Example sentences of "was [verb] by [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My suggestion to Angus , while we were dishwashing after the battle , that maybe his food could have been injected somehow with a substance that even now could be working away to the detriment of everyone 's health was received by him with frosty amusement . |
| 2 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 3 | However a set of terms arrives in a particular document , it is likely that at some stage it was prepared by someone with some degree of legal knowledge . |
| 4 | Injection was the sole route of use of less than 4 per cent of the clients , but in combination with other methods ( smoking and sniffing ) , injection was used by one in ten of the users . |
| 5 | ‘ The fact that I was needed by him in that setting was actually very attractive , because I was important . |
| 6 | The Model Railways and Locomotives magazine was founded by him in 1908 and became a platform from which he could share his knowledge and expertise with others . |
| 7 | ‘ Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five . |
| 8 | Smythson stayed on in the service of the Willoughby family , and was employed by them on administrative and financial business , as well as as a surveyor . |
| 9 | Check your records to make sure that your employee was employed by you at some time during that week . |
| 10 | Superlatives were flung , contracts were signed , tours were n't bothered with and , eventually , an album , ‘ Delaware ’ , was released last summer , where fluffy textures were toughened up and sweetness and light was offset by plenty of calculated chaos and nastiness . |
| 11 | The arms on a tea-tray we will be selling are those of the Duke of Northumberland and I am fascinated to read that his first wife was divorced by him in 1779 . |
| 12 | **The number of parliamentary seats was increased by one in 1992 with the division of the Milton Keynes constituency into two . |
| 13 | The Purcell Quartet 's second disc of Corelli trio sonatas from Opp. 1 and 2 ( the first was reviewed by me in 6/91 ) challenges our comfortable generalizations about these works . |
| 14 | She was chosen by one in five , narrowly beat sexy actress Kim Basinger 's 16 per cent , with Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer in third place . |