Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | I was struck too by the way in which we started the programme by considering the dangers of the situation and there 's no doubt that that 's correct , but it is important to say , perhaps the most important thing is that the end of is n't in the Soviet Union and the break up of the Soviet Empire is an enormously positive event for all of us , for the citizens of the Soviet Union and for us in the West it gives the opportunity for much greater stability , real stability , peace and prosperity then ever existed under the old regime . |
| 6 | I was treated abominably by the police when I was assaulted in the home |
| 7 | It must have been then that I was blown up by the land-mine , which may well have knocked out Private Prescott as well . ’ |
| 8 | It turned out to be a very arty , dimly-lit place , and I was harried constantly by the manager , who wanted me out before he opened up , but somehow I managed to get the job done , and I was quite pleased with it too ’ . |
| 9 | I was led thither by the fiscal , who knows them well and is kind to them . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I was misled partly by the analogy with the surface of the earth . |
| 12 | I was taken aback by the decor — vivid red , yellow and green geometric patterns screaming from every wall . |
| 13 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 14 | I was told later by the Flight Sergeant that they counted five cannon and thirty 7.62mm holes in the machine . |
| 15 | ‘ When my father died my mother took me on a trip to Spain and I was bowled over by the El Grecos . |
| 16 | Anyway , then I was picked up by the bizzies for possession and it all came out then . |
| 17 | I was having a nap by the gas fire one evening when I was woken up by the doorbell . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 20 | She was faced starkly by the absolute wonder of life , and enfolded in that double-edged knowledge was the taste and imminence of death , which would be quite simply the absence of movement in the baby : stillness . |
| 21 | She forced Moran to dance and by the night 's end she was worn out by the single effort . |
| 22 | They sang something noble and uplifting about Spiderglass and the atmosphere of pride swelled Jezrael 's emotions until she was swallowed up by the crowd 's euphoria . |
| 23 | I think she was swept away by the power of the man and his importance . |
| 24 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 25 | After she was beaten up by the other pupils , Calvin said , ‘ The trouble with than one , though , is she 's ugly . |
| 26 | She told teachers she was weighed down by the responsibilities of looking after her three younger sisters , including a nine-month-old baby . |
| 27 | At dawn she was woken briefly by the sound of the sports car going down the drive . |
| 28 | A jealous rival turned the lovely Etain into a fly and she was carried away by the winds . |
| 29 | She was allowed in by the back door . |
| 30 | She was roused only by the sound of the door 's opening . |