Example sentences of "was [verb] by [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |
| 2 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 3 | On the day of her resignation , the immortal line , ‘ It 's a funny old world , was fed by him to the press and television at his final unattributable lobby briefing at Downing Street . |
| 4 | It would appear that a large part of the answer was assumed by him from the outset and without argument . |
| 5 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 6 | Marx 's internationalism paralleled what was identified by him as the leading sector of capitalism , the international . |
| 7 | The first defendant 's report was unfavourable to the plaintiff and it was sent by him to the plaintiff 's solicitors . |
| 8 | A manuscript of poems was assembled by him for the Professor to view ; the intention being ( and Dudek was very well experienced in this sort of work ) for him to take the matter over and see it through to publication . |