Example sentences of "i [was/were] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You know , I sometimes feel as if you and I were connected by a string tying our two hearts together , and if you went to Ireland , I think that string might break and I might bleed to death . ’ |
| 2 | Marius and I were chosen by the rest of the group to finish off punishing him . |
| 3 | A few years back I was invited by the Church of England to be an ecumenical guest at a consultation , held at Ely , on the charismatic renewal movement . |
| 4 | I was invited by the owners of a struggling estate in Bardez province to look around their 300-year-old house . |
| 5 | Because I must have been noticed , I was invited by the families to play in mixed doubles . |
| 6 | After the shock , I was warmed by the idea that the visitor was Jesus or an angel , and then terrified by the thought that it was an omen of my death . |
| 7 | The SPAR system was developed at Cambridge University Computer Laboratory while I was supported by the British Library and King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 8 | I was grabbed by the lapels of my dressing gown and pinned against the wall . |
| 9 | This could be made in either double jacquard or Fair Isle and I was inspired by a sweater in very subtle colours worn by Iris Bishop ( not for once , one of her own creations ! ) . |
| 10 | Having kept tropical marines for a number of years , I was inspired by an article in an old fish keeping magazine , to keep native marines . |
| 11 | And I was inspired by the size of the contribution they were clearly destined to make . |
| 12 | I did n't buy any masks , but I was tempted by the matching two-foot-high figurines of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya . |
| 13 | If ever I was tempted by the seductive stasis of an eidetic image , I punctured its reflecting skin with a dart and tore it away to reveal the structure of habit below . |
| 14 | I had no idea how much there was in there , but I reckoned it was probably what I was owed by the Scamp family plus a few expenses . |
| 15 | Pangs of conscience , and ache of loneliness apart , I found that I was stimulated by the challenge of finding my way about this great and beautiful city , and by having to communicate — to try to speak French quickly enough to make actual conversation possible . |
| 16 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |
| 17 | I was lingering near the assembled bottles , wondering who on earth could have brought the Bourgueil , when I was joined by the man I had seen stepping out of the BMW . |
| 18 | The cast was rather good , featuring Bill Nighy and his floppy blond hair and a very svelte-looking Charlotte Cornwell , though I was irritated by the unsympathetic little-and-large duo at the centre , with Janet McTeer towering above the tubby little Imelda Staunton ( as I recall , the heroine of the book hunted alone ) . |
| 19 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 20 | When I was hit by a drunk driver in 1980 , crossing the road in Los Angeles . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ My insurance company will never believe I was hit by a flying cow . ’ |
| 22 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |
| 24 | I was moved by the peace of him , the innocence of his head , the warm coil of his drugged limbs . |
| 25 | I was moved by the account , seeing resemblances between the experience of these women , dead many thousands of years before , and women alive now who weep over men whose love they think is dead but try to revive with their tears . |
| 26 | She thought I was moved by the kindness of the malais ! |
| 27 | Soon I was converted by the precision and subtlety , and saw that she wrote better than anyone else . |
| 28 | Anticipating the harsh lighting in our room , Leslie had brought with him some candles , and I was touched by the romantic tenderness of the gesture . |
| 29 | I was touched by the good wishes of the crew when I went ashore . |
| 30 | Before I could examine them , I was buffeted by a gust of wind and rain . |