Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 2 | Some of them are taken by instrumentation but others are eye observations . |
| 3 | I am struck by anxiety . |
| 4 | I am a prisoner of conscience , I am named by Amnesty . ’ |
| 5 | The myriads of Mafia to which I am linked by marriage had been alerted . |
| 6 | I can hear the dogs panting ahead and occasionally I am flurried by snow kicked up from a runner . |
| 7 | Whenever I am assailed by unhappiness , I know that I am in the mundane , for in the transcendent there is no unhappiness . |
| 8 | Campese , I am told by journalist Paolo Catella , is having tantrums . |
| 9 | I have just uttered the words ‘ May I be struck by lightning this minute ’ . |
| 10 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 11 | I 'm assured by Program Solutions that the problem is being looked into , and that revised drivers will be made available as soon as possible , but even without that mode , this card is a winner . |
| 12 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 13 | I 'm talking by ton , yeah . |
| 14 | Besides , I 'm going by bike . |
| 15 | Though I 'm cautions by nature and habit , I have a temper that can flare up if I 'm rubbed the wrong way . |
| 16 | The only thing miraculous about my hypothetical story is the coincidence between my being struck by lightning and my verbal invocation of the disaster . |
| 17 | The probability of my being struck by lightning in any one minute of my life is perhaps 1 in 10 million as a conservative estimate . |
| 18 | We ourselves were to travel by train . |
| 19 | Before my fall , when I was a great man , I was tempted by meat and wine , and by the luxuries my position brought me . |
| 20 | I was hit by joyride car , says soldier |
| 21 | I tried to believe there were things beyond possession , greater belonging , greater satisfaction , but I was tied by resentment , self-pity and a mad belief that the past could be resuscitated . |
| 22 | Also at times I was overcome by tiredness , really knackered . |
| 23 | Of course , I was fascinated by Lust , a young girl with long , golden hair , breasts like ripe melons , and long , white , slender legs . |
| 24 | ‘ I was operating by instinct rather than intellect , ’ she informed him primly . |
| 25 | For Christmas 1943 I was asked by Air India to broadcast a Christmas message to Christians in Southeast Asia , which I was glad to do , having our Christian friends of different races in Burma much in mind . |
| 26 | Perchance I was speaking by telephone this afternoon to a building contractor who specialises in this type of work . |
| 27 | For the first time in my career , I was assailed by doubt . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I was surrounded by love . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , I was surrounded by music from birth , practically . |
| 30 | I was surrounded by blackness and silence . |