Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] by [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
| 2 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 3 | How did young Bruce become Uncle Bruce , to use the saucy sobriquet given me by my ever ebullient fellow presenter Richard Wyatt . |
| 4 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
| 5 | In one of his earliest pamphlets , called The Reason of Church Government , he said this about himself : ‘ After I had for my first years , by the ceaseless diligence and care of my father , whom God recompense , been exercised to the tongues and some sciences as my age would suffer , by sundry masters and teachers , both at home and at the schools , it was found that whether ought was imposed me by them that had the overlooking , or be taken to of mine own choice in English or other tongue , prosing or versing but chiefly by this latter , style by certain vital signs it had was likely to live . |
| 6 | Lorton had insisted that they both took part in the burglary , when he could easily have done it by himself |
| 7 | we would of done it by ourself sorted out . |
| 8 | And the land shown me by my guides , my deliverers , how painterly it was , the buildings of earthen crockery , the stone variegated like pork brawn in the mild breath of dusk . |
| 9 | These people [ the Brazilian Indians ] are wild [ sauvage ] in the same way as we say that fruits are wild , when nature has produced them by herself in her ordinary way … they are still very close to their original simplicity … they are still governed by natural laws and very little corrupted by our own " .1 |
| 10 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 11 | Two others were offered it by their usual dealer . |
| 12 | If , on the other hand , God should have ordained for me thus , miserable and wretched as I am , and should have called me by His grace to sit solitary and serve him in that manner , as he deigns to grant to me , shall I not persevere in that calling ? |
| 13 | Called her by her alias . |
| 14 | One , she felt , was taking advantage of Bernard and her by knowing about the business — he had requested some shares in the company , which she considered an outrageous request ; another had called her by her Christian name which was equally unacceptable . |
| 15 | And he had called her by her full Greek name too , as if to remind her that he knew it . |
| 16 | And there was some mystery about her because the kids ' names unless my mother always called her by her , by her name before she was married , but she always called her , and yet the boys was . |
| 17 | And , fundamentally , Braque 's painting is much more thoughtful and reasoned ; while the Demoiselles must have excited him by its immediacy and directness , it also posed for Braque various pictorial problems . |
| 18 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 19 | She had called him by his name — a thing she had so far refused to do . |
| 20 | Noverre distinguished his dancers by their particular physiques and personalities , whereas Weaver had judged them by their ability to act . |
| 21 | He must never know how successful his demonstration had been , how much he had hurt her by his sudden rejection . |
| 22 | The report included his ( named ) niece 's account that Fairley had terrified her by his sexual advances to her in a car . |
| 23 | At the time of the Westerfield poisonings he had sometimes been a difficult man to agree with , and he 'd more than once annoyed her by his attitude . |
| 24 | The fact that she has fought back to the level that she has now attained is a tribute to the loving care , encouragement and inspiration given her by her parents . |
| 25 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 26 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 27 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |
| 28 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 29 | Christ is the Bridegroom ; the Church is his bride , whom he loves because he has gained her by his blood . |
| 30 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |