Example sentences of "was [verb] by [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in school activities Ernest was energetic and successful , twice he ran away from home before the Kansas City Star was joined by him as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 2 | Was stripped by him of a number of important contracts . |
| 3 | William Whewell in Cambridge was consulted by him over nomenclature , and took a great interest in his work , especially in his unease about the atomic theory with its inert and massy billiard-balls . |
| 4 | The museum began as a purely private collection by Gian Giacomo Poldi-Pezzoli in the last half of the nineteenth-century and was given by him to the city when he died in 1879 . |
| 5 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 6 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ At the time I left I was regarded by everyone as a failure , ’ said Francis on the eve of the Coca-Cola Cup tie with Rangers . |
| 8 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 9 | The match was regarded by us as a little bit special , because their amalgamation of players between two places five miles apart seemed faintly dishonest . |
| 10 | My suggestion to Angus , while we were dishwashing after the battle , that maybe his food could have been injected somehow with a substance that even now could be working away to the detriment of everyone 's health was received by him with frosty amusement . |
| 11 | Tracy , of Derwent Street , Darlington , yesterday recovering from her ordeal , said she was walking by herself to the video shop when she heard the car racing up the alley . |
| 12 | In the same year Giovanni Animuccia ( C. 1500–1571 ) , who succeeded Palestrina as master of the Cappella Giuliana in 1555 and was succeeded by him in 1571 , described his First Book of Masses as composed ‘ seconda la forma del Concilio di Trento ’ , and Vincenzo Ruffo ( c. 1510–1587 ) of Milan Cathedral explained in the dedication of his book of Masses ‘ according to the Milan rite ’ ( 1570 ) that he had composed them on Borromeo 's instructions ‘ ex sancti tridentini Concilii decreto ’ . |
| 13 | Obviously he could n't talk to the police , and it would suit his book better if Vecchi was caught by someone outside his own organisation . |
| 14 | The crucifixion was considered by them to be a unique event not subject to repetition . |
| 15 | The rise in the share of fixed investment , from 19 per cent of GDP in 1955 to 33 per cent in 1961 , was paralleled by one in the share of ( pre-tax ) gross profit incomes , up from 31 to 39 per cent . |
| 16 | After it was all over there was another strange and thrilling event when a car whisked me to the News at Ten studios where I was interviewed by someone in Leeds . |
| 17 | Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis . |
| 18 | However a set of terms arrives in a particular document , it is likely that at some stage it was prepared by someone with some degree of legal knowledge . |
| 19 | On the day of her resignation , the immortal line , ‘ It 's a funny old world , was fed by him to the press and television at his final unattributable lobby briefing at Downing Street . |
| 20 | Correct grammar was seen by him as part of the structures of authority ( such as respect for elders , for standards of cleanliness , for discipline in schools ) which in recent decades had fallen into decline . |
| 21 | Therefore , informing consciences on the evil social consequences of divorce was seen by them to be of a similar standing to informing the consciences of catholic lay people on the sanctity and indissolubility of Christian marriage . |
| 22 | She turned the heavy , white porcelain door knob and pushed gently , then switched off the torch in case she was seen by someone at the back of the house , and entered the bedroom . |
| 23 | Have a look at that , I mean , it would have been better if Jemma was here , because I do n't want to criticise , I mean , I used Jemma 's because it was actually probably the best one that was done by anyone in the group . |
| 24 | In the present case , the primary argument of the revenue has been that the repayment of sums paid by Woolwich was made by them on a voluntary basis , i.e. that the payment was repaid ex gratia . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) … in relation to an institution in respect of which a payment falls to be made under section 58(2) above any reference in this Act to a depositor 's protected deposit is a reference to the liability of the institution to him in respect of — ( a ) the principal amount of each sterling deposit which was made by him with a United Kingdom office of the institution before the making of the administration order and which under the terms on which it was made is or becomes due or payable while the order is in force ; and ( b ) accrued interest on any such deposit up to the time when it is or becomes due and payable as aforesaid ; but so that the total liability of the institution to him in respect of such deposits does not exceed £20,000 . |
| 26 | No reference of any kind was made by anyone to George Brown 's ill-advised remarks . |
| 27 | The lights changed and he was pushed by someone behind him . |
| 28 | She barely mouthed the word , but already , as if she was possessed by something beyond her control , her hands were reaching up to touch the black curl of his hair , agonisingly shy as she felt the clean , silky texture beneath her fingers . |
| 29 | It was bought by the first buyers for the purpose of reselling in smaller quantities to be compounded into food for cattle and poultry and was resold by them for compounding into pig and poultry food . |
| 30 | It 's not known with any degree of certainty , erm , there was some indication by someone writing at the end of the last century , that it was written by someone in the time of the Queen Elizabeth , hence , perhaps it was God Save The Queen . |