , and CirC . |
| 21 | But I 've been asked by the PM to co-operate with a special operative of the CIA . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been asked by the Bishop to find out something about the background of Hereward Marr and his wife , ’ she tried , as an opener . |
| 23 | I 've been asked by the building custodian , acting on behalf of the fire service , to inform you that , should the fire alarm sound , you are required to leave the building in an orderly fashion by the nearest exist . |
| 24 | Er Chairman , yes , if I may just make a couple of , of , of , of , of , comments on , on , on the report side , I , I very much welcome the report back which I think has clarified a number of areas in the inspector 's report and what the services are actually , actually are doing about this one , I think er overall it 's er it , it , it 's , it 's very , it 's very er it 's very er very useful to see er what has been done erm I , I , I , I , I 've been assured by the Chief Officer er on item , item er , item three one at the top of page two , that the operational plans being devolved to individual sch will not apply to operational activity , they will be er to separate activity within the s er sch station , erm I did raise that because I was concerned about one station saying yes we will attend the fire and another one saying we wo n't , which obviously is not appropriate er but with that caveat I , I , I , very much welcome the report , I would like to move the proposals sch standing in , in , in , in , in my name that we commend the report as well as er er what 's on the officer 's erm er , er , er recomen er the re the recommended er resolution and that we send a copy of that , this |
| 25 | So what I intend to do from this week is that very thing , try and fill in as it were and er make up for what was n't covered in the classes because I must admit that this year I 've been struck by the high st high standard of the class presentations . |
| 26 | Suppressing the divine ire of the Northerner at Southern superciliousness , which would hardly serve his turn at this juncture , Greg said : ‘ The point is , I 've been commissioned by the local rag to write a pamphlet on Walter Machin and his World — ’ |
| 27 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 28 | Like the basic GL model , the SE I tested is powered by the proven 2-litre engine allied to a smooth five-speed gearbox ( automatic transmission is an £875 option ) . |
| 29 | In this respect , I have been influenced by the success of Proposition 13 enacted in California in 1978 , which necessitated a sharp reduction in property taxes . |
| 30 | Each year I have been struck by the repetition of the same pattern of reactions . |