Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 2 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 3 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 4 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 5 | This group , as well as the anti-nuclear movement itself , was strongly influenced by members of Revolutionary Struggle , an extreme left-wing group which mixed neo-Marxist economic analysis with traditional republican ideology and was strongly influenced itself by the revolutionary movement in Italy and , to a lesser extent , France , at the time . |
| 6 | Leith had almost finished her second course when , quite happy to let Travis talk away , she suddenly wondered , as he began to get repetitive , if she was indeed helping him by letting him talk so much on the same theme . |
| 7 | She was very sorry for her mistake and was therefore punishing herself by agreeing to marry him . |