Example sentences of "he was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That left an embarrassed home goalkeeper Ogrizovic to explain how all 6ft 4in of him was beaten by a chip by Arsenal 's substitue from 20 yards and from a daunting angle . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tony Allis , from Middleyard near Stroud in Gloucestershire , was moving a disputed fence in woodland behind his home when he was shot by a neighbour . |
| 7 | Tony Allis , from Middleyard near Stroud in Gloucestershire , was moving a disputed fence in woodland behind his home when he was shot by a neighbour . |
| 8 | As a well-known republican who had twice taken arms against Britain he could not expect clemency , and he was shot by a firing squad in Kilmainham gaol 5 May 1916 . |
| 9 | ‘ The American killed last week in Athens , Agency man , looks like he was shot by a Brit . ’ |
| 10 | TEN-year-old George Greenshields had a lucky escape when he was shot by an airgun sniper . |
| 11 | On Saturday another policeman , PC Ray Hall , was going about his normal duties when he was shot by an IRA gunman . |
| 12 | Earlier this month , he was censured by the BAF council over moves to oust the chief executive , Malcolm Jones . |
| 13 | He was buoyed by the knowledge that at last they had a clear suspect . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Liddell later returned to China as a teacher and missionary where he was interned by the Japanese at a camp in Weifang . |
| 19 | More than that , I think I can say he was loved by the public . |
| 20 | He insisted , and appeared to believe , that he was loved by the people and was simply the victim of a coup . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ( He was motivated by a belief that an economical " God would wish to organise things in this way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | From there , he was bunkered by the green and took three more to hole out . |
| 25 | Instead , he had hardly begun before he was embraced by a Brahmin woman and was asked , ‘ Why did you not come sooner ? ’ |
| 26 | It was widely rumoured that he was adopted by the Ceauşescus in 1946 . |
| 27 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He was visited by a memory of a cat-pissed ceiling , of a room with no view . |
| 30 | After yesterday 's Echo story he was visited by a Sedgefield Council official who gave him money for a return bus trip to Darlington . |