Example sentences of "she [vb past] [vb pp] by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But how come she got invited by the Reagans … ?
2 She became frightened by the effects .
3 She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do .
4 Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years .
5 Earlier this summer Julia said that she felt shattered by the show 's punishing schedule .
6 At thirteen she felt trapped by the system of growing into a woman , which seemed to be separating them , and longed more than ever to be his son .
7 In Hungary she had attempted by the Urbarium of 1767 , against bitter opposition from the Diet , to protect the peasants against excessive exploitation .
8 What she had been used to see every month , postponed she had thought by the excitement , the travel .
9 And it was n't until she had knelt by the heap of earth that signified her mother 's unconsecrated grave that she had stopped crying .
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