Example sentences of "was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giolitti lost power , and his government was pilloried by the socialists who whipped up public opinion in their newspaper , Avanti , edited by a young man with a future , Benito Mussolini . |
| 2 | As a new-boy , he had already been labelled as the MP who found himself driving seven miles the wrong way on the M6 until he was stopped by a patrol and banned for six months . |
| 3 | There was a red light up , and he was stopped by a policeman as he reached the opposite pavement and duly asked for the appropriate number of marks . |
| 4 | Trying to get in the ground the right way , I was stopped by a riot policeman 's shield and shouted at in Dutch : only the fact that I could reply in Dutch saved a potentially ugly misunderstanding . |
| 5 | She 'd almost started out , but she was stopped by a touch on her arm . |
| 6 | It was stopped by a passenger , Mr. Leonard Tofield , of Elmers End Road , who strained his wrist applying the hand brake . |
| 7 | Along the route he was stopped by a dwarf and led into the mountain , where he was told to empty his grain sacks and fill them with gold . |
| 8 | I saw one forlorn notice saying " Sergeants ' Mess " , and was about to explore the rest of the camp when I was stopped by a shout . |
| 9 | ‘ I was stopped by a catch fence at the field which undoubtedly saved me . ’ |
| 10 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 11 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 12 | He was stopped by the snout of Shamlou 's pistol , jammed hard under his chin . |
| 13 | Incubation was continued for 10 min , after which the reaction was stopped by the addition of 1 µl of 0.5 M EDTA , 1 µg of carrier tRNA , 3 µl of 3 M potassium acetate and 70 µl of ethanol . |
| 14 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 5 µl of a solution containing 1 M β-mercaptoethanol and 1.5 M sodium acetate . |
| 15 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of ice cold phosphate . |
| 16 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 75 µl of saturated sodium carbonate and the optical density was read at 580 nm ( Cobas Bioanalyser , Roche ) . |
| 17 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 11 N HCLO 4 and the cells were centrifuged at 4000 g , 10 minutes . |
| 18 | It was started in 1930 , but work was stopped by the Depression . |
| 19 | She was stopped by the man behind the desk , who had no difficulty in recognising her . |
| 20 | The first Clash gig in Belfast was stopped by the authorities . |
| 21 | Er , Mr brought slavery into it , but no one had more slaves than India and the Moguls and what about suttee where widows were burned alive on the funeral pyres of their husbands and still leap and still the system was des er was stopped by the English Just a moment the door was opened by Mr talking about slavery we do n't shut it on |
| 22 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 23 | Blake wanted to go and help , but was stopped by the Doctor . |
| 24 | He realised his mistake when he was stopped by the gates of Parliament Buildings at Stormont and turned back . |
| 25 | At least 40 people were killed in Bamako on 22 March after a student demonstration was stopped by the security forces and rioting broke out . |
| 26 | Long before she reached the place , the car was stopped by the military . |
| 27 | He was stopped by the police outside the Bakers Arms pub . |
| 28 | ‘ When he was stopped by the police at the roadside and given the breath test he was convinced he was going to fail and lose his licence . |
| 29 | In the summer he was stopped by the police for overloading his builder 's van . |
| 30 | Erm , and I mean , I I was just cringing after that , hearing all these , minor horror stories coming coming out , and then to cap it all , one little girl put her hand up and said erm , my daddy was stopped by the police once for not wearing his seat-belt . |