Example sentences of "[vb base] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always sleep by the guns , he said , and never let the men dig bolt holes , lest they become too attached to them when the bombs begin to fall . |
| 2 | ‘ Sleep by the fire , you , I 'm going to bed . ’ |
| 3 | When I 'm really unhappy I eat chocolate and raw bacon and sleep by the fridge . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Interesting place you 've got here , Mr Blufton , ’ commented the sergeant politely , awestruck by the amount of dosh the man had to afford such a place . |
| 5 | The statement cited the Dec. 2 massacre by the Army of 16 peasants , and the wounding of 24 others , in the town of Santiago Atitlán 70 km west of the capital Guatemala City , as " an illustration of escalating violence that continues to mark out this country " . |
| 6 | Names are entered into the suspects index by the Home Office , MI5 , Interpol , HM Customs and Excise and the Foreign Office . |
| 7 | I take the point Chairman , and , and suggest by the criticism we will try and get more explicit detail in the future . |
| 8 | The Deterrers were gradually drawn into the relentless escalation of the weapons race by the logic of their beliefs . |
| 9 | A slight body shift by the defender is undoubtedly the best form of defence against a strong punch from a much bigger and heavier opponent , though the defender should always have a backup block ready , in case the attack is only diverted , not completely sent off course . |
| 10 | Once you 're at the summit descend by the more popular Miners ' Path which will take you down across the causeway over Llyn Llydaw and finishes up at Pen-y-pass at the top of the Llanberis Pass . |
| 11 | Yet others , living in the rain forests inland , rake up fallen vegetation into mounds fifteen feet high which keep their eggs warm by the heat of decay . |
| 12 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 13 | The lowest line shows what happens if you deflate by the rise in NHS salaries and prices . |
| 14 | It is well known that trees grow by the addition of rings , usually ( though not always ) annually . |
| 15 | The basis of dendrochronology lies in the fact that , in temperature climates where there is a contrast between the seasons , trees grow by the addition of an annual ring . |
| 16 | That I had suffered neither Radiotherapy nor Chemotherapy made my fraudulent feeling grow by the minute . |
| 17 | Heath has proposed an alternative ‘ fullerene-road ’ scheme in which fullerenes are formed in the size range of 30–40 carbon atoms and grow by the addition of small carbon radicals . |
| 18 | I shall hide until nightfall and eat the raspberries that grow by the stream . |
| 19 | Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times . |
| 20 | But the breed 's origins are uncertain and the theories are numerous — that they are almost directly descended from the wild aurochs , for example ( the claim of many a breed ! ) or are at least of Bos primigenius stock like the Podolians of the steppes , or are descended from large , long-horned continental cattle imported several centuries ago ( some say by the Romans ) , or were imported 3,000–4,000 years ago , or came from Ireland where they were an ancient indigenous type , or were developed from Dutch and old English breeds before the eighteenth century , or must have Norse origins because of their coat colour and pattern . |
| 21 | Such cats can become a real problem if their rigid daily routine is upset — say by the death of an elderly owner . |
| 22 | They say by the end of the year NeXT and Microsoft will probably be the only companies not part of COSE . |
| 23 | IN THESE PAGES I want to discuss the possibility that the goal of theoretical physics might be achieved in the not-too-distant future : say by the end of the century . |
| 24 | With other forms of " numbering " , say by the letters of the alphabet , you could still not guarantee to fill all the pages . |
| 25 | Like you say by the time the sun comes round ? |
| 26 | say by the way Jim you could have fixed that boiler take everyone off the pipes |
| 27 | So , say as , say erm , say by the time you 're you 're probably , mm , I du n no , thirty . |
| 28 | Their jobs typically appear by the dozens in the help-wanted sections of daily newspapers . |
| 29 | ‘ It has n't been made public , but the kidnappers have said they 'll kill the girl if they do n't have what they want by the eleventh of October . ’ |
| 30 | To acknowledge this rule should thus have the double advantage of eliminating any appearance of royal partiality in selecting a Prime Minister on these occasions , and of ensuring that the parties obtain the leaders they want by the methods they want . |