Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop 's resignation was announced at a Press Conference held at the Cathedral , when a statement by him was read out by the Diocesan spokesman . |
| 2 | On Christmas Day he was moved out by a policeman , and that , he said , was when he lost his faith . |
| 3 | He was shot down by a Luftwaffe night-fighter . ’ |
| 4 | However , when Bernard applied for planning permission to build a factory on the site he was turned down by the local highways department . |
| 5 | He was turned down by the " Goldsmith Libel Fund " , an eccentric exercise in philanthropy which bankrolls plaintiffs of conservative persuasion ( notably Tory MPs ) who bring libel actions against media organisations perceived as left-wing ( eg the BBC ) . |
| 6 | Look at Ben Hogan , a legend and a perfectionist who gave up the game when he was struck down by the dreaded ‘ yips ’ . |
| 7 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 8 | While there he was called up by the England squad when the touring team ran into injury trouble last summer . |
| 9 | Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America . |
| 10 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 11 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |
| 12 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 13 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |
| 14 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 15 | The 41-year-old victim died instantly when he was run over by a Bedford van less than a mile from his home in Witney , Oxon . |
| 16 | A PASSENGER died from appalling injuries after he was beaten up by a woman bus conductor , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 17 | ‘ He was shoved around by a few other prisoners , ’ said a guard at the Bois d'Arcy prison , outside Paris . |
| 18 | Stephen Wylie , a twenty-four year old businessman from Swindon was travelling on a minor road towards the village of Clanfield when he was flagged down by a man at the side of the road . |
| 19 | Like many of his contemporaries he was bowled over by the charismatic personality of Eleutherios Venizelos , the Greek politician . |
| 20 | He was a radical and five times the Mayor of Bedford , remaining on the council until 1892 , when he was voted out by the Conservatives ( who expressed personal regret ) . |
| 21 | He was picked up by a rescue boat , but onlookers say THAT craft was then involved in a second accident . |
| 22 | When Keating painted in the style of Palmer , he was picked up by the Fraud Squad . |
| 23 | He was picked up by an RAF helicopter at Crowdy , near Davidstow . |
| 24 | Thakin Thein Pe made his way out to India where he received scant encouragement until he was taken up by the cloak-and-dagger organisation , Force 136 , which was desperately trying to justify its mysterious and expensive existence . |
| 25 | Until he was taken up by the Princesse Mathilde . |
| 26 | He was taken off by a helicopter from RAF Valley , Anglesey and flown to hospital in Barrow-in-Furness . |
| 27 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 28 | When he eventually gave up and drove away , he was weighed down by a leaden conviction that he would never return . |
| 29 | After Vorontseff had fallen off twice he was hoisted up by a grinning trooper and thrown face down in front of the saddle . |
| 30 | JAMES COOK 'S defence of the European super-middleweight title lasted just 40 seconds as he was knocked out by the undefeated Franck Nicotra , of France , in Vitrolles last night . |