Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv prt] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 3 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 4 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 5 | A good woman , someone had explained to him on the road from Brighouse , the widow of Radical Jack Thackray , something of a local hero , who had been cut down by a sabre at St Peter 's Fields in Manchester , asking for rather less in the way of electoral reform than Daniel himself was demanding now . |
| 6 | He went scurrying to the dusty shelves in the basement of the chemistry department at Stanford : the vital page had been chopped out by a razor blade . |
| 7 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 8 | George Dinsdale , stationed at Redcar , said the man , known only as a Mr Kirwan of Lumley Street , Redcar , jumped into the water near a slipway to rescue a youth who had been dragged in by a huge wave . |
| 9 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 10 | Perhaps too serene , Ellen thought : there was something static in her expression , as if the skin had been plumped out by a layer of silicone wax beneath , and made her doll-like . |
| 11 | The bright evening skies that had served as a backdrop for the parade of revenants had been blotted out by a darkness which entombed them once more in the grave of the past . |
| 12 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 13 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 14 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 15 | Pointing upwards he indicated a large nest high in a pine tree and told us that it was the nest of a buzzard which had been taken over by a great grey owl . |
| 16 | It had been taken over by a new contingent of tourists . |
| 17 | Or rather the house in Mouncy Street had been taken over by a succession of dead bodies . |
| 18 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 19 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 20 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 23 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 24 | He said the raid had been carried out by a ‘ commando group armed with heavy weapons ’ which had attacked ‘ precise targets ’ . |
| 25 | Having approved the new constitution , which had been drawn up by a nine-member Constitutional Recommendation Committee , the King turned the document over to the Council of Ministers , which had been invested with legislative powers in mid-May [ see p. 37453 ] . |
| 26 | Hannah Dooley knew a bloke in Birmingham who had been set on by a group of small ‘ pod-like ’ creatures while out walking his dog . |
| 27 | He , with his two elder brothers , had been brought up by a nanny , until , three years later , his father married Liz . |
| 28 | Pathologist Ernest Walton said his death had been brought about by a combination of internal bleeding due to multiple injuries and alcoholic liver disease , which caused liver failure . |
| 29 | Miyazawa had taken over from Toshiki Kaifu only on Nov. 5 , 1991 , after the Kaifu administration had been brought down by a string of financial corruption cases [ see pp. 38558-59 ] . |
| 30 | What the paper scathingly called the ‘ story of the refugees ’ had been whipped up by a ‘ noisy propaganda campaign dripping with chauvinism and nationalism ’ . |