Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hinde House was a fairly typical school in that there had been a recognition of the need to relate to the ‘ World of Work ’ , ‘ Employers ’ , ‘ Further and Higher Education ’ , ‘ Preparation for Adult Life ’ and many of the other banner headings which at different times were placed before us by non-school organisations . |
| 2 | Lady Londonderry was greatly admired at the Russian Court and some of the Londonderry family jewels — the Down Diamonds and the parure and cross were given to her by the Russian Emperor Alexander I. |
| 3 | As many teachers were unable to attend the Annual General Meeting of the Society when formal thanks were given and a presentation made to Hilary Weedon on the completion of her four year term of office as Chairman of the Executive Committee special thanks were given to her by Betty Syrett on behalf of the teachers . |
| 4 | The oranges were given to him by Mr. Singleton of Houghton 's … he realised in Supt. Learmont 's office that the people he received them from might not have the right to give them . |
| 5 | We 're selling that with all the other medals some of which were British campaign medals , some were given to him by countries like Poland because of his special friendship or good deeds |
| 6 | Here are two exercises that were given to me by ANDY WATSON and TREFOR OWEN , part-time tutors at Leeds College of Music . |
| 7 | They are documents of all sorts which were given to me by my father or which I found among his papers after his death in 1968 . |
| 8 | ‘ These papers were given to me by Sir Charles Baskerville , ’ said Dr Mortimer . |
| 9 | Well that , it speak the truth they were given to me by June , who 's very into that sort of thing and prescribed them for Simon and in fact has had to give him a few more now because he 's had his driving test cancelled . |
| 10 | ‘ You have some papers , Fagin , ’ said Mr Brownlow quietly , ‘ which were given to you by Monks to look after . ’ |
| 11 | Legend has it that the ‘ eyes ’ or ‘ spectacles ’ on the rear of the Cobra 's hood were given to it by Guatama the Buddha as protection against the attacks of Garuda the Eagle , arch enemy of the Cobras . |
| 12 | The Law Reform Committee , a standing body with a Secretary provided by the Lord Chancellor 's Office , functioned on a part-time basis producing reports on those aspects of the civil law as were referred to it by Ministers . |
| 13 | Early workers with X-rays , who were exposed to what by modern standards are horrifying doses , developed cancers at an alarming rate . |
| 14 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 15 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 16 | Your poems were torn from me by violence ; |
| 17 | Most of the submissions which were addressed to us by Mr. Persaud took matters no further . |
| 18 | These were the sort of respondents who nicknamed the fieldworker ‘ Tell her Nothin ’ and ‘ Nosebag ’ , and tried to assert informal checks on colleagues who were conversing with her by reminding them of the notepad and that she ‘ writes everything down ’ . |
| 19 | The Naval and General Staff cases were made for them by Sandys ’ tour of the Mediterranean , Middle East , and East Africa in July 1957 , and of the Far East in August . |
| 20 | But while he argues for general connections between the rites , incidentally ignoring the many repudiations of Gnosticism that were made of it by early Christian leaders , his viewpoint is much more balanced than Scobie 's . ) |
| 21 | Some relatively soft Egyptian alabaster was imported and at least forty vases were made from it by Minoan craftsmen . |
| 22 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 23 | A wide selection of mustards were supplied to us by Arran Provisions , Colman 's and Burnham Mustards |
| 24 | They were handed to him by a tiny nut-brown man in a red fez , who also sold little packets of sugared almonds and pistachios . |
| 25 | Dyer was eventually censured by a committee of inquiry , but substantial sums were raised for him by public subscription and he was adulated in the press , the House of Commons , and — especially — the House of Lords . |
| 26 | Most of the men around the Shah were tied to him by fear , by devotion or by the tentacles of corruption . |
| 27 | The first recorded observations of Castle Drachenfels , the accursed house of hell , were brought to us by Oskar Lefebvre and Jean-Pierre Lafontaine of the city of Quenelles in the year 184 ( Imperial Calendar ) . |
| 28 | ‘ But I would think you know that , they were introduced to me by your partner , General Roquelaure . ’ |
| 29 | On the one hand , while two-thirds of the females were introduced to heroin by their male partner , that is , husband or boyfriend , none of the males were introduced to it by their female partner . |
| 30 | Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Oxford ( 1957 ) , Natal ( 1962 ) , and Edinburgh ( 1974 ) . |