Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [verb] by the " in BNC.

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1 The next few years saw her and Ross out with this band of fun boaters and future rodeo aficionados though Lesley remembers having spent much of these early years bobbing about in the boils on the edge of the rough stuff , a result of lack of confidence in her own ability and perhaps not being pushed to perform by the guys in the group as much as they would each other .
2 By the end of the eighteenth century ready-made coffins were being supplied lined by the manufacturers but one had to purchase shrouds and winding-sheets separately .
3 They are not going to do anything to the rights of way in spite of what they are being asked to do by the
4 From then on , anything that loiters in front of the entrance runs a risk of being knocked flying by the owner of the den exiting at high speed .
5 The turbulence is being kept going by the working of this against the mean velocity gradient .
6 It is an even wilder dream to imagine that it would get such a majority that it could escape from being held to ransom by the 25 Members who signed the amendment .
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