Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [adv] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 2 | They were tipped off by a person claiming that the stand in West Bromwich , West Midlands , was not licensed to sell the reptiles . |
| 3 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 4 | All the bills were picked up by a consortium of local banks and newspapers . |
| 5 | The refugees were picked up by a convoy of buses at the Austrian border . |
| 6 | His choice of words , perhaps , was unfortunate , especially as they were picked up by a TV microphone and broadcast clearly to the nations . |
| 7 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 8 | Data recording and assessment of results were carried out by a member of the unit who did not participate in endoscopic treatment or looked after the patients . |
| 9 | In Belfast , the first three of these ( in the inner-city areas ) were carried out by an outsider to Northern Ireland ( myself ) who as a consequence was not assigned a role in relation to local ethnic categories . |
| 10 | They took the lead courtesy of Trevor Smith 's sixth goal of the season but were pegged back by an equaliser from Johnny Jameson who failed to appear for the second half . |
| 11 | Then I turned to the other side of the coin — the Civil War that might break out , even if Reunion were voted in by a majority and approved by the Dáil . |
| 12 | Soon after , her husband 's family in Pakistan and her own family there were torn apart by a feud . |
| 13 | Until about 1780 these expectations were met largely by a relief system which was " generous , flexible and humane " . |
| 14 | MORE THAN 350 oil workers were airlifted ashore by a fleet of helicopters last night from an accommodation vessel adrift in the North Sea . |
| 15 | His humiliation and fear were washed away by a tide of anger , at this open display of contempt . |
| 16 | But we were told recently by a delegation from the french Senate , studying British methods of scrutiny of Community legislation , that they had great difficulty in obtaining copies of Commission legislative proposals and that it had been necessary for them to establish an office in Brussels to ensure a reliable supply . |
| 17 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 18 | Suppose we were swallowed up by an earthquake , we thought , as Amphiaraus had been ? |
| 19 | And in this hundred , and I think most people here are at least over sixteen , ninety one of the women here were brought up by a mother and a father and only er , nine by one parent . |
| 20 | On the contrary , according to the Middle East International of Feb. 22 , in the occupied territories the supporters of the PLO and those of its rival , the strongly Islamic Hamas , were brought together by a blend of secular nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism similar to that achieved by the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein . |
| 21 | Brihtric pursued him with eighty vessels , which were driven ashore by a storm , and then burnt by Wulfnoth . |
| 22 | But they were driven back by a hail of huge roof slates . |
| 23 | He thought that these were all ‘ lines of electrical equipotential ’ resulting from ‘ geophysical anomalies ’ and that ancient monuments , roads and boundaries coincided with them because they were laid out by a priesthood who could detect the lines . |
| 24 | A low table carried some tidily arranged journals and newspapers ; letters on the desk top were pinned down by a silver paper knife . |
| 25 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 26 | That August the three Maguire children died when they and their mother , Anne , were run down by a terrorist who had been shot by soldiers during an incident . |
| 27 | The tots were struck down by a superbug in the intensive care unit at the London hospital . |
| 28 | In 1621 his domestic sales were cut sharply by a patent issued to Sir Sackville Crowe [ q.v. ] to supply ordnance to all English merchants . |
| 29 | The Opojaz group , as its full title implies ( The Society for the Study of Poetic Language ) consisted of students of literature who were united both by a dissatisfaction with existing forms of literary study and by a positive interest in the poetry of the Russian Futurists . |
| 30 | ‘ In ninety-three legislative words , ’ he said , ‘ the safeguards gained after centuries of constitutional struggle , even bloody civil wars , were swept aside by a provision that said simply that hereafter anything enacted by the EEC automatically became British law , annulling any laws which were inconsistent without debate . |