Example sentences of "[vb pp] they by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 2 | That 's for the We actually calculated them by using the unit quantity |
| 3 | They could still manage Abends , wenn wir schlafen gehen , taught them by the nuns as a party piece , and then , indeed , they sounded like angels , though angels without much grasp of the words after the second line . |
| 4 | And , however bad their crimes against us were , they always justified them by saying ours were worse . |
| 5 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 6 | There is a chief superintendent in RUC Headquarters whose sole responsibility is community relations , and no complaints were made about the level of managerial support given them by Easton 's senior officers , something unusual for ordinary policemen and women in the RUC , and particularly so compared to community policing sections in other forces ( Grimshaw and Jefferson 1987 ) . |
| 7 | In 1896 , for example , the year in which Radnor Park Congregational Chapel in Folkestone spent £7,000 and Albion Church in Ashton-under-Lyne spent £50,000 on new buildings , Congregationalists at Rothbury in Northumberland built a new chapel for £1,400 but they were fortunate in having the land given them by Lord Armstrong , the arms magnate . |
| 8 | The desired religion therefore , must be acceptable , on the one hand to those who follow it because their belief is founded on logic-induced conviction , and on the other hand to those who come to believe , because tentative faith has been given them by others and who have reached conviction through experience . |
| 9 | Chrissie admits that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claims that she was given them by Fred , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short handed . |
| 10 | Chrissie admitted that these came from the store restaurant 's stocks , but claimed that she was given them by Fred — , the chef , in return for her helping out over her lunch break in the kitchen , which was short-handed . |
| 11 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 12 | Between late July and early October 1936 the rebels drove home the advantage given them by Franco 's agreements with Mussolini and Hitler . |
| 13 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
| 14 | The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses . |
| 15 | Voters depend much less on the cues and guidance given them by party workers and rely instead on television . |
| 16 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 17 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 18 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 19 | Whatever the meaning for those twelve disciples on that short mission ( and the Spirit may well have come upon them temporarily as he did upon the Old Testament of God to equip them for a special purpose ) , it is hard to mistake the shadow this event casts towards the time of the Church , when men sent out by Jesus ( ‘ sent one' is the root meaning of the word ‘ apostle ’ ) would be equipped by the Spirit given them by Jesus , for carrying out Jesus ' own mission in the world . |
| 20 | This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers . |
| 21 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 22 | The courts determined that the commissioners had exercised properly the wide discretion given them by Parliament and rejected the case . |
| 23 | The winter had caught them by surprise . |
| 24 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |
| 25 | She had not ruined them by child-bearing . |
| 26 | A COMPANY is threatening to axe half its workforce unless it is paid more than £20,000 claimed to be owed them by Liverpool City Council . |
| 27 | God has led them to believe it was rational , but now apparently he has cheated them by unfairly slipping in a mystery . |
| 28 | He could have written them by hand but this would have defeated their objective . |
| 29 | King John , they said , had granted them by charter the right to pasture their animals and to take housebote and firebote in Lonsdale Forest without payment , but they had lost the charter during the disturbances at the end of his reign . |
| 30 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |