Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 2 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 3 | He was subsequently invited home to dinner by the Daltons . |
| 4 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 5 | These 14th Century tales are brought vividly to life by the latest audio-visual technology and the voices of the following celebrities : Roy Kinnear , Prunella Scales , Robert Powell , Ronald Pickup , Bernard Cribbins and Geoffrey Banks . |
| 6 | Despite a firm diagnosis being given , 25 ( 33% ) patients were referred again to hospital by their general practitioner . |
| 7 | The revellers in the foyer , who included some of the more anxious in decorous nightwear , were shooed upstairs to bed by Alastair Goodlad , once the Party 's deputy Chief Whip , whose butlerian rotundity made him quite admirably suited to the task . |