Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by she [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beatrix Potter 's own sketches of the city were used by her in her books . |
| 2 | People were squeezing by her in the general drift to get a look at him , and she let herself go with the crowd a little in order to see how he was doing . |
| 3 | The self-control she exercised when awake was abandoned by her in sleep , her body breaking loose to admit her confusion . |
| 4 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 5 | And so erm , it was n't as though these children ran across an open zebra crossing and she could see the children travelling er , walking or running all the way across the er er er er the pedestrian crossing the two children one was estimated by her to be about six years old , and the one who was actually knocked down was estimated by her to be about er , nine years old and she was n't travelling at any significant speed at all , she was travelling slowly because of the amount of traffic and she says that er the first she saw them was erm , appearing from the behind a car and dashing across the front of her car , and in fact , it was only the the the one who ran first the the older of the two children that she actually hit , she hit hit her with the near side front of er of her vehicle . |
| 6 | The horror of the near nervous breakdown she suffered soon after launching her recording career , as she struggled to combine acting with singing , was taken by her as a warning to calm down . |
| 7 | The discovery of her father 's history of abuse is not only a personal tragedy to Miss X. Resale of the family home means she has missed out financially because the house , valued at £32,500 , was purchased by her for only £14,625 after a standard 55 per cent discount was made . |