Example sentences of "he was [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defence against him was supervised by the Archbishop of York , and three holy banners of St Peter of York , St John of Beverley and St Wilfrid of Ripon were flown from a standard in a cart , giving the subsequent engagement near Northallerton the name of ‘ Battle of the Standard ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 3 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 4 | Earlier this month , he was censured by the BAF council over moves to oust the chief executive , Malcolm Jones . |
| 5 | He was buoyed by the knowledge that at last they had a clear suspect . |
| 6 | What would happen if the Institute were not accepted on a new Register ? was glad of the opportunity to speak on the matter and as the Institute representative on the Committee he was disturbed by the lack of progress by the appointed agent . |
| 7 | Admittedly , he was disturbed by the news of the remilitarisation of the Rhineland in March , and dismayed above all by the noninterventionist policies adopted by France and Great Britain towards Spain during the latter part of the year , but despite these setbacks , Nizan 's mood throughout 1936 was generally optimistic . |
| 8 | Secondly , he was disturbed by the fact that spiritual truths did n't stir his emotions or grip his imagination as much as he felt they should . |
| 9 | He was disturbed by the grief , the stinking clothes , the bad trips , the fourteen-year-olds carted off in ambulances , the random unloving fucking and miserable escapes from family to squalid squats in Herne Hill . |
| 10 | Liddell later returned to China as a teacher and missionary where he was interned by the Japanese at a camp in Weifang . |
| 11 | More than that , I think I can say he was loved by the public . |
| 12 | If Gould was disgusted by the commercial exploits of his fellow white men , he was compensated by the reverence for birds that he discovered among the Aborigines . |
| 13 | He was motivated by the bankruptcy of the country , to be sure , and the poverty of the masses , not to mention the need for an injection of wise counselling ( unrelated to politics ) , and the revival of trade and commerce . |
| 14 | From there , he was bunkered by the green and took three more to hole out . |
| 15 | In December , after Eisenhower had belatedly denounced him for trying to " set himself above the laws of our land " , he was condemned by the Senate . |
| 16 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |
| 17 | Already he was inspired by the thought of their fusion . |
| 18 | He was stopped by the snout of Shamlou 's pistol , jammed hard under his chin . |
| 19 | He was reassured by the man 's friendship . |
| 20 | But he was reassured by the fact that the Dhah had promised that they were leaving only for a few weeks vacation . |
| 21 | ‘ Where is it , Watson ? ’ he whispered , and I could see that he was shaken by the scream . |
| 22 | This was not always successful because of the autonomy neighbourhood police have while on the beat , and he told us , with some regret , that as a final resort he was instructed by the sergeant not to take his book of fixed-penalty tickets with him when he was accompanied by the field-worker . |
| 23 | On three occasions he was referred by the court for a psychiatric report on account of his oddness , lack of sociability , occasional outbursts of violence and a suspicion that he was taking illegal drugs . |
| 24 | His force was ambushed a little short of its objective and he was killed by the French and their Indian allies . |
| 25 | He was killed by the sniper . |
| 26 | ‘ I believe he was killed by the pressure he was under . |
| 27 | But predators came in various shapes and sizes , and he was troubled by the knowledge that any rescue party from the Simonova could also include the person who was responsible for dumping him in the escape pod . |
| 28 | But he was troubled by the proximity of houses and ahead by the evidence of industry and a pall of haze and smoke in the air . |
| 29 | I could see he was troubled by the need to start a new piece of paper when we got back to the surgery . |
| 30 | He was repulsed by the scramble of images in her mind . |