Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the first three millennia BC , two of the main concentrations of political power of the day , the Assyrian empire and Babylonia , lived in a state of near-permanent warfare , first with one another and then with the Persian kingdom of Elam , which at different times captured both Babylon and Ur and was itself in about 1100 BC laid waste by the Assyrians . |
| 2 | And he also rejected claims by the policeman and a civilian that they witnessed a soldier being struck by other military personnel to make it appear he had been struck by the car . |
| 3 | It also included statements by the Palm Beach police detailing how they were misled when they went to the estate to speak with Senator Kennedy and Smith on March 31 . |
| 4 | Intriguingly foreshadowing our contemporary women 's liberation movement , some of these stalwart Victorians envisaged that the evolutionary struggle then involved domination by the female since , they argued , women first rebelled against these loose promiscuous relations to queen it over men . |
| 5 | Rebus then grabbed Osvaldo by the hair ; he looked disappointed in his prisoner . |
| 6 | Barphone — currently controlled 62% by the Apchin family and 28% by institutional investors — reported 1992 revenues equivalent to $63.6m and a net profit of $3.3m . |