Example sentences of "was [verb] by a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken only a few steps across the playground when he was stopped by a rough command . |
| 2 | He climbed the steps leading to the central lobby and was stopped by a burly policeman who asked the nature of his business . |
| 3 | Enjoying every minute of it we traversed right along a wide ledge sparkling with quartz crystals to an impasse , where the way ahead was stopped by a vertical wall suspended over immense space . |
| 4 | A short time later , on the other side of Hereford , a motorist was stopped by a white car with a blue light on top . |
| 5 | The following morning the convoy was stopped by a one-person LAG picket . |
| 6 | By now he was joined by a motley army of British guitarists , including a delighted Dave Davies from the Kinks , a diffident Stuart Adamson from Big Country , the Moody Blues bassist , John Lodge , and Queen 's Brian May , who was determined to startle the Killer with wailing heavy-metal solos . |
| 7 | Not far from Cairo the road was joined by a single-track railway line which carries mined iron ore from the oasis and a line of telegraph poles . |
| 8 | He was joined by a young Londoner , Jonathan Goodchild , who rapidly moved from being Sharp 's assistant to art director in his own right , leaving Sharp a clear run as perhaps the underground 's most innovative illustrator . |
| 9 | The doubt was joined by a faint tone of shrewish suspicion . |
| 10 | It was this colony of gannets that in 1860 was joined by a black-browed albatross , a lost wanderer from the southern oceans . |
| 11 | The abuse was uttered by a female throat . |
| 12 | Reminiscent of the peak days of Studio 54 , the Serpentine Gallery was mobbed by a large audience struggling to gain admission to the opening night of Robert Gober 's exhibition ( to 25 April ) . |
| 13 | His voice was burred by a thick country accent but , despite the snow-white hair and slight stoop of the shoulders , Father Peter was an active , cheerful man . |
| 14 | Chadwick 's important ‘ Three winged figures ’ of 1960–61 was a disappointing failure at £28,000 , but seems likely to sell after the sale ( it was underbid by a Spanish telephone bidder ) . |
| 15 | The crater was formed by a powerful eruption in 1902 , the same year as the eruption of Mt Pelee . |
| 16 | The story was dismissed by a Chinese official as " sheer fabrication " . |
| 17 | The silence was eased by a long wail from a ship 's hooter from downstream . |
| 18 | I was aroused by a metallic clatter . |
| 19 | When a large Turkish force invested the castle at Klis in 1536 , Kružić appealed to Ferdinand for help , but the Emperor 's attention was diverted by a Turkish invasion into Slavonia and he was unable to prevent the surrender of the garrison . |
| 20 | 1184 the appeal was heard by a two-judge court consisting of Oliver L.J . |
| 21 | Her case was heard by a special committee set up by the DoH , following calls for more openness in the NHS . |
| 22 | If so , perhaps the explosion and the subsequent punishment have brought him to his senses , for an upsurge in his form was highlighted by a violent century against Leicestershire . |
| 23 | A man who collapsed with chest pains in Barnard Castle was treated by a local doctor before the ambulance arrived after travelling about 15 miles from Darlington . |
| 24 | A man who collapsed with chest pains in Barnard Castle was treated by a local doctor before the ambulance arrived from Darlington 15 miles away . |
| 25 | He was treated by a local doctor before the ambulance , which had travelled from Darlington , arrived . |
| 26 | A CLAIM that patients in South Cleveland were being refused a lifeline because of cash cuts was refuted by a senior officer last night . |
| 27 | Inevitably the Communists were blamed , but it was whispered that the order was given by a prominent member of the government . |
| 28 | The USA , France , Venezuela and Argentina denounced the coup and demanded Aristide 's return to power , a demand echoed by the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , despite the re-affirmation at its June assembly of its traditional position of non-intervention if proof was given by a new government that it had gained control of its internal affairs [ see p. 38286 ] . |
| 29 | For the one-dimensional case this number was given by a binomial distribution . |
| 30 | The Directors already have a general authority to allot the unissued shares which was given by a special resolution passed on 20 November 1986 and is valid until November 1991 . |