Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy , encouraged by my mother , I became fascinated by the mass of mostly unsorted papers lying in the cellars at Plas Newydd . |
| 2 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 3 | I became fascinated by the variety of ways . |
| 4 | We did n't see any whales , sharks , or polar bears underwater , but I became fascinated by the cast of characters which made up the food chain in these waters . |
| 5 | Whilst at college I became intrigued by the evidence that Indian art seemed to mean ancient Indian art , referring only to that era before imperialism . |
| 6 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 7 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 8 | That was when I got bitten by the rat . ’ |
| 9 | so I got four more , had a look round thought I saw it , but Traygo was heaving I tried to park by the erm garden centre , but to not only were there people all parked there , there was a great articulated lorry delivering stuff , so you went in and you could n't even then get out , go and park further up |
| 10 | Com , coming out the back tell me how just as I 'd gone by the door and er |
| 11 | I felt dirtied by the corruption of pimps , yet I would soon be free of them for I had just one more job to do , and then I would be loosed to the consolations of Masquerade and to the joys of the South Pacific 's winds . |
| 12 | I felt honoured by the kindness of one or two of your congregation , who happen to be members of the committee , in having written to assure me that I would receive a speedy and unanimous Call , if I would only consent to accept it . |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
| 14 | The last advertisement I saw issued by the Lord Chancellor 's Department stipulated that ‘ candidates must be below the age of 60 and preference is normally given to those under 50 . ’ |
| 15 | Over a cup of tea in the departure lounge he asked about the red rose I had placed by the wall , and so I told him of the red , white and blue wreath at Bayeux , of the other red roses on the graves of the crew , and of the ‘ Peace ’ rose which we had brought from England . |
| 16 | Indeed , I recalled the Government 's commitment to ‘ work towards ’ the quality that we were studying , and could not understand exactly what I had envisaged by the notion of working towards the condition of being alive rather than dead . |