Example sentences of "[vb past] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the Pacific Plate , bowed , stretched and strained by its westward movement , is moving away from its neighbour — in this case a relatively small fragment of lithosphere known as the Nazca plate . |
| 2 | The dainty Lillian suspended by her toes … the not so dainty Betty endures her first ballet lesson … the amazing dexterity of the Juggling Jennies … and the mind boggling manipulations of the Magic Marys with Angela De Castro |
| 3 | The chick in the burrow below will now be guzzling the partly pre-digested fish food regurgitated by its newly ringed parent . |
| 4 | But the big bonus for Morrissey fans disappointed by his no-shows at June 's Glastonbury festival and the second day of the Madness/Finsbury Park weekend last month is that , on proof of purchase of tickets for either of the cancelled gigs , they can get a £20 discount per ticket for the French trip . |
| 5 | I think they demonstrated by their presence that here at least , there is no plank in the mind ; that a business man 's business today includes these ideological facts , includes dealing with what is in the hearts and minds of men . |
| 6 | They watched among the crowd as Eachuinn Odhar was lifted ashore unconscious , and Hector , under David Beaton 's supervision ; and over a hundred others , to be carried or helped by their keening womenfolk up to castle or clachan . |
| 7 | It is not caused by the absence of encouragement or love , nor prevented or helped by their presence . |
| 8 | Normally it takes three or four years to complete the apprenticeship , but Reay helped by his ten year 's experience of weaving and considerable determination , achieved it in half the time . |
| 9 | He has made 12 trips to Eastern Europe and helped by his Romanian wife Fanica , who he married in November 1990 , has now mastered the language . |
| 10 | Allen said he agreed not to bring the children to his house and abided by her rules , including only visiting the children in the hallway of Farrow 's flat . |
| 11 | As he knelt by its head he cursed the men on either side who could have been responsible for such a war . |
| 12 | Ramsey knelt by his bedside and Garbett blessed him . |
| 13 | Right now well all I , I ex I knew that you were having meetings about it so really all , all I need you to do is actually get this validated by your group and if there were any change significant changes you wanted to make then to come back to me and David with that those suggestions but erm it struck me that th the thing hangs together quite well . |
| 14 | Moreover , anyone categorised by his GP as chronically sick should be covered , as the list of prescribed illnesses is outdated . |
| 15 | tenderly cajoled by his wife |
| 16 | Nothing could give us more pleasure than the sharing of a discovery in art and the process of seeing it transformed by my adjoining restoration studio and framing workshop into its full beauty . |
| 17 | The police , still clustered by their vans , were not watching out for trouble . |
| 18 | Rolle died at the height of the plague , but his reputation as a loved spiritual counsellor survived him — probably furthered by his disciple William Stopes who seems to have been a young religious and acted as Rolle 's literary executor after his death . |
| 19 | After the first day , his manner had thawed , and , no doubt refreshed by his dip in the river , he was in good enough spirits when I had my talk with him . |
| 20 | And Eden , who wanted the leadership of the Tory Party , offered no support to the movement triggered by his resignation . |
| 21 | ‘ Try this hackneyed line on some other swooning female , ’ she retorted unevenly , ruthlessly flattening the small leap of desire triggered by his husky words , starting to push her way past him . |
| 22 | She tried to pull away , but as she moved her head it brought her closer to his mouth , and when his lips touched hers she was lost , caught up in an explosion triggered by his touch . |
| 23 | Over the next twenty-four hours a flurry of selling , mainly triggered by our circular , sent the shares of Garth Enterprises down by 40p , and by another 50p on the following day . |
| 24 | Only this time the car did n't stop or turn but drove on , slithering a little on the loose gravel , until it stopped by their front door . |
| 25 | He stopped by their side , and leaning against a tree rested until he had got his breath back . |
| 26 | Property companies keep going impelled by their momentum and the opportunities that are offered to them . |
| 27 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 28 | Prior to describing his method , and that perfected by his brother John , it is necessary to examine in detail the state of the art that led to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century experiments , culminating in the most celebrated of the Hunterian ‘ mummies ’ , Mrs Maria Van Butchell . |
| 29 | In his life he had risen from being a poor farm boy to become the wealthy entrepreneurial head of a vast business conglomerate , all of it created by his own acumen , and had established a dynasty which still ranks high on the world 's ladder of wealth and social standing . |
| 30 | Von Frisch initially thought that the dance merely alerted the bees to the presence of a new source , which they found by its scent . |