Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , a apart from Bertha , I know he was tricked into it by his father and brother , that marriage , but he |
| 2 | But what he must not pretend is that he was led to this solely by his ‘ rational doubt ’ when in fact he was led to it by his faith , that is , his humanism . |
| 3 | How did you tell a man who had just expressed his undying love for you and his need to remain in your arms for ever and ever that he was separated from you by a distance of fifty years , and that only by some perverse and cruel trick of time had you been allowed to meet at all ? |
| 4 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 5 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 6 | ‘ He was dumped on me by your friend when he vanished , promising , of course , to be back in a day or two . ’ |
| 7 | He was dipped in it by me . |
| 8 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 9 | He was driven to it by the logic of interest and events . |
| 10 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 11 | He was driven towards her by the heat in his blood . |
| 12 | It was a considerable tribute to his growing reputation in high official circles , and the fact that he was proposed for it by Sir John Anderson ( later Viscount Waverley , q.v. ) , then permanent under-secretary at the Home Office , indicates that he already enjoyed the trust of the home departments he would henceforth be serving . |