Example sentences of "he [was/were] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was indifferent to the house , indeed almost disliked the grander parts of it , preferring the fire in the hall where he could drink his dram in company with his dogs as if he were by the croft hearth of his childhood . |
| 2 | It was obvious that power was exerting its hold over him ; he was losing his grip on reality , possessed as he was by the illusion that perestroika was developing widely . ’ |
| 3 | Held back as he was by the fish and his clumsy waders , he finally reached his original crossing point . |
| 4 | Or Hofmannsthal telling Strauss how ‘ delighted and moved he was by the music ’ ? |
| 5 | He was feared as much by the family ( owing to a vicious temper ) as he was by the young men of the district . |
| 6 | Yet in the middle years of the Thatcher government , I recall Sir Geoffrey Howe telling me how impressed he was by the number of letters he was receiving , especially from young people , about the crisis in the third world . |
| 7 | When the Devil was driven from the centre of the Divine Drama , as he was by the medieval scholastics , he resurfaced elsewhere among the superstitious beliefs of medieval Europe , where he remained despite the Reformation . |
| 8 | Absorbed as he was by the sight of a family in grief , a new phenomenon for him , he could not help observing , with some awe , the large number of military men present to testify to their friendship with the dead man . |
| 9 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 10 | Adam 's apparent lack of concern enraged Mike , as hurt by his brother 's treachery as he was by the theft . |
| 11 | Eustace himself offered huge sums for his life but , hated as he was by the men of the Cinque Ports , he was beheaded at once by an old enemy , Stephen of Winchelsea , an incident depicted in a graphic drawing by Matthew Paris [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Before she could follow his movements he was by the coffee-table , the long fingers carefully flattening out the creased pieces of paper she had derisively hurled there . |
| 13 | I think he was crippled by his upbringing just as badly as he was by the car crash . |
| 14 | Lady Selvedge allowed herself to be led on to the platform and was introduced in a short speech by Mark , who found himself unable to think of very much to say about her , confused as he was by the talk of ‘ high principles ’ , cocktail parties , and her former husband 's misdeeds which he remembered having with Sophia and Penelope . |
| 15 | Surrounded as he was by the glamour of the acting world , he could pick and choose from the world 's most beautiful women — women like Marianne , with her lush body and provocative , slanting green eyes . |
| 16 | And erm he was by the way he was the er step erm father in law of the man who erm owned who was the erm building firm er in er er Oh dear they 've gone now . |