Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] he by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most of the men around the Shah were tied to him by fear , by devotion or by the tentacles of corruption . |
| 6 | Honorary degrees were conferred on him by Oxford ( 1957 ) , Natal ( 1962 ) , and Edinburgh ( 1974 ) . |
| 7 | The loud calls for the author , by a curious irony , were taken for him by the U.S. ambassador . |
| 8 | These were delivered to him by DHL , the international courier company , in shipments containing ten packets of ten unsigned $100 cheques . |
| 9 | Whatever the subsequent rationalisations , all decisions were forced upon him by shortage of cash . |
| 10 | There were great privations in post-war England , of course , and parcels of groceries and other rationed foods were dispatched to him by American friends well into the early Fifties . |
| 11 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 12 | Incidentally , the comedian Des O'Connor owns a guitar which was given to him by Holly , while Buddy was on tour in the UK . |
| 13 | claimed that his power was given to him by god , but everyone knew that the throne had been seized by his father . |
| 14 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 15 | He handed it across to the Colonel who noticed with some satisfaction that it was addressed to him by name and not merely as commanding officer . |
| 16 | He shook his coat outside and it was carried before him by Stephen Holly along the corridor that led into the backroom where a windowed coke boiler blazed and the coat was draped across a fender . |
| 17 | The sentence of death was imposed on him by Ayatollah Khomeini for alleged blasphemy in his book The Satanic Verses . |
| 18 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 19 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 20 | The Emperor 's armour was made for him by Dwarf smiths and incorporates some of the actual armour worn by Magnus the Pious at the battle of Kislev . |
| 21 | The situation was saved for him by Mrs Carver 's crying , ‘ Well , there it is ! |
| 22 | His reward — a £200 cheque , an engraved paperweight and a certificate — was presented to him by Colonel Douglas Spratt , President of the Edinburgh branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing at a special students ‘ evening . |
| 23 | To celebrate the occasion , an inscribed watch was presented to him by Ralph Ellis , Group Managing Director and John Stewart , Managing Director of Lyles . |
| 24 | Graham has been with the company for 25 years and to mark the occasion of his first quarter century achievement , an inscribed watch was presented to him by Ralph Ellis , Chief Executive of Stoddard Sekers International Plc . |
| 25 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 26 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 27 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 28 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 29 | The script was handed to him by Casper Wrede , a director friend from the Royal Exchange who directed him on screen in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . |
| 30 | Dalziel 's car was waiting for him by the exit . |