Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 2 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 3 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 4 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 5 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 6 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 7 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 9 | A member of the Cheshire Regiment yesterday told how he escaped being blown up by a mine , only to be fired at by Croatian forces . |
| 10 | Relationship between trade and between members of state , strictly competition and I said I 'd be the one erm relative case , just to demonstrate the course , Lord , erm I 've usefully used the time this morning to do a , a brief aden am moire of the point , the relevant photographs and the , just in case , if I can just hand that out ena enable me to , to speed through the admission , my Lord if I can just er take the through it and apart , my Lord paragraph five is triggered by an agreement which effects trade between members of states , er in windsurfing the court considered an argument that the causes and the contested agreement which had been struck down by the commission did not forward then article eighty five because they did not have that trade between members of states , the court replied , that argument must be rejected , article eighty five does not require that each and individual cause in the agreement should be capable of affecting into community trade , community law or competition applies to agreements between undertakings which may effect member of states , only if the agreement as a whole is capable of effecting trade is it necessary to exam which other clauses of the agreement which havers there object , let's just say or , or effect the restriction of competition . |
| 11 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 12 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 13 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 14 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 16 | Our Life President , Lady Sybil Clampe , was unable to be with us because she had been hemmed in by an inconsiderate BMW in the station car park in Swindon , but she gave a rousing presidential address over her car phone . |
| 17 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 18 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 19 | ( In fact , over fifty additional questionnaires had been sent in by the third week in November ) . |
| 20 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 21 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 22 | But now the power of the Lords had been cut down by an Act of Parliament , and they could only postpone the enactment of the Home Rule Bill for two years . |
| 23 | Part of the top floor had been sectioned off by the police and now housed those involved in the kidnapping . |
| 24 | He went scurrying to the dusty shelves in the basement of the chemistry department at Stanford : the vital page had been chopped out by a razor blade . |
| 25 | The Campbells ' rooms had been given up by the officers of the household for the visitors . |
| 26 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 27 | But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court . |
| 28 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 29 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 30 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |