Example sentences of "[adv prt] by [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been swept along by Tommy 's drunken madness . |
| 32 | Bayezid II was won over by Mueyyedzade 's arguments and not only appointed Kemalpasazade to the Taslik medrese but also charged him with writing a history of the Ottoman dynasty in Turkish to serve as a companion piece to that being written in Persian by Idris Bitlisi |
| 33 | Before that , however , in 1958 , the year the Albion brewery celebrated its 150th anniversary , Mann Crossman and Paulin had been taken over by Watney 's . |
| 34 | Their premises at Church Wharf were taken over by Gwynne 's , an engineering firm , then making pumps , also the ‘ Albert ’ car . |
| 35 | It was , more accurately , a wood-built open-air refreshment centre and it was taken over by Europe 's supporters . |
| 36 | To give it a chance of success , some French troops had to be withdrawn from south of the Somme and their lines taken over by Haig 's men , disrupting his own long-planned attack in Flanders . |
| 37 | It was not only Sir Henry Norris who was won over by Chapman 's infectious optimism . |
| 38 | At the date of this book , 1569 , the press had been taken over by Aldus 's youngest son , Paulus . |
| 39 | The man 's too bowled over by Dysart 's politics to be of the slightest — ’ |
| 40 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 41 | FINANCIERS are pushing for Alan Bond 's highly geared media group to be taken over by Australia 's richest man , Mr Kerry Packer , and some leading institutions . |
| 42 | Clive Allen missed one great chance six minutes before half-time when his snap shot from inside the box , following a superb pass by Julian Dicks , was brilliantly tipped over by Bees ' keeper Graham Benstead . |
| 43 | Bowled over by Vail 's powder paradise |
| 44 | The long struggle by popes and bishops for celibacy among the clergy was not over by Innocent 's pontificate . |
| 45 | He later asked Scott to design a suburb of working-class housing , known as Akroydon , near Halifax , which was eventually taken over by Scott 's former pupil W. H. Crossland . |
| 46 | And the 66-year-old London financier had harsh words also for the MCC hierarchy who are complaining about the £17,000 cost of organising the special general meeting , pushed through by Tuesday 's 108-3 vote at Lord 's . |
| 47 | Zeneca , a new drugs firm spun off by Britain 's ICI , is about to make a £1.3 billion ( $1 billion ) rights issue . |
| 48 | Four of the five remaining were auctioned off by Sotheby 's , two going to Cypriot businessman Savvas Constantinides ( who paid £110,000 for the two and who plans an aviation museum in either Pathos or Nicosia ) and two ( WR963 and WL790 ) are now in Coventry , owned by the Shackleton Preservation Society . |
| 49 | Vologsky was too deeply enmeshed now to be put off by Kirov 's vague evasions . |
| 50 | When they were not put off by Marcus 's rigid unfocussed stare . |
| 51 | The 1985 demonstrations were triggered off by Japan 's intention to commemorate the ‘ Mukden Incident ’ of 1931 , which marked the beginning of their annexation of north-east China . |
| 52 | The Software Foundation had originally planned to do the work internally , after none of its members or founders volunteered , scared off by IBM 's experience of integrating the Management Environment 's companion piece DCE , the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 53 | OSF had originally planned to do the work internally , after none of its members or founders volunteered , scared off by IBM 's experience integrating DME 's companion piece DCE , the Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 54 | Too many potential Tory voters were scared off by Heath 's dangerous practice of confrontation , and also bewildered by the effective abandonment of the brave ‘ Selsdon ’ ideals in other respects . |
| 55 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ he shrieked , the screams cut off by Farrell 's free hand . |
| 56 | Ramsey , formerly put off by Eden 's drawl , was at first put off by Macmillan 's blear-eyed appearance and puffy eyes . |
| 57 | MARK HATELEY breathed life into Rangers ' European Cup challenge last night , just as their hopes seemed to have been killed off by Marseille 's foreign legion . |
| 58 | Ramsey , formerly put off by Eden 's drawl , was at first put off by Macmillan 's blear-eyed appearance and puffy eyes . |
| 59 | Some hoping to escape evidently pretended to lie dead , ‘ like rabbits ’ , but sooner or later lost their nerve and bounded up to regain their trenches , only to be picked off by Campana 's men , who found the spectacle rather diverting . |
| 60 | If the actual performance of liege homage could be staved off by Henry 's successors until the territorial clauses of the 1259 treaty were properly implemented , then it could be claimed that the duke was acting as defacto sovereign in his duchy until such time as the agreement was fulfilled . |