Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I must have been noticed , I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles . |
| 2 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 3 | I was invited by the owners of a struggling estate in Bardez province to look around their 300-year-old house . |
| 4 | After the shock , I was warmed by the idea that the visitor was Jesus or an angel , and then terrified by the thought that it was an omen of my death . |
| 5 | I was grabbed by the lapels of my dressing gown and pinned against the wall . |
| 6 | This could be made in either double jacquard or Fair Isle and I was inspired by a sweater in very subtle colours worn by Iris Bishop ( not for once , one of her own creations ! ) . |
| 7 | Having kept tropical marines for a number of years , I was inspired by an article in an old fish keeping magazine , to keep native marines . |
| 8 | And I was inspired by the size of the contribution they were clearly destined to make . |
| 9 | I had no idea how much there was in there , but I reckoned it was probably what I was owed by the Scamp family plus a few expenses . |
| 10 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 11 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |
| 12 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 13 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 15 | I was moved by the peace of him , the innocence of his head , the warm coil of his drugged limbs . |
| 16 | She thought I was moved by the kindness of the malais ! |
| 17 | I was moved by the account , seeing resemblances between the experience of these women , dead many thousands of years before , and women alive now who weep over men whose love they think is dead but try to revive with their tears . |
| 18 | Soon I was converted by the precision and subtlety , and saw that she wrote better than anyone else . |
| 19 | Before I could examine them , I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain . |
| 20 | I had hoped to slip in unnoticed but , almost as soon as I booked in the hotel , I was isolated by a dusk to dawn curfew . |
| 21 | Where a driver says ‘ I was blinded by the sun ’ or ‘ There was a patch of fog ’ or ‘ The road was covered with black ice ’ , he should have stopped , reduced his speed or driven at a speed which was safe . |
| 22 | After that I was blacked by the quality schools , but I soon landed a job for the rest of the year with a cowboy outfit in Italy who needed a replacement teacher in a hurry . |
| 23 | That evening while I was strolling by the sea , I felt some small twinge of sadness that I could not possess such physical belongings . |
| 24 | When in 1974 I was flattered by an invitation to make a T V appearance as the Dimbleby lecturer , I accepted without hesitation . |
| 25 | ‘ I was flattered by the idea . |
| 26 | It often works , though once in London when I so far forgot myself as to try this ploy , I was rewarded by a grimace of fascinating sarcasm ! |
| 27 | The upshot was that I was summoned by the university authorities and told that I was to be allowed to continue my studies but only under certain stringent conditions . |
| 28 | As I drew nearer , however , I was nagged by a feeling which was soon confirmed . |
| 29 | ‘ I was stopped by a catch fence at the field which undoubtedly saved me . ’ |
| 30 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |