Example sentences of "that [vb past] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trudged on , breathing the dust of the dry summer road that had been shuffled up by the boots ahead , and they wondered if there would be an issue of rum before the fighting began , or whether they would be too late for the fighting and would instead be billeted in some soft Belgian village where the girls would flirt and the food would be plentiful . |
| 2 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 3 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 4 | After their 10km walk they were invited to Backnong for a special lunch that had been laid on by the Canal Dignitaries of the town . |
| 5 | In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Health Authority [ 1984 ] AC 174 the defendants sought to persuade the House of Lords to exercise their freedom under the Practice Statement [ 1966 ] 1 WLR 1234 , to reverse two rules that had been laid down by the majority of the House of Lords in West & Son Ltd v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC 326 , namely : ( 1 ) that the fact of unconsciousness does not eliminate the actuality of the deprivation of the ordinary experiences and amenities of life ( see the formulation used by Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest at p349 ) ; and ( 2 ) that , if damages are awarded upon a correct basis , it is of no concern to the court to consider any question as to the use that will thereafter be made of the money awarded . |
| 6 | Then in the 1830s thousands of immigrants arrived to seek homes and work in the new town that had been laid out by Joseph Pease , the Quaker industrialist who had extended the famous Stockton to Darlington railway so as to export coal from his Teeside wharves . |
| 7 | These emphases were repeated by Konstantin Chernenko , particularly in his address to the commission that had been set up by the Central Committee to prepare a revised programme . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 9 | ‘ This was to prepare us should we come across animals that had been knocked down by cars . |
| 10 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |