Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writers have said that Eleanor was driven to violence by Henry 's adulteries , culminating in his open attachment to Rosamund Clifford . |
| 2 | His later Lives do not inspire great confidence in their historical details about a young king seeking the hand of Offa 's daughter in marriage and falling a victim to the machinations of Queen Cynethryth , who alleged that Aethelberht 's real intention was to reconnoitre the Mercian kingdom with a view to invading it , and when the Chronicon ex Chronicis also claims that Aethelberht was put to death by Offa at the instigation of Queen Cynethryth it is not necessarily independent of the legend . |
| 3 | Nor will the East End map show the Stoke Newington house where Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVitie was stabbed to death by Reggie through the eye , neck and stomach . |
| 4 | Mr Brock was taken to hospital by ambulance . |
| 5 | Dic Bach y Saer was put to bed by the older children he so serenely neglected , whispering , ‘ I 've got children in a thousand , good as gold . ’ |
| 6 | Eden was tested to destruction by the Suez crisis . |
| 7 | ANIMAL lover Angela Toller was kicked to death by a herd of cows as she fought to save her pekinese from being trampled underfoot yesterday . |
| 8 | Aaron was taken to hospital by his father , Graham , who could not find the missing digit . |
| 9 | Beatty was rocketed to stardom by Elia Kazan — the director who brought Dean to stardom in East of Eden — and , unlike Nicholson , he had influential friends and relations . |
| 10 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |