Example sentences of "they were [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were seated by one of the windows , and Paige was glad she had a head for heights . |
| 2 | The doctors have recently agreed not to buy women 's eggs anymore after they were exposed by two feminist journalists whom they threatened to take to court for libel . |
| 3 | In the following year they were replaced by five more powerful turbines and a larger steam engine . |
| 4 | In addition , whilst Falangists Arrese and Girón de Velasco were ousted respectively from the Party Secretariat and the Ministry of Labour , they were replaced by two men who were also Falangists but who , by contrast , were known to be more moderate and flexible in their views than their predecessors . |
| 5 | Less than an hour later , they were followed by C-130 transport planes with food for starving Somalis . |
| 6 | Few excuses can be offered for the England batsmen 's failure to pile up runs both here and in the first Test at Calcutta , where they were beaten by eight wickets . |
| 7 | They were offset by 6s at the long eleventh and seventeenth , the first from three putts and the second the result of a flyer with his wedge . |
| 8 | They were supported by two battalions of paratroops and other crack forces . |
| 9 | They were supported by 1,000 federal law enforcement officers , special weapons teams , and riot police from the border patrol , the prison service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) . |
| 10 | They were mobbed by 150 children from three schools as a clash between a handful of pupils turned into a near riot . |
| 11 | In the next 10 days they were joined by hundreds of unemployed youths who looted shops , damaged cars and demanded money from passers-by . |
| 12 | They were joined by hundreds of the unemployed who accused the Endara government of being more concerned with US free market policies and US military objectives than the plight of most Panamanians . |
| 13 | The Admiralty had dispatched two battlecruisers — Invincible and Inflexible — to the south Atlantic , where they were joined by six light cruisers . |
| 14 | They were joined by 700 Spanish soldiers on Oct. 26 . |
| 15 | From 1940 they were joined by thousands of refugees who were keen to serve in some capacity , however lowly , and equally keen to escape internment . |
| 16 | His wife died a year later ; they were survived by five of their twelve children . |
| 17 | When they reached the Royal Pavilion , ‘ the prettiest building in England ’ , they were stopped by two constables . |
| 18 | French susceptibilities over sovereignty had not vet developed to the extent that they were to do by 1294 . |
| 19 | They were plucked by two thirds to little more than £2 million . |
| 20 | He and his 13 year old friend Andre Leota were playing when they were assaulted by three men . |
| 21 | After five minutes the decision was made for them : they were jumped by six D-Vs which came dropping out of a stretch of dirty cloud . |
| 22 | They were thrashed by six wickets in the final Texaco trophy one day international at Old Trafford . |
| 23 | They were met by two uniformed officers , Pope and Knight , and then whisked off to Valpy Street where Chief Constable Thomas Burrows outlined the case . |
| 24 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 25 | The first day of '92 brought defeat at Gillingham ; they were sunk by two goals in two minutes . |
| 26 | If not quite ‘ that elderly British pair ’ as they were described by one TV station , they were older than the other writers and this sometimes had its benefits . |
| 27 | But when they arrived to start pulling down the George hotel at Nailsworth in Gloucestershire , they were confronted by two hundred angry protesters . |
| 28 | An NOP poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Tories 13 points behind Labour , while a Mori poll in The Sunday Times indicated they were trailing by 10 points . |
| 29 | And that 's about it from Talking Sport this evening , the headlines ; Oxford United take a point in a dramatic comeback at Molyneux , they were trailing by three goals to one with four minutes left . |
| 30 | What happened next is uncertain , but at some point — either after they had completed their own private count , or after the first vote — the Zuwaya protested to the commission that they were outnumbered by four votes ( 1261 to 1257 ) because the Magharba had infiltrated voters from the outlying districts of Bishr and Marada . |