Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv prt] by an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 2 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 3 | There were no accidents unless you count ‘ Survival ’ wildlife cameraman Dieter Plage being run down by an enraged tusker who passed right over him as he lay on the ground . |
| 4 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |
| 5 | But if you go down to the woods today you wo n't get a big surprise , because as boars have a tendency to charge at people they 're being kept in by an electric fence . |
| 6 | It is also being ushered in by an unusual duo : contracting credit and falling interest rates . |
| 7 | He explained the set-up ; Duncan and I were to pull an Aspel-laden rickshaw through the busy streets of Charing Cross — ignoring the irate rush-hour traffic , which was being held up by an army of floor assistants — to the steps of Charing Cross underground station . |