Example sentences of "was [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She 'd almost started out , but she was stopped by a touch on her arm . |
| 5 | It was stopped by a passenger , Mr. Leonard Tofield , of Elmers End Road , who strained his wrist applying the hand brake . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I was stopped by a catch fence at the field which undoubtedly saved me . ’ |
| 9 | He was stopped by the snout of Shamlou 's pistol , jammed hard under his chin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 5 µl of a solution containing 1 M β-mercaptoethanol and 1.5 M sodium acetate . |
| 12 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of ice cold phosphate . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The reaction was stopped by the addition of 11 N HCLO 4 and the cells were centrifuged at 4000 g , 10 minutes . |
| 15 | It was started in 1930 , but work was stopped by the Depression . |
| 16 | She was stopped by the man behind the desk , who had no difficulty in recognising her . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 19 | Blake wanted to go and help , but was stopped by the Doctor . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Long before she reached the place , the car was stopped by the military . |
| 22 | When Part II to Schedule 12 was amended by the Building Societies ( Investigation of Complaints ) Order 1990 ( S.I . |
| 23 | The decline of the natural jet industry was hastened by the invention of an artificial substitute , ebonite or vulcanite , made by exposing india-rubber and sulphur to intense heat . |
| 24 | Both Bauthumleys then were closely involved in the emergence of Nonconformity in Leicester , a process which was hastened by the action of the forces attempting to achieve its eradication . |
| 25 | This division between ‘ core ’ and ‘ peripheral ’ workers was hastened by the concentration of redundancies , from 1979 to 1981 , among male manual workers . |
| 26 | As we have seen , the move towards a more considered view of the curriculum was hastened by the initiative of central Government , responding to a widely held disenchantment with educational performance . |
| 27 | However in the past few days Hanley has come through a series of rigorous tests , and his return was hastened by the absence of Andy Goodway , who broke a finger at Headingley last Saturday . |
| 28 | His mother bought the property in 1625 and the family move into it was hastened by an outbreak of the plague in London . |
| 29 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 30 | Catering that had been so under threat in the later seventies suddenly attracted new importance ; indeed , the single Manchester Pullman that looked almost certain to be a casualty of further standardisation in the eighties was joined by a bevy of Pullmans if only Pullman service on HSTs and Mark 3s . |