Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to overcome the problems of a mechanism becoming inadvertently disassembled by component changes , the development of an automated associative procedure was considered . |
| 2 | The United defence was caught flat footed by the free kick and Cross was simply too strong ; too determined to be stopped . |
| 3 | I am so particularly pleased with these , that I should feel much gratified by possessing a duplicate copy of each . |
| 4 | Effectively the police budget only grew by 5.4 in 1991-92 over the previous year , in the face of inflation and pay awards running at 9.5 . ’ |
| 5 | It 's also ironic , I guess , that as our hired mini-bus travels through Harlem , the Belfast-bred trio should feel so intimidated by the possibility of violence . |
| 6 | Why did he always feel so intimidated by Viola Machin ? |
| 7 | And then , just when people were looking genuinely shocked by what she 'd said — remember that this man , who we all knew , was still sitting there with the blood just washed off his face , as if to remind us that she was n't joking — then she said , do n't be scared Boys . |
| 8 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
| 9 | Consider how you would interpret the utterance We 'll land here said by one astronaut to another , on earth , as they study a map of the moon . |
| 10 | Certainly , he can not possibly have felt seriously menaced by rumours of a mystical or spiritual figure — a prophet or a teacher of the kind in which the Holy Land at the time abounded . |
| 11 | Some , encouraged by the EOC have offered Women into Accounting , Women into Management and Women into Public Life courses , aimed at women trying to break into areas of employment and influence usually monopolised by men . |
| 12 | It 's no good just using simple words to describe each step in that argument , if the whole argument gets so convoluted by the time you finish the listener thought , ‘ Well , I understood the bits , but I did n't understand the whole . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In the circumstances , although I could have wished he 'd delayed his visit another hour or so , the edge of my temper had become somewhat dulled by recent events . |
| 14 | Some researchers had become so daunted by the devious nature of the virus , which can hide within the cells of the body , that they felt a vaccine would be impossible . |
| 15 | In some areas of Britain local voluntary organizations , or perhaps one of the arms of the public sector services , have become so disheartened by the lack of commitment and enthusiasm on the part of local psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses for developing a new style of service away from their traditional hospital base that they have decided to go ahead and develop a new service without any support from the consultants and hospital staff . |
| 16 | His lyrical images get more convoluted by ‘ Bizarro ’ , with the exception of ‘ Brassneck ’ . |
| 17 | Staff in such hospitals have become increasingly demoralized by criticism and standards have easily declined as a result . |
| 18 | Samways made a vital interception to snatch the ball off Taylor 's foot and in the 71st minute Thomas hammered the ball inches wide from a Connolly pass cleverly dummied by substitute Steve Watkin . |
| 19 | ‘ I still feel somewhat gobsmacked by the way he appointed me . |
| 20 | It has sometimes been suggested that if you feel easily intimidated by an interviewer , and therefore are paralysed by nerves , you should imagine him ? her in a ludicrous situation , such as sitting in the Albert Hall with no clothes on . |
| 21 | Slim women — or those who have successfully been on a diet — often feel deeply disheartened by the fact that diet and exercise alone do not seem to improve these problem areas . |
| 22 | She felt suddenly dirtied by death , ashamed of the knowledge she had gained when she witnessed the cessation of breathing that marked the end of her parents ' lives , sad and sullied by the separations she had lived through . |
| 23 | He feels personally vindicated by the demise of all imperial adventures , the defeat of fascism and the disproof of the fundamental tenets of apartheid . |
| 24 | We can not know — and she was by this time fifty-eight years old to Jack 's thirty-three — whether she felt personally slighted by the change . |
| 25 | Quite a few of the ‘ cricket is boring ’ brigade of know-alls came to may house for Sunday tea , and went away entranced by a brilliant finish involving the last-minute heroics of a David Bairstow or an Eddie Barlow . |
| 26 | I felt really intimidated by him . |
| 27 | No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question . |
| 28 | And so if we look at what happened generally between nineteen seventy eight and nineteen eighty two the general picture is that the number of total holidays taken actually fell by three percent . |
| 29 | I think the idea of taking a fox and having it ripped apart legitimized by our society is a bad message to pass onto our children ! |
| 30 | so I tap on the window , had just gone past and I was just about to go in his room , you know , cos he 's standing there and I just tapped on the window come outside Nick had just walked by and Rick and were talking you know it 's not like the dead of night and everything 's quiet |