Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] by a " in BNC.
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1 | Adding this in and multiplying by a factor of 2 produces the delay for the round trip Earth Venus-Earth : . |
2 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
3 | A boy knocked down and killed by a car near Denton Burn , Newcastle , was named yesterday as Jonathon Kelly , 12 , of Southview , West Denton . |
4 | The pivotal notion of Spandau prison being pulled down and replaced by a supermarket was one which greatly excited Brenton , signifying at a stroke both Western Europe 's descent into cynical consumerism and the wiping out of history . |
5 | At the same time Gwalia House was closed down and replaced by a quaint shop in the historic market town of Shrewsbury . |
6 | He was knocked down and injured by a horse when the rider lost control while riding too fast . |
7 | It 's an English-built rocker 's tool finished in cellulose all over and powered by a combination of a Seymour Duncan SSL-1 , a DiMarzio Fred and a DiMarzio PAF Pro . |
8 | But we shall never know the results of that experiment because the very next week he was run over and killed by a bus erm |
9 | On May 20-22 up to 3,000 squatters in Arak , western Iran , the second largest industrial city , had burnt similar buildings after a boy was run over and killed by a municipal truck . |
10 | When one friend was being picked on and hacked by a bullying and much bigger opponent , Burton laid the bully out ; when the referee was not looking , of course . |
11 | Without that vision , you can guarantee that every single environmental and animal welfare organisation will be bought off and co-opted by a system that does not care a jot about the natural world and its creatures . |
12 | It had been decided in July 1944 that the Cabinet Committee on post-War Civil Aviation should be wound up and replaced by a Minister responsible specifically for this area of policy . |
13 | Of these , five were killed by coyotes , which catch ferrets in the open , and one was dug out and killed by a badger . |
14 | The surrounding buildings were two-storeyed , the upper built out and supported by a series of arched cloisters which every evening were thick with alpaca jerseys , rugs , cheap jewellery , bargain hunters and cloying money-changers . |
15 | These should be carried out and applied by a properly trained multidisciplinary team . |