Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 2 | I 'm turned on by the thought of making love to women . |
| 3 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 4 | I 'm called back by a member of the Guardia Nacional . |
| 5 | I 'm bowled over by the logic and impressed with the religious zeal . ’ |
| 6 | The fact was that all sorts of strange gear-shifts were taking place within my psyche , and I was eaten up by the morbid drama of Frankenstein . |
| 7 | I had thought I might stroll out towards the famous Liseberg Gardens , but I got no more than a couple of hundred yards before I was turned back by the pitiless downpour . |
| 8 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 9 | ‘ I said that if I was turfed out by the trade union vote I would see Neil Kinnock and we would then both issue a statement afterwards , ’ he said . |
| 10 | It 's obvious from the record that I was weighted down by an incredible burden I did n't know was mine or not. , |
| 11 | Suddenly I was struck down by an illness . |
| 12 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ As it was , I was referred back by the clinic a week later because of blood pressure problems and the midwife kept a check on me . |
| 14 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 15 | My mother died when I was fifteen , but I was brought up by a series of incompetent governesses and I saw little of either parent . |
| 16 | From when I was a small boy I was brought up by an aunt . |
| 17 | I was knocked down by a car and very nearly died . |
| 18 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 19 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 20 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 21 | I was picked up by a taxi driver once and we were going along and he said , ‘ Oh , I know that voice — oh , do n't tell me — you 're Jeremy Pascal , are n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 23 | ‘ I was coming back by the path from the ferry , through the woodland , and where the trees are thickest I stumbled over him . |
| 24 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 25 | Neighbour Brian Dean , a 55-year-old chauffeur , said : ‘ I was woken up by the police cars lining up in the middle of the street . |
| 26 | What happens if you are run over by an iceberg ? |
| 27 | Once you are wrapped around by the cirque you realize that it is not beautiful but what in the eighteenth century they knew as ‘ sublime ’ . |
| 28 | As you turn the corner towards the church of St Mary , which was enthusiastically restored in the picturesque style during the nineteenth century , you are bowled over by the beauty of this grandest of farms . |
| 29 | So if you 're knocked down by a bus , that does n't count . |
| 30 | That 's one which defines , while you are totally fit , whether you want your life artificially prolonged should you be struck down by an incapacitating illness or accident . |