Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwy was out on the branch almost within reach of the eggs when we were caught redhanded by the farmer on horseback … |
| 2 | However incompatible the roles of agents for the old order , exporters of revolutionary socialism and pillars of international capitalism , they were tailored to fit by the antipathy of such anti-Jewish hostility . |
| 3 | Furthermore , many of the women and girls working at fruit-picking and jam-making were related to railway workers at nearby Cambridge Station and were brought to work by the 8.20 train from Cambridge in the morning and taken back home by the 6.34 in the evening . |
| 4 | In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's . |
| 5 | The reasons have been strikingly depicted by Cole and Postgate ( 1961:306 ) : The appalling sanitary conditions were accompanied by an increase in destitution and pauperism as people left the countryside , or were forced to leave by the Enclosure Acts , and sought jobs in the manufacturing towns . |
| 6 | Five Hull defenders were left trailing by the youngster 's electrifying pace and change of direction as he scorched his way to the line . |
| 7 | Sharon 's heartbroken family and drink-drive campaigners were left devastated by the lenient sentence . |
| 8 | Investigations of this kind reveal something of the structure of poverty by indicating those who were kept going by the poor rate , the only eighteenth-century tax which was redistributive . |