Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was called to myself by the echoing hoot of the ferry 's siren , to find that the shop had emptied of its crowd , and the postmistress , taking off her spectacles , was hurrying round to the store counter to look after the stranger . |
| 2 | and I I was taken to it by friends . |
| 3 | ‘ I was very fond of ffeatherstonehaugh 's from the time I was introduced to it by a pal of mine in the late 1940s . |
| 4 | But I was talked into it by my boyfriend . |
| 5 | I just drifted into it 'cos I was forced into it by me family . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I was recommended to you by our architect , Paul Richardson . ’ |
| 7 | We love you because you were sent to us by Our Father . " |
| 8 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 9 | She was sent to me by her doctor , whom she had consulted because she suffered from anxiety attacks and what she called ‘ turns ’ . |
| 10 | She was pitchforked into it by the early death of her husband James V. But this woman from France made sure that she learned about the country she would control . |
| 11 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 12 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ But I would think you know that , they were introduced to me by your partner , General Roquelaure . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I do n't think it was dictated to her by John Wesley . |
| 17 | ‘ It was thrust upon me by Uncle Vernon . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 19 | erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one . |
| 20 | ‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history . |
| 21 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 22 | ‘ It was given to me by someone who feels deeply on the subject , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 24 | It was given to you by a certain gentleman , as security against a loan . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was given to us by a descendant of Boutcher , who wants to remain anonymous . |
| 26 | It was given to us by Amnesty International and used with their full permission . |
| 27 | Have some more chutney , it was given to us by our German daughter-in-law . |
| 28 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 29 | You did not learn that from mortal man ; it was revealed to you by my heavenly Father . |
| 30 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |