Example sentences of "be [verb] for [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | An optional helicopter ride down the canyon can be arranged for you by your escort . |
| 2 | As he turned back the coverlet of the bed where he must sleep alone , Frere consoled himself with the thought that what he was incapable of accomplishing himself might be accomplished for him by time and that providential hand , of which , in his earnest efforts outside the home , he was the faithful instrument . |
| 3 | The photographer would be waiting for her by the exhibition stand in twenty minutes or so . |
| 4 | The Jews would be waiting for him by now . |
| 5 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 6 | The common law provides quite an armoury of such principles , and new applications can be found for them by a bold judge . |
| 7 | As Thomas Reid remarked , in a passage that could be mistaken for one by the twentieth-century Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin : |
| 8 | He was so modest , reticent , and reserved that his paper on his voyage of 1880 , given at the Royal Geographical Society , had to be read for him by the secretary . |
| 9 | Any goal of mine which I have allowed to be chosen for me by others , even if I think of it as an end in itself , can only be serving as a means to something else which my private test does confirm as wanted for its own sake . |