Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] to [pers pn] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hardly remember him and what I tell you about him was mostly told to me by my mother . |
| 2 | To add to these burdens , the 1340 tax of a ninth of corn , sheep and wool , from which the clergy had obtained exemption by their grant of a normal tenth , was nevertheless applied to them by many local officials at first acting on their own initiative , but after January 1341 on the king 's orders . |
| 3 | Blessed are you , Simon son of Jonah , for this was not revealed to you by man but by my Father in heaven . |
| 4 | That persistence must however be seen against the background of the following factors : ( a ) the weakness of her faith as I have found it ; ( b ) the fact that no explanation was ever offered to her by anyone in medical authority as to the risks that a refusal to have a blood transfusion presented to her health indeed to her life . |
| 5 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 6 | Jesus of Nazareth was a man whose divine authority was clearly proven to you by all the miracles and wonders which God performed through him . |
| 7 | But at least , he would console himself , I was n't driven to it by ideology , by politics , religion or prejudice . |
| 8 | Thirdly , the Abbe Gerard apparently drowned after drinking claret which was undoubtedly sent to him by Dacourt , though taken down to the village probably by his secretary , Master Millet . |
| 9 | Analogy I used in my book , was actually suggested to me by , although this is a ana a kind of metaphor that , that her father was very fond of . |