Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this figure can mislead , as was pointed out by many people as soon as the Fleischmann and Pons paper saw the light of day , and by some , at least , of those who had sight of their DOE application . |
| 2 | He had to make his way past people converging on the church and was pointed out by several . |
| 3 | The result was a system in which the government never changed hands , but instead was carried out by those who could be trusted to look after the affairs of state . |
| 4 | After this initial rebuild , further work was carried out by several resident archbishops , most particularly San Carlo Borromeo who used his favourite architect Pelligrino Tibaldi ( Il Pellegrini ) . |
| 5 | Then I drove into his space well then somebody else came and drove in behind me and the car in front then was sort of , oh yeah , then somebody else came and reversed in in front of him , so the car in front it was across the drive was boxed in by this time , I did n't box him in I just |
| 6 | I was turned down by all the universities on my UCCA application form , because I had received a bad report from my headmaster at Downside School who said I took drugs , which was true , but was also an admission made to him in confidence . |
| 7 | It was also of course , we were put forward for objective two , this was turned down by these two commissioners simply because they sliced off two percent of the application . |
| 8 | ’ He , too , was drowned out by some Labour jeering . |
| 9 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 10 | After the dispute , the deal was called off by both parties . |
| 11 | Alan the Reddler was woken up by all the greetings : |
| 12 | It is understood that Farrington Stead was set up by former employees of Barlow Clowes . |
| 13 | This view first became popular during and as a consequence of the Scientific Revolution that took place mainly during the seventeenth century and that was brought about by such great pioneering scientists as Galileo and Newton . |
| 14 | Almondsbury were back on level terms two minutes after the break when Storey was allowed to centre , and although Tony Price cleared off the line , it was followed up by another player to hammer in . |
| 15 | His pleading was cut off by another painful jab of the gun muzzle and by the snarling , thick voice from behind him . |
| 16 | ‘ They thought I would n't be quite so embarrassed if my bra was whipped off by some poor old geezer who was past it . |
| 17 | But support had been no more than patchy until it was taken up by such a strong party group on the eve of electoral victory . |
| 18 | Wilkes , as a symbol of defiant resistance to government , was taken up by all these groups . |
| 19 | A Ramsay ! ’ he shouted , and the slogan was taken up by those behind in yelling threat . |
| 20 | Allon advocated the use of chanting but this was taken up by few chapels ; the much greater growth lay in the use of hymns . |
| 21 | But Stone Bassett bit the dust , the case against the development was taken up by some of the highest paid planners in the land and sounded a massive victory for conservationists . |
| 22 | ( Italian opera had already appeared in Munich in 1653 , very soon after the end of the Thirty Years War ; indeed it was taken up by several German courts during the 1650S . ) |
| 23 | There was not one ship permanently in command , the particular ship in most direct contact with the enemy was in command until the leading position was taken over by another ship which then assumed command as well as action . |
| 24 | He died very soon afterwards , and this young daughter was taken in by some poor people . |
| 25 | I was thrown out by some irate trendy who kept muttering something about royalties . |
| 26 | I think it 's understandable if Trevor was put out by this favoured treatment Sinatra got . |
| 27 | The whole mass dropped into the pit and a moment later the big slab was snatched up by several dozen tentacles and slammed into place , leaving a number of thrashing limbs trapped around the edge . |
| 28 | The road was too rough for one thought to rest long in mind before it was cannoned out by another . |
| 29 | Whereas John Smith , a member of the Long Parliament actually was beaten up by those same Royalists troops , so erm because of his parliamentary sympathies . |
| 30 | I was coming across but I was held up by this lot . ’ |