Example sentences of "was [vb pp] by a [noun] " 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 | Chapman drove at 50 to 60mph before he was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 10 | She was stopped by a police patrol car . |
| 11 | The crowd began to swell a little and the man was joined by a friend . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was stalked by one small girl who was joined by a boy , until , keeping a distance , a group of silent lint-haired children followed . |
| 14 | Five minutes later , he was joined by a UDA officer who had just been arrested . |
| 15 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 16 | His main challenger , Justice Minister Claudio Martelli ( PSI former deputy secretary-general ) , was joined by a number of senior party colleagues including Rino Formica , the former Finance Minister , and 22 PSI deputies . |
| 17 | One night I was joined by a visitor to Seend , anxious to be of help , Colonel Faithorne , who was some relation of the Bishop of Bath and Wells , and who showed intellectual interests , including a knowledge of Eliot , which I was not to meet again in a soldier until I made the acquaintance in 1974 of my late father-in-law . |
| 18 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 19 | I could just make out the figure of a boy , running from the house on the right , who was joined by a group of people from the other . |
| 20 | The note was uttered by a bricklayer 's labourer at work on a house in the neighbourhood . ’ |
| 21 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 22 | The font window was erected by a bequest in the will of the Rev. G.P. Howes who was Vicar from 1888–99 . |
| 23 | One person on site was taken to the local hospital complaining of eye irritation but was later discharged and the crew of a vessel in the Humber estuary reported exposure to an irritant cloud , but not ill effects were evident when the crew was checked by a doctor . |
| 24 | The total crypt labelling index was calculated by a grid counting method . |
| 25 | One room was heated by a hypocaust , fired from the shop ; the other had a decent pink concrete floor , quarter-round moulding and plastered and painted walls . |
| 26 | It was heated by a stove from which a heavy iron pipe ran up all the way to the roof . |
| 27 | It was heated by a Quebec stove in the kitchen and she cooked with wood on another iron stove , and no cajoling by her widowed son , Joe , was going to make her alter her ways now . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course I 'll take you , ’ Fabia replied without hesitation , and was about to add that she would be on the same flight with her when she was halted by a change in Cara 's expression . |
| 29 | Attempts were made to disperse the stone throwers with a water cannon , but its progress was halted by a barricade ; police trying to clear the obstruction returned fire with stones which had been thrown at them . |
| 30 | A strange apparition was witnessed by a lady about two years ago on a section of track between Barking and Upminster in Essex . |