Example sentences of "she was [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As trade increased she was joined by the GLENALBYN and the MARTELLO , the latter being the first iron paddle steamer owned by the company . |
| 3 | Although she was treated by a vet , it was to no avail . |
| 4 | She was reprimanded by an indignant Jacques Delors who said that fraud is a ‘ phony controversy ’ and a ‘ distraction ’ from important matters , like the ‘ real ’ issue of economic and monetary union . |
| 5 | Ms Foster put forward the idea of a similar investigation for plant and animal biotechnology because she was troubled by the unnecessary secrecy and seeming insensitivity of government departments to issues other than the narrow technical one of safety . |
| 6 | She was troubled by the contrast between Edwin Frere , ice-dancer , and this submissive comforter . |
| 7 | She found no sexual pleasure in going to bed with strangers , but , in contrast with the rest of her week , she was comforted by the feeling of being thought desirable , of having someone 's arms around her , of warm cuddling beneath the quilt . |
| 8 | HOLDING COURT : Suzanne revealing that she was kissed by a judge |
| 9 | Soon she was recognised by the group as their specialist on facts and figures and formal press officer . |
| 10 | She was pushed into a big office where she was faced by a rather handsome Obersturmfuhrer . |
| 11 | She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray 's companion . |
| 12 | She was accepted by the polytechnic a year later . |
| 13 | Dr Higgs , now a consultant at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead , said she was heartened by the number of support groups springing up to help victims of child abuse . |
| 14 | She was recognized by a grand national assembly at Scone as heiress to the throne . |
| 15 | This was perceptive and she was rewarded by a brief display of her daughter 's old impulsiveness , Sally-Anne kissing her mother fervently on the cheek before they joined Papa in the drawing-room . |
| 16 | She was rewarded by the pleasure which suffused Jacob 's face . |
| 17 | These swims were mainly in municipal baths , and she was supported by the community singing of the hundreds of people who came to see her perform . |
| 18 | For thirty days and nights she did not sleep , and throughout she was supported by the bird , who sang to her as well to rally her spirits — and to keep her awake . |
| 19 | She was supported by the parents of Lance Bombardier Stephen Cummins as the gun carriage bearing his body moved through Porchester near Portsmouth . |
| 20 | She was niggled by a lingering doubt that she might have played her cards badly . |
| 21 | She stopped a few feet away , so that she was hidden by the curtains , and fixed her gaze unblinkingly on the long black Mercedes that was heading sedately up the driveway . |
| 22 | At dawn , in the lull when even the snipers seem to sleep , Marina was dreaming of death when she was awoken by the screams of a 23-year-old woman , Ziba Islamovic . |
| 23 | And then , as the pale light of morning crept in through the window , she was awoken by the feel of his mouth on her breasts . |
| 24 | She hated the idea of it , but she was spurred by the thought of Amy and by the phone call from Gilbert Racy . |
| 25 | Rourke was watching her , and she was disturbed by the uncanny perception lurking in the blue gaze . |
| 26 | Their mother Audrey , who lived with her husband Corpral William Marshall at the barracks , said she was alerted by a kitten crying . |
| 27 | Presently , she was alerted by the sound of hushed male voices in the yard below . |
| 28 | These were small details now , swallowed up in the joy of knowing that she was loved by the man she had loved silently for so long . |
| 29 | Born in Chongqing in 1946 , the daughter of a revolutionary martyr , she was adopted by the family of Ye Jianying , one of the famous 10 marshals of the People 's Liberation Army . |
| 30 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |