Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | When weddings were weddings , and the scullery maid would faint if she were seen by her ladyship in the wrong part of the house not attending to her duties , there were rules of etiquette and runic codes to cover every contingency . |
| 2 | Nor would Germany , if she were attacked by France alone , obtain more than the benevolent neutrality of Austria-Hungary . |
| 3 | Mandy Winston who claimed she was sacked by Oldham Crompton Batteries because she was pregnant has been awarded £5,798 by a tribunal . |
| 4 | SOPHIE B. HAWKINS landed her first big break after she was sacked by pop rival Bryan Ferry . |
| 5 | Once she had admitted the hope , she was inundated by whole floods of desire ; the project took life in her mind , the trees grew leaves , the cathedrals grew towers and arches , the river flowed beneath its bridges . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank Heavens for William , ’ she has since said as it meant she could now quite properly forsake the pills she was proffered by arguing that she did not want to risk physical or mental deformity in the baby she was carrying . |
| 7 | She was joined by leading actor Robert Downey Jnr and wife Debbie in Leicester Square , London . |
| 8 | In 1826 she was joined by her sisters-in-law , Sarah and Ann , who had just lost their mother ; the poor relief ‘ Extras ’ list granted them 1s. or 18d. a week for at least the next three years . |
| 9 | With her sharp pen and keen observation she was joined by Karl von Wiegand for the first Atlantic crossing voyage . |
| 10 | Presently she was joined by Margaret Lacey . |
| 11 | She was joined by Betsy M. Bryan , Alexander Badawy Assistant Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at The Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , who since 1984 has been collecting material on the position of women in New Kingdom society . |
| 12 | She took me up to see her room , which she had to herself until she was joined by another-middle aged woman without children . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was joined by lithographer Lisa Rhodes from Barlaston . |
| 15 | As trade increased she was joined by the GLENALBYN and the MARTELLO , the latter being the first iron paddle steamer owned by the company . |
| 16 | Caroline Little 's first recreational class in Rowlands Castle village hall led to many more in the surrounding area of HAMPSHIRE especially when she was joined by Anne Locke and Sarah Smith ( both now living and teaching Medau in France ) and Wendy Middleton . |
| 17 | She was joined by Maxine Finch from Cheltenham . |
| 18 | She was moved by his address : not so much by the declaration of the reformed and Catholic nature of the Church of England , nor by his condemnation of racialism , nor by his challenge to the State to give the Church more liberty to follow its vocation in worship ; but by his gratitude at the growing longing within the Church for a deeper life of prayer . |
| 19 | She was moved by her insight and , when he looked up at her again , saw how hurt he seemed , how full of pain his eyes were . |
| 20 | She delighted in visitors and she was moved by all their woes and troubles . |
| 21 | Although she was treated by a vet , it was to no avail . |
| 22 | In 1977 she elected to go to a nursing home in Regent 's Park where she was treated by Dr Maurice Lipsedge , a psychiatrist who , by pure coincidence , cared for Diana a decade later when she resolved to fight her bulimia . |
| 23 | Blanche found the gesture patronising , symbolising the way she was treated by many of her superiors at the Metropolitan Police or creatures from the male world of spies . |
| 24 | The fact that the way you looked told you where to sit annoyed her as well as the way she was treated by thinner people . |
| 25 | It was not even as noble and hopeless as tilting at windmills ; she was blindfolded by not understanding and whirled towards every sound — Lucy 's voice , laugh , profile , light footfall : all worn by unknowing everyday strangers . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In old age she was troubled by deafness and played little active part in her husband 's later political career . |
| 29 | She was troubled by the contrast between Edwin Frere , ice-dancer , and this submissive comforter . |
| 30 | Speaking in fluent English , she even raised a laugh in court , as she was grilled by defence barrister Anthony Arlidge , QC . |