Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 2 | Although she was treated by a vet , it was to no avail . |
| 3 | HOLDING COURT : Suzanne revealing that she was kissed by a judge |
| 4 | She was pushed into a big office where she was faced by a rather handsome Obersturmfuhrer . |
| 5 | She was recognized by a grand national assembly at Scone as heiress to the throne . |
| 6 | This was perceptive and she was rewarded by a brief display of her daughter 's old impulsiveness , Sally-Anne kissing her mother fervently on the cheek before they joined Papa in the drawing-room . |
| 7 | She was niggled by a lingering doubt that she might have played her cards badly . |
| 8 | Their mother Audrey , who lived with her husband Corpral William Marshall at the barracks , said she was alerted by a kitten crying . |
| 9 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 10 | In early June 1988 , she was asked by a director how she had known to put so many clients into a particular Irish stock , just before the price soared on takeover bids . |
| 11 | The phone rang on and on , but just as she was about to give up she was answered by a sleepy female voice . |
| 12 | Yet she was gripped by a paralysis born of her long-standing mistrust of him . |
| 13 | Even as she spoke she was gripped by a niggling feeling of premonition . |
| 14 | In Lisburn , a 70 year old woman died after she was struck by a car at Queens Road shortly after noon . |
| 15 | Stacey Garland from High Gill Road , Nunthorpe , Middlesbrough , who was in Sussex visiting her grandfather , was crossing the A283 road at Upper Beeding , Sussex , when she was struck by a Mercedes car . |
| 16 | The Court of Session was told that Mrs Clark was crossing with the ‘ green man ’ when she was struck by a Vauxhall Astra driven by PC Roderick Cooper . |
| 17 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 18 | As memory returned she was hit by a depression close to despair , the earlier feeling of security completely vanished . |
| 19 | Stacey Garland , of High Gill Road , Nunthorpe , was visiting her grandfather when she was hit by a Mercedes car last week on the A283 at Upper Beeding . |
| 20 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 21 | Her owner , Alan Ayres , claimed she was hit by a submarine , but the Ministry of Defence denies this . |
| 22 | Barrister Deborah Gould , of Oxton , Wirral , was 8 months pregnant when she was hit by a Nissan Micra which swerved into her path as she was out driving her Ford Escort last month . |
| 23 | She was fuelled by a frenetic energy which spoke to Katherine of danger . |
| 24 | Over a period of time she was seen by a number of psychotherapists and psychologists who adopted differing approaches to her varied problems . |
| 25 | Alter notifying our Commander , we chugged over in our motor boat to find she was crewed by a schoolmaster and several of his senior boys . |
| 26 | She was dazzled by a set of headlights as a Volkswagen Golf swerved to avoid her , music blaring out of the open windows . |
| 27 | ‘ Of course I 'll take you , ’ Fabia replied without hesitation , and was about to add that she would be on the same flight with her when she was halted by a change in Cara 's expression . |
| 28 | A Nairobi lawyer , Martha Njoka , claimed that she was assaulted by a special branch superintendent when she went to a police station to trace Imanyara . |
| 29 | A girl needed eighteen stitches to her face after she was savaged by a dog . |
| 30 | Next day she was elected by a handsome majority , and I believed the Scottish Home Rule movement to be on its way . |