Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] her by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Her parents only came to appreciate the impact the plaintiff had made on others before her accident from the tributes that were paid to her by outsiders of the family during the months the plaintiff was in a coma at Addenbrookes . |
| 5 | A Mary Queen of Scots coin was given to her by well-wisher Jessie Brown , 40 , of South Carntyne , Glasgow . |
| 6 | No further mention was made of her by Biff or Mother Bombie . |
| 7 | She left with the best wishes of all her colleagues — plus a colour TV which was presented to her by Tom Gorrie , Manager , Taurus . |
| 8 | The cheque was presented to her by Ian Sutherland , Director , Commercial Banking Services . |
| 9 | Isobel 's clock was presented to her by Bill Service , Personnel Manager , and is inscribed with ‘ Twenty Five Years Service Douglas Reyburn & Co . |
| 10 | I do n't think it was dictated to her by John Wesley . |
| 11 | He was driven towards her by the heat in his blood . |
| 12 | Word of the arrival in London of the new king was brought to her by Prince Richard . |
| 13 | ‘ She knew nothing about any document she was to sign until it was brought to her by her husband . |
| 14 | Entitled The Industrious Muse : Narrativity and Contradiction in the Industrial Novel ( the title was foisted on her by the publishers , the subtitle was her own ) it received enthusiastic if sparse reviews , and the publishers commissioned another book provisionally entitled Domestic Angels and Unfortunate Females : Woman as Sign and Commodity in Victorian Fiction . |
| 15 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 16 | A love of art was kindled in her by a Dominican priest in the 1930s , and indeed , a spiritual and moral consciousness beyond the usual lip-service to the ‘ otherness ’ of creative endeavour has always informed her involvement in art . |
| 17 | The celebrations passed off peacefully amid an unprecedented level of security , although the Queen 's speech was disrupted by Maori hecklers , and a wet T-shirt was thrown at her by a woman who was later charged with disorderly conduct . |
| 18 | It was snatched from her by a woman without heart or conscience , a woman driven by greed . |
| 19 | The plaintiff drank the ginger beer , and when a second glass was poured for her by her friend a decomposing snail which had been in the bottle floated out . |
| 20 | The back door was barred to her by the people she would have to pass in the kitchen . |
| 21 | His voluminous political correspondence was purchased from her by Peel 's literary executors , the fifth Earl Stanhope and Edward , Viscount Cardwell [ qq.v. ] , and destroyed except for the two volumes incorporated in the Peel papers , now in the British Library , and letters of his own retained by Lord Stanhope . |
| 22 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |