Example sentences of "it [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 2 | I do n't think it was dictated to her by John Wesley . |
| 3 | ‘ It was thrust upon me by Uncle Vernon . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was assigned to me by the press , a breed which in my experience cares little for such irrelevancies as accuracy . ’ |
| 5 | erm A lot of people gave as a reason for getting a particular piece of furniture the fact that it was given to them by their parents when they got married , or that a neighbour was trying to get rid of it , or that somebody from work had passed it on and they needed one . |
| 6 | ‘ It was given to me by my grandmother , the lady Jacquetta , and has a curious history . |
| 7 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 8 | ‘ It was given to me by someone who feels deeply on the subject , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I 'm glad you mentioned that cos it was given to me by the wife of the steeplechase handicap a very important man today cos for more than |
| 10 | It was given to you by a certain gentleman , as security against a loan . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It was given to us by a descendant of Boutcher , who wants to remain anonymous . |
| 12 | It was given to us by Amnesty International and used with their full permission . |
| 13 | Have some more chutney , it was given to us by our German daughter-in-law . |
| 14 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 15 | You did not learn that from mortal man ; it was revealed to you by my heavenly Father . |
| 16 | As McKerrow put it : " much of what we strive to find out was not and could not be known to those of the period which we study , for it was veiled from them by the life of everyday . " |
| 17 | Are you telling me it was presented to you by the Royal Artillery Club ? |
| 18 | It was snatched from her by a woman without heart or conscience , a woman driven by greed . |
| 19 | He shook his coat outside and it was carried before him by Stephen Holly along the corridor that led into the backroom where a windowed coke boiler blazed and the coat was draped across a fender . |
| 20 | ‘ It was told to me by a black guy : ‘ What 's black with red stripes ? |
| 21 | Er so that 's that 's as it was told to me by er the th their their Chairman erm Win Winder . |
| 22 | It was supplied to me by John Duffy , secretary of the NI Football Programme Collector 's Club . |
| 23 | It was suggested to me by an Italian recipe for a sauce or relish called sapore de morone which appears in Epulario , first published in Venice in 1516 . |
| 24 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 25 | ‘ She knew nothing about any document she was to sign until it was brought to her by her husband . |
| 26 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 27 | It was designed for me by that spooky little twosome , the Emmanuels ’ |
| 28 | It was described to us by an experienced wildlife film-maker , Alastair MacEwen , who was filming house martins with a high speed camera . |
| 29 | It was awarded to us by the Independent Television Commission after we submitted an unopposed bid for the franchise . |
| 30 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |