Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] by " in BNC.
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| 31 | The assembler does not directly offer these facilities , but it is possible to implement them by using other features of BBCBASIC(Z80) . |
| 32 | There 're so many wild oranges on the island that when they 're ripe the boys and girls go out in gangs , pick them by the thousand , squeeze out all the juice and let it ferment in casks until it 's ready for a week-long celebration . |
| 33 | And , however bad their crimes against us were , they always justified them by saying ours were worse . |
| 34 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 35 | ‘ And so , she repaid me by paying a great deal of attention to you tonight , signore . |
| 36 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 37 | An attempt was made to accommodate them by founding a Marxist League , of Socialists and PVO . |
| 38 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 39 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 40 | How did young Bruce become Uncle Bruce , to use the saucy sobriquet given me by my ever ebullient fellow presenter Richard Wyatt . |
| 41 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 42 | Later on I produced a medical certificate , given me by the doctor , stating that my father was ill and that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days of the week I was at home and could help my mother look after him . |
| 43 | Only one of the letters was of any length : like the others it was typewritten , and was labelled by Mr Kronweiser : ‘ Given me by Mrs Hilda Machin , 21 April 1978 . ’ |
| 44 | The transcript had been labelled by Kronweiser , ‘ Given me by Mrs Hilda Machin , 21 April 1978 . ’ |
| 45 | My geraniums ( pelargoniums if you must ) are making a brave show at last in spite of one or two early frosts , and I am delighted that a tiny sprig of gentian given me by a neighbour has four vivid blue flowers . |
| 46 | That was totally unplanned. erm I was told by a friend that there was erm Pebble Mill were going to organise an Environment Project Competition for Great Britain , and they suggested I sent for a form , which I did , and filled it in , and erm to my astonishment a film crew came down and filmed the pond , and later on I was invited with my husband to Pebble Mill to get this award and it was given me by Virginia Mackenna and Bill Waters , and David Bellamy was there , and erm we had a wonderful time . |
| 47 | Do n't imagine you can flatter me by telling me I 'm not really a feminist , because I am , and I find your denials extremely insulting . ’ |
| 48 | She would occasionally reward Thatcherite newspapers , such as the Express , with a gracious , unrevealing interview ; on television , Sir Robin Day and Brian Walden would flatter her by pretending to be tough , and she would flatter them by pretending they were . |
| 49 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 50 | So instead we have made progress by finding partial theories that describe a limited range of happenings and by neglecting other effects or approximating them by certain numbers . |
| 51 | Furthermore , it is more advantageous for management to subscribe shares than to acquire them by transfer , because they may then be entitled to income tax relief pursuant to s574 Taxes Act 1988 if the venture fails . |
| 52 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |
| 53 | Surely these workers are provided with Health and Safety equipment and should they not be made to wear them by someone in authority ? |
| 54 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |
| 55 | Then they connect them by ‘ stoping ’ — digging upwards or downwards in places where the tunnels cut through lodes , in the process dislodging the ore . |
| 56 | Having offended officers by omitting Jacques Soustelle , the most well-known Gaullist advocate of French Algeria , from his first government , de Gaulle appeased them by bringing Soustelle into the government in July . |
| 57 | You may cut the towelling into large squares , and then you can come and be my nurse — and God help you , McAllister , if you hinder me by starting to have fine lady 's vapours . |
| 58 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 59 | Judge them by their product and not their individual personalities . |
| 60 | I judge them by their racial characteristics . |