Example sentences of "were [verb] by [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds who flocked to listen to John 's preaching of repentance were baptised by him in the Jordan in penitent expectation of the age of fulfilment which he proclaimed . |
| 2 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 3 | S1 always stood out as a unit and these boys , who were always together , were known by everybody in the sample . |
| 4 | In this case the findings of the justices and their reasons , so far as concerns the making of the order for costs , were announced by them in the following terms : |
| 5 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |