Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge nothing by its appearance . |
| 2 | The young mouth the old words but they mean nothing by them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then they connect them by ‘ stoping ’ — digging upwards or downwards in places where the tunnels cut through lodes , in the process dislodging the ore . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Judge them by their product and not their individual personalities . |
| 7 | I judge them by their racial characteristics . |
| 8 | ‘ Then judge them by their acts , Magnificence , and do not listen to what they say . ’ |
| 9 | It 's what you judge them by , if you set performance . |
| 10 | To make the most of fragrant flowers such as these sweetly scented golden and white freesias and white lilies , display them by massing the flowers closely together in side-by-side containers . |
| 11 | We judge ourselves by the time from call-out to getting the problem fixed which is an average of 63 minutes , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Never judge someone by the way they look . |
| 13 | ‘ Please send me by return the length of the holes at St Andrews as I intend to lay out a course on the common next weekend , ’ wrote another . |
| 14 | Then if you feel it is appropriate , address them to their homes and send them by registered mail . |
| 15 | Send them by Friday February 28 to Echo Memories , The Northern Echo , Features Dept , Priestgate , Darlington , DL1 1NF . |
| 16 | The rules of the game are that each person is allowed to turn over two cards and , if they are the same , to withdraw them and place them by their side . |
| 17 | The turnpikes can be reasonably considered the leading edge of road improvement , although at no time did ordinary roads not outnumber them by five to one . |
| 18 | After cleaning out gutters ( or fitting new gutters ) , test them by pouring water into them ( or use a hosepipe ) |
| 19 | People in the street , who knew that I was engaged in negotiations , would come up to me , grab me by my lapels and say , ‘ Get an agreement , we beg you . |
| 20 | While Marx rejects needs as the units in terms of which economic phenomena should be analysed , he could in principle simply replace them by some other property of individuals , and found a theory on this trait instead . |
| 21 | Using the notion that is particularly associated with representative government , of a new minister with explicit policy commitments , attention has been given to the pressures that frustrate such commitments , or replace them by commitments derived from other sources . |
| 22 | If someone said oh we do n't want two pipes it 's a bit messy , take them out and replace them by one that had the same resistance , that lets the same amount of water through , what would you replace those by ? |
| 23 | If we replace them by , instead of those we 're just going to have one resistor . |
| 24 | There was unrest in some twenty-six English and Welsh towns on 20 October , the day of George 's coronation , by which time the new monarch had already begun to turn out the old Tory ministers and replace them by Whigs . |
| 25 | They warm them by pressing them against brood patches , areas of skin naked of feathers which a bird may develop specially for the breeding season or have permanently on its breast concealed by the long feathers growing around them . |
| 26 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 27 | somebody grab you by the neck take your jewellery . |
| 28 | I love you , I need you , I want you by my side for all eternity . |
| 29 | I mean I said ‘ I want something by next Thursday ’ and , of course , they were n't there or the papers were n't done . |
| 30 | When my daughter is of age , that is different ; if you still want her by then . |